Niger Coup: ECOWAS Lacks Diplomacy, Which is Only Option To Restore Democracy To Niger - Daniel Bwala

“There is a law of leadership that says if you are leading and no one is following, you are simply taking a walk.

Reckless Exploitation Of Natural Resources, Major Cause Of Coups In W/Africa – Falana

A former President of the West Africa Bar Association (WABA) and prominent legal expert, Femi Falana, has shed light on the disturbing trend of coups within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Bode George: It is Better To Jaw-Jaw Than War-War With Niger Junta

The PDP chieftain said the French government’s refusal to fully decolonise the West African nation has led to the crisis. A chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has expressed his concerns about the Economic Community of West African State’s (ECOWAS) determination to wage war on the Niger junta government if diplomatic measures prove ineffective.

coup vs domcracy

Russian President Putin himself does not want to be overthrown by Wagner. Yet, he is supporting the Niger military junta to overthrow President Mohamed Bazoum, and some Africans are hailing it as an anti-imperialist victory?

Top Ten Rubbish Narratives Bola Tinubu Fed Us - Rudolf Okonkwo

Since I wasn't made a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, despite winning (apologies Senator Elisha Abbo) all security checks by every security agency in Nigeria since I was in primary three, I might as well say "serving power a la carte" the way I feel without fear of any spiritual attack from a nearby mountain of fire. Here is the Top Ten Rubbish Narratives Bola Tinubu fed us.

BREAKING OF THE COLONIAL AGREEMENTS WITH FRANCE THE MALIAN CASE AGAINST IMPERIALIST FRANCE

After independence, 14 French-speaking countries were forced to sign 11 agreements with France which are as follows:

Niger intervention: How does it help Nigeria? - Sheriffdeen Tella

The West African sub-region has been witnessing a spate of coups in recent times and fear is gripping leaders of coup-free countries that it might be their turn tomorrow if stringent actions are not taken on behalf of the current victims.

All the drama around Emefiele

When you think you have seen it all in our dearly beloved country, you realise you ain’t

seen nothing yet. Every day, we keep coming up with the silliest of things.

Bulkachuwa Blunder: 11 Critical Questions Nigerians Are Asking

The Senator in the eye of this storm has denied any wrongdoing, but his comments have already stirred the hornet's nest. 

Ibadan And Its 12 Kings - Lasisi Olagunju

Ile Ife and Oyo-Ile were at the very core of the cultural and political essence of the Yoruba. While the whole of the Yoruba has managed to preserve Ile-Ife as the home for all, Oyo-Ile, some 200-plus years ago, was lost to the pillage of the Fulani and to its own internal political sins and crimes.

Nigerian Prisons Officials Now Borrow Money From Inmates After Exhausting Poor Salaries – Aggrieved Officer Writes Tinubu

According to the aggrieved official, the NCS personnel were being poorly paid and treated unfairly unlike their colleagues in other departments at the Ministry of Interior.

Everything worked during the 2023 Election except INEC – Dele Farotimi

Author and Political activist, Dele Farotimi has opined that everything worked during the February 25 presidential elections except the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Isese: You’re neither omniscient nor omnipotent, Soyinka tells Emir of Ilorin - Prof. Wole Soyinka

Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has taken a swipe at the Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for his role in preventing an Osun priestess, Yeye Ajesikemi Omolara, from holding an Isese festival in the state.

Letting the Poor Breathe - Sunday Odeleke

For decades, the elite has held Nigeria down and sabotaged every reform effort. It is to their credit that the poor in the country are going through the worst moment of their lives. Among the downtrodden, things have fallen apart and it has become increasingly difficult for the poor to earn a living.

“Let the poor breath”

Preselect Bola Tinubu has made two impressive sound-bites which tended to give the impression he would be a people-friendly leader. In his maiden speech on Democracy Day on June 12, 2023, he told Nigerians: “I share your pains” with regard to the harsh economic experience occasioned by the commencement of implementation of the petrol subsidy removal.

Elections: 23 Crucial Recommendations Made By EU Observers

The European Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Nigeria on Tuesday the 27th of June, published its final report on the federal and state elections of 25 February and 18 March. 

The myth of ‘suffer now, enjoy later’- Abimbola Adelakun

This time eight years ago, Nigerians still basking in the euphoria of having a martinet president began to ascribe all kinds of wonderful happenstances to his body language.

Why northerners don’t call Tinubu “Jagaban”- Farooq Kperogi

Southern Nigerians have asked me two trivial but persistent and important questions about Preselect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Rising ethnic tension between Hausa and Fulani - Farooq Kperogi

When Dan Fodio decided to “reform” the Islam he met in Hausa land, he repudiated the Islam that the Hausa people had practiced. The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, so labyrinthine, so time-honored, and so unexampled that a fictitious ethnic category called the “Hausa-Fulani” was invented by Nigeria’s southern press to describe the emergent ethnic alchemy it has produced.

The first fruits of a crooked INEC - Chidi Odinkalu

Evidence of the scope of the mess created by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the crooked leadership of Mahmood Yakubu began to emerge this past week. It all suggests network egregiousness on a monumental scale that easily rivals the elections of 2007 until now seen as the nadir in Nigeria’s journey of elective governance. The bottom has fallen off the system of electoral administration under Mahmood Yakubu’s watch.