Mr. President, Mind the Gaps
By Chidi Amuta -
Between an inaugural speech full of quotable nuggets and his reflex actions in just one week of presidential power, Mr. Bola Tinubu may have sketched the footprints of his presidency.
A casual off script remark on the...
Beyond the Radiance at the Square
By Chidi Amuta -
The bare concrete parade ground of Eagle Square will tomorrow be animated by the symbolism of state ritual. Like most structures in Abuja’s homeless architecture, Eagle Square was originally designed by soldiers in power as a...
10th National Assembly leadership and the burden of morality
By Hassan Gimba -
In the system of governance we practise, there are three arms – the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The Legislature is said to be the first among the three. The arms are characterised by the principle of...
Henry Kissinger at 100: Diplomatic Centurion
Chidi Amuta -
His distinctive deep baritone with a heavy German inflected accent testifies to a man of world historic mission and accomplishment. Henry Alfred Kissinger has in one life time graduated from an outstanding scholar and global diplomatic icon...
Democracy’s Untidy Offspring
By Chidi Amuta -
The politics of democratic transition is hardly ever a beauty pageant. Oftentimes, the dazzling brilliance of campaign media displays conceal an underlying ugliness in the substance of what is on offer. It is all an ancient...
Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter
By Hassan Gimba -
In a move normally seen in Hollywood spy thrillers, Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and an aide to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a popular Islamic cleric, was arrested in September last year at the Cairo International...
The APC on the Cross
By Chidi Amuta -
The ruling All Progressives Congress is entitled to roll out the drums in an orgy of triumphalism. The feverish inauguration rehearsals at national and relevant state levels are all in order given the announced outcome of...
Fallacies of religion, No-man’s-land, and why Nigeria is unbreakable (2)
By Hassan Gimba -
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about...
From Sudan, the Perils of Bad Manners
Chidi Amuta -
In a tragic sense, Sudan is somehow lucky. Its leading political figures, who also happen to be combatant generals, have not hidden their differences beneath a façade of mutual deceit. They have instead allowed their differences to...
2023: The other side of the story!
By Abiodun Komolafe -
In most human societies, visible phenomena are oftentimes credited or associated with the causes of other events. Then, the analysis will take off from there. But, most often, there are other unknown forces or factors that...
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A clinical Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-0 away in an intense Copa del Rey semi-final, second leg on Wednesday as a Luis Suarez double...
