WHY CHIMARAOKE NNAMANI SHOULD APOLOGISE TO PETER OBI

By Valentine Obienyem

Considering the appalling tone of his offerings, one is inclined to wonder how many people read the surfeit of tweets from a past Governor of Enugu State, Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani! Employing adolescent English favoured by teen boys writing love letters to nubile girls they are wooing, Nnamani’s tweets were characterised by such banal words & expressions as “staccato”, “voluptuous masses of protoplasmic dribblers”, “hogwash gibberish trinity”, “a moving mass of hate, bile and vacuous bunkham”, “could not stand their kerfuffle”, “devious opium”, “trancelike orgy of tribalism and rabid religiosity”, among others. One can always detect in his continued tweets – glaring tissues of puerilities, iniquities, insults, imprecations - something akin to pompous rhetoric. There are so far, uncharacteristically, no lucid intervals in this madness. We miss in them a sense of orderly synthesis, and find merely a congeries of uncoordinated parts, lies, episodes, and personalities.

WHY DSS MUST ARREST PETER OBI, DATTI AHMED....Festus Keyamo

• * Details Of His Petition To State Security

By Emmanuel Mogbede

Mr Festus Keyamo, has petitioned the State Security Services (SSS), demanding the arrest and prosecution of Mr Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed for making incendiary comments on television.

WHY FG REMOVED FCT ABUJA FROM THE SINGLE TREASURY ACCOUNT....Tinubu

By Janet Bassey (Governance Correspondent)

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu explained on Sunday in Abuja that his administration removed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to expedite development and enhance resident participation in governance. . The President, who received FCT residents at the Presidential Villa for Sallah homage, said the bureaucracy associated with the TSA was hampering infrastructure growth in the capital city and had to be reviewed for impact and progress.

WHY FG WON'T BACK DOWN ON DE-REGISTRATION OF OHANEZE, AREWA SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUPS .....Abubakar, CAC Boss

By Chinwendu Agoha (MDA Reporter)

The Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Mr Garba Abubakar, has said that the federal government will not change mind on its de-registration of foremost socio-cultural groups in Nigeria, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).

WHY GOV UZODIMMA DISSOLVED HIS CABINET

By Gloria Acholonu (Imo State Correspondent)

Facts have emerged that internal sabotage and allegations of bribery were the major reasons for the sudden sack of 20 Commissioners out of the 27 member cabinet Commissioners in Imo state on Wednesday, by governor Hope Uzodimma.

WHY I AM RUNNING FOR ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP......Soludo

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

Renowned Development Economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has, once again, explained that he would run for the 2021 Anambra state governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, November 6.

WHY I DECAMPED TO APC.....Baba, Bauchi SDP Senatorial Candidate

By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)

A senatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the Bauchi North district in the 2023 general elections, Hon. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, popularly known as 'IMBA', has dumped the SDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

WHY I JOINED THE LABOUR PARTY.....Peter Obi

By Desmond Ukandu (Politics Editor)

Barely 48 hours after he bade farewell to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former governor of Anambra state and 2023 presidential aspirant, Mr Peter Obi (known as Okwute), has joined the Labour Party (LP) on the platform of which he intends to pursue his presidential ambition.

WHY I WANT TO DIVORCE ATIKU .....Wife, Jennifer

• * Relocates To UK, Sell Atiku's Dubai Properties

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is currently enmeshed in a divorce saga with his Igbo wife, Jennifer.

WHY IS AFRICA PLAYING WITH FIRE?

By Azu Ishiekwene

There is fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup that removed military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

WHY IS THE NORTH ALWAYS COMING IN LATE?

By Bolanle Bolawole

The news media were awash last week that the North’s governors and traditional rulers have come around to support state police after a meeting they held in Abuja; the reason for their about turn was given as the worsening security situation in the North. These are the same leaders that have often risen in stout defence of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, threatening critics with mayhem and insisting, against the grains of evidence and acting like the ostrich, that the North is more secured under their own son, Buhari, than it was under his predecessor, the Ijaw man Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

WHY JONATHAN WON'T CONTEST, WHATEVER THE COURTS SAY

By Azu Ishiekwene

After the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) announced last week that it would zone the presidency to the South in 2027, some names have been widely mentioned as possible frontrunners.

