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 [...]
Umar Sa'ad Hassan
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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 [...]
The 2019 elections will leave a lot in its wake. These are 5 things likely to happen after all has been said and done. SARAKI WILL SUCCEED WIKE AS PDP LEADER In what has surprised many, Governor Wike made practically no strong effort at stamping his authority after the return of Atiku, Saraki and the other big boys to the PDP. Wike's [...]
INEC has put the final number of registered voters for the 2019 general election at 84 million with the North West leading the pack as usual with 20.2 million, followed by the South West with 16.3 million registered voters.The thumb-print columns on the ballot-papers have been compressed further by INEC to accommodate the very many parties duly registered and what [...]
It is important we get this straight. Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria is not a member of the PDP neither is he an APC member in the bad books of the Presidency. If anything, choosing to charge the CJN for false declaration of assets with the 2019 general elections only a matter of weeks away would only be [...]
To be very honest, I thought President Goodluck Jonathan was going to rig the 2015 Presidential elections and that thought crept in from the day, Femi Fani-Kayode was made the spokesman of his Presidential campaign. FFK was a talking time bomb. Patience Jonathan's comments on how 'people dey born shidren troway for the other side' targeted at the north, stuck [...]
Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on media, Garba Shehu, in a response to a statement by Phrank Shuaibu, the SA public communications to PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said the late submission of handover notes by the Goodluck Jonathan administration was responsible for the late appointment of ministers.I remember citing the timing of the submission and the voluminous nature [...]
Five years after my NYSC, I still hold my boss in high esteem. Olumuyiwa Olowokure was not only understanding, patient and tolerant, he was courteous and very refined. He was a black oyibo. Oga O.O. it was who when he called me to his office with my law school gra-gra to ask how I thought a certificate relating to a [...]
President Buhari's most sensational comments since assuming office have come from outside Nigeria -- South Africa, the UK, Qatar and more recently, Poland. Unsurprisingly, most of the questions he has also been asked have been outside these shores. It appears he is too scared of the many questions that will be asked of him if he hosts a media chat [...]
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