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Nigeria’s Misplaced History – Comrade Ganiyu Abdullahi

There was no country called Nigeria, before 1897. Therefore, it is exactly 125 years ago that the name “Nigeria” was coined by Miss Flora Louise Shaw, a British correspondent, who later got married to Lord Lugard (Nigeria’s first Governor-General). Her concept for this name was contained in her article, published in the London Times of 8th January, 1897. According to her “the name Nigeria, applying to no other part of Africa, may without offence to any neighbour, be accepted as co-extensive with the territories, over which the Royal Niger Company has extended British influence, and may serve to differentiate them equally from the Colonies of Lagos and the Niger Protectorate, on the coast; and from the French territories of the Upper Niger.”

byTayo Aderinola

23/03/2022

6 minute read

Tinubu: Standing out in the crowd – Dan Agbese

The occasion of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 69 birthday last month invited, as such occasions are wont to do, a flood of encomiums, each intent on reminding us what a blessing the man is to our national politics. Tinubu, of course, knew that some of them spoke from both sides of the mouth. He knew that among those who loudly proclaimed his political greatness were men who could not stand his guts, his political sagacity and courage and, of course, his assumed and legitimate political ambition to climb to the top of the totem pole. There is nothing wrong with the king-maker becoming the king. He knew they did no more than stroll down the path of tradition in order to be numbered among those who appreciate him in earnest. Nothing strange there. It is the way the cook stands; it is the way it crumbles.

byTayo Aderinola

11/04/2021

1 minute read

The Man, Bola Tinubu I know – Pius Akinyelure

I met Bola Ahmed Tinubu first time when we shortlisted his name at Mobil Oil. He appeared for the interview and we scrutinised his credentials. We referred all his credentials to the awarding institutions and we found out at Mobil that they were genuine and authentic. He would never have been employed by our organisation if any, no matter how minute, of his credentials was found wanting.

byTayo Aderinola

11/04/2021

10 minute read

Read about the tense, high-wire politicking of the PDP first Presidential Convention, see statistic, active players and more

Exactly 22 years ago, the PDP held its first ever national convention to select a presidential candidate, and kick-start 16 years of ruling partyship in Nigeria. Jos was the battleground. Read about the tense, high-wire politicking of that day.

byTayo Aderinola

14/02/2021

4 minute read

As Trump leaves, Soyinka replies critics of his green card tearing

Mr Donald Trump who was sworn in as President of the United States on 20 January 2017 will leave office tomorrow, Wednesday, 20 January 2021. In four years, he became a bogeyman to a large percentage of his people and outsiders. He kept the world in tenterhooks by the way he governed, making people to fear that he might, one day, set the globe on fire! That period of apprehension will be over tomorrow. Professor Wole Soyinka was among those who saw through the man and gave a storm warning to US voters that they were about to buy themselves a pile of troubles if they voted Trump in as President. Soyinka was ignored.

byTayo Aderinola

19/01/2021

5 minute read

Between 2023 Presidency and Bola Tinubu

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly called BAT, is a master strategist, generalissimo, who has dominated the politics of Nigeria’s commercial capital for over two decades, Tinubu, has long been overdue and expected to make a run for the country’s top job.

byTayo Aderinola

03/01/2021

2 minute read

1999 constitution ‘needs to be replaced NOT amended’

Ayoade, who was a member of the 2005 national political reform conference, rejected the ongoing efforts by the national assembly to amend the constitution which he said is “totally flawed.”

byTayo Aderinola

30/12/2020