Fredrick Nwabufo
Why APC crisis is good for Nigeria
All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the cusp of an implosion. The crisis in the party has reached a frightening crescendo. It has been a gradual but steady plummet for the party since its 2015 unanticipated triumph. I believe, the APC is in the thrall of a curse – the success curse.
It’s a security strategy to involve Miyetti Allah in Amotekun
As I said in a column in June 2019, security is everybody’s business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged into one fist in the pursuit of peace. In fact, it imperils security if any stakeholder to the peace is “quarantined” and stereotyped.
The northern elite created the rampaging bandits
A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) put the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria to 13.5 million – as of 2018. An unimpressive mass of this number comes from Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and other northern states.
After Orji Kalu, Joshua Dariye, is President Buhari’s corruption war still against opposition?
On June 12, 2018, Joshua Dariye, former Plateau state governor and senator, huddled in the dock awaiting the verdict of fate for pilfering N1.6 billion public funds at a high court of the federal capital territory (FCT).
Experts: ‘Fake news’ fuelling ethno-religious crisis in Nigeria
Misinformation risks worsening ethnic and religious tensions in Nigeria, media commentators and researchers say, at a time of heightened concern about internal security and fragile community relations.
Why money is not flowing like Ikogosi springs this campaign season
I am sure you have noticed that “money is not flowing” this season as it did in 2015 when there was a blizzard of dollars.
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Court declines to stop probe of Senator Okorocha by EFCC, Imo government
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