President Muhammadu Buhari Archives

Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah and the Mystique of Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Daura, Egypt’s President, Grand Mufti of Al Azhar University - Shaikh Ahmed Al Tayeb, Inter-religious dialogue, Nepotism, Pope Francis, President Muhammadu Buhari, Qatar, The Cathedral of Our Lady of ArabiaNo CommentsViews:

Sokoto in Nigeria is a city, a provincial capital or the capital of an empire that once existed, depending on which one each reader takes. This Sokoto does not have the affluence of Kano or... Read more

Must Obasanjo and Atiku Fight to Finish?

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Chief Oluseun Obasanjo, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, Gen TY Danjuma, Governor Charles Soludo, Igbo, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, PDP, Peter Obi, President Muhammadu Buhari, Super 5No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The founding moment of the Obasanjo/Atiku love-hate relationship would be difficult to pinpoint immediately but early 1999 remains the turning point in that now conflictual i... Read more

What Manner of Accident?

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2022In: LifeworldTags: accident, Brig-Gen Audu Ogbole James, General, President Muhammadu Buhari1 CommentViews:

Someone, somewhere is asking President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the death of Brigadier-General Audu Ogbole James. That is to suggest that the storyline of the General being crushed to... Read more

‘No Work, No Pay’ Even in Academia in Nigeria’s Current Circumstance?

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: SpectacleTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', 'No Work, Methodological nationalism, Neoliberal turn, No Pay', President Muhammadu Buhari1 CommentViews:

The entire world is reeling under ‘accumulation by dispossession’ imposed on everyone else by the neoliberal turn in the late 1970s. The impact is certainly not the same everywhe... Read more

Unlike 1999 and 2015, No Presidential Aspirant Seems Interested in Wearing the Toga of a Messiah in 2023

Posted By: adminon: April 24, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Alison Ayida, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Messiahs, President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Eghosa OsaghaeNo CommentsViews:

We do not know what their discourse experts might still come up with before 2023 but, unlike 1999 and 2015, the struggle for power in Nigeria against 2023 would seem to lack one element: non... Read more

The Idoma Governorship Drumbeat in Nigeria’s Benue State, Come 2023

Posted By: adminon: May 09, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Alago nationality, Apa State, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Paul Unongo, Chief Solomon Lar, Igede, J. S Tarka, President Muhammadu Buhari, Tiv nationalityNo CommentsViews:

The drumbeat for a Benue State governor of Idoma identity is getting louder and louder, three full years before the 2023 General Elections. Three years is still a long time in politics but f... Read more

The Constitution?

Posted By: adminon: February 01, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CAPP, Chief Sunday Awoniyi, IBB University, President Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:

Establishing a journal in Nigeria in the year 2000 and calling it The Constitution must have seemed the most foolish step to take. Almost nobody was anticipating much constitutional creases... Read more

Peacemakers Move to Stitch Post-Election Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Adams Oshiomhole, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Bishop Mathew Kukah, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, Ikoyi, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Mass-Elite Divide, President Muhammadu Buhari, Uche SecondusNo CommentsViews:

Flashes of anger appear to be combining with flashes of inspiration to break the mindsets behind disagreements over the results of the February 23rd, 2019 presidential poll from spilling int... Read more

Caught Between Angry Elite and Hungry Masses, What Are President Buhari’s Options on Arrival?

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Boko Haram War, Herdsmen violence, Nationalism, President Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:

The situation on the ground in Nigeria today makes the question of what returning President Buhari should do immediately on arrival an issue beyond the party or cabinet. Nigeria is so divide... Read more

Supreme Court Makes PDP One Again: What Has The Economist Intelligence Unit Got to Do With It?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2017In: NewsLogTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Alhaji Shehu Shagari, APC, EIU, G8, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari, The Economist Intelligence UnitNo CommentsViews:

The struggle for power in 2019 got more complicated today with the re-birth of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) at the Supreme Court. The strategy of incapacitating the PDP in intractabl... Read more