The Last Battle Between Democracy & Dictatorship By Chidiebere Nwobodo

Warning! Warning! Warning! This is what will happen if Buhari returns in 2019. He will ensure that his stooges emerge as Senate President and the Speaker of The House of Representatives. President Buhari and the cabal will rather see National Assembly go up in flames and ashes than watch Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu […]

BREAKING: Saraki Declares For Presidency.

Senate President Bukola Saraki has declared his intention to run for presidency in the 2019 general elections. He made the declaration on Thursday while delivering a keynote address at a dialogue for youths and young aspirants in Abