About a week ago, a video and several photos of armed bandits riding into a town in Katsina surfaced on social media. They not only arrived to a very frightened people who resorted to cheers to escape their wrath, the bandits mingled freely; individually in some cases on their motor cycles without any sign of discomposure. What that video and [...]
Umar Sa'ad Hassan
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In 2018, President Buhari hurriedly withdrew $496m from the excess crude account without the approval of the senate as is stipulated by the Nigerian constitution to pay for 12 Super Tucano planes.In a letter sent after the money had already been withdrawn, Buhari deliberately left them in the dark as to the model of the planes and told the senate [...]
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It is no longer news that President Buhari's integrity has proven a hoax. It was never about wanting to change Nigeria for the better,it was about wanting power and its attendant benefits like those before him. Below are 5 cases we may never see in court. DIEZANI ALISON-MADUEKE HAS NOT BEEN EXTRADITED DESPITE WHAT MAGU HAS BEEN SAYING SINCE 2017 Former Minister [...]
The disapproval of the social media and hate speech bills by a lot of Nigerians is quite understandable. The ignominy with which the Buhari administration has repeatedly made a mockery of the rule of law has made it almost impossible to trust him. But that is really as far as it goes. If you have any other excuse for being [...]
There was an air of certitude to the DSS' call for Omoyele Sowore's sureties to come and pick him up. The Buhari administration has never hidden its intention to hold onto him and one ordinarily would expect his lawyers, former PDP youth leader and activist, Deji Adeyanju and others that went to pick him up to begrudgingly be told so. [...]
The old Muhammadu Buhari was very reserved and easy-going. There is no record (factual or speculative) of him initiating political alliances or of him going the extra mile to consolidate his political ties other than attending weddings and a few other social events. He was the most loved political figure in northern Nigeria and the politicians jumping over themselves to [...]
Barely 24 hours after my article titled Who Really Killed Alex Badeh And Why Are His Killers Not In Court? on the 25th of June, an announcement was made that a joint team of the DSS and military operatives had arrested another 14 suspects in relation to the murder. The police had already arrested 5 persons in December 2018 with [...]
Until at least the last 48 hours, there were videos online of Nigerians being killed in South Africa almost on a daily basis. The only crime this men along with other African nationals committed was to be in South Africa and be prosperous enough to become a threat. A threat the South African Deputy Minister of Police, Bongani Mkongi clearly [...]
Expecting Abubakar Malami,the Attorney-General of the federation to satisfactorily defend the Buhari administration's handling of the Process and Industrial Development Limited situation is no different from giving him a chance to explain how Section 174 of the constitution allows him to disobey court orders-he won't make any sense. President Buhari was sworn into office on May 29th 2015 and precisely 3 [...]
rev·o·lu·tion\ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən\ noun : the usually violent attempt by many people to end the rule of one government and start a new one : a sudden, extreme, or complete change in the way people live, work, etc. : the action of moving around something in a path that is similar to a circle (Culled from Merriam Webster Dictionary) Omoyele Sowore never threatened to overthrow President Buhari [...]
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President Obasanjo's remarks about an on-going 'islamization and fulanization' process at a Church of Nigeria event in Delta state and a deed in that direction on the part of the Buhari administration by announcing a new radio station for the Fulani formed the major item of public discourse over the last week. You may also count a few goofy statements [...]
'Justice Kekere Ekun's husband was an APC chieftain in Lagos when in 2016, she affirmed the PDP and Governor Nyesom Wike's victory in the Rivers gubernatorial election' 'Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa's husband was in the ANPP when she adjudged Senator David Mark of the PDP to have defeated Usman Abubakar (Young Alhaji) of the ANPP in a tussle for one of the [...]
Several reactions have trailed the release of Zainab Aliyu, a Kano based Nigerian arrested in Saudi Arabia for smuggling in Tramadol, a banned substance while arriving for the lesser pilgrimage in company of 2 family members. While a lot of Nigerians are commending the Buhari administration for its swift response after the arrest of a 7 man drug ring at the [...]
Dear Mr President, to protect the supremacy of the rule of law, you had us fighting for a former National Security Adviser, who is alleged to have shared money meant to arm our troops among his cronies while insurgents killed and maimed innocent Nigerians. By the time an Ibo separatist with a penchant for using strong language against other tribes [...]
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