WHY MUSEVENI VIDEO SHAMES AFRICA

By Azu Ishiekwene

There’s a trending video from nine years ago. If you watched it casually, you might in fact think that it was done yesterday. It was a clip of Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, narrating what happened in 2014 when a delegation of African heads of state was asked by AU to mediate the Libyan crisis at the time.

WHY NIGERIA IS NOT MOVING FORWARD

By Bola Bolawale

There are as many reasons as discussants as to why Nigeria is not moving forward, why it is under-performing in the views of many, and why it is not fulfilling its potential. I will discuss only three of these reasons here today and, to do this, I will draw on three recent examples. The first is that of the suspended Humanitarian Affairs minister, Betta Edu.

WHY PDP SUSPENDED PIUS ANYIM, FAYOSE, OTHERS

• * Refers Gov Ortom To Disciplinary Committee

By Emmanuel Oloniruha

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has referred Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue to its National Disciplinary Committee over alleged involvement in anti-party activities.

WHY ROCHAS WAS MANHANDLED, ARRESTED, DETAINED AT IMO POLICE CID

• *  Attack On Senator, Unexpected, Unprovoked, Unwarranted....Media Aide

By Gloria Acholonu (Imo State Correspondent, in Owerri)

There was nothing to suggest that former governor of Imo state and Senator representing Orlu zone, Senator Rochas Anayo Okorocha, was going to be allegedly manhandled by some officials of the Imo state government. No inkling too, that he was going to be arrested and taken to the State Police CID for alleged detention.

WHY SENATOR MUSA MUST STEP DOWN....Niger East Constituents

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

The people of Niger-East senatorial district have called for the resignation of Senator Mohammed Sani Musa representing them at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly.

WHY SOUTHERN NIGERIANS WILL SUPPORT TAMBUWAL PRESIDENCY IN 2023... Northern Youth Group

• * Power Must Shift To South Based On Rotation, Insists South Youth Alliance

By Danjuma Williams (Gombe State Correspondent) and Dare Ajayi (Oyo State Correspondent)

The northern youth group agitating for Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, to run for the presidency in 2023 have given a reason why they feel southern Nigerians will likely support Tambuwal.

WHY THE AGITATION FOR YORUBA NATION...

By Bolanle Bolawole

I never knew it was an interview; I had thought it was one of those “reactions” that reporters seek from members of the audience or those they think can help them flesh up or throw some insights into a story line they are pursuing – and I have done this on a couple of occasions for The Guardian reporter, Kehinde Olatunji. So I was pleasantly surprised when the last outing turned out as a full-blown interview on the very important topic of the agitation for a Yoruba nation. Titled “Our agitation is for a restructured Nigeria, not Yoruba President, says Bolawole” and published in the Tuesday, 31st January, 2023 edition of The Guardian newspaper at page 14, I felt that the views I expressed in the interview should also be shared with my readers. Please read:

WHY TINUBU IS MY "PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2024”

By Bolanle Bolawole

Many people think - though erroneously - that Man or Woman of the Year, Person or Personality of the Year is given only to saints; even devils have a right to it, and have many times been so “rewarded” in the past!. The award is usually a recognition of who impacted lives the most, globally or within a geographical location, for good or for bad within the period under review. Who did the most extraordinary things - whether to the people’s acclamation/applause or derision/opprobrium? Who was the most enigmatic, the most controversial and talked-about, again, for good or for bad? Who surprised people the most - in their speeches, actions, and the successes recorded; whose sound bites travelled farther than those of any other person, thus etching a permanent impression on people’s mind and psyche? Emilokan! Make America Great Again! Whose presence/personality, policies (imagined or anticipated) and actions (threatened or real) have impacted or moved people to action more than at any other time in recent history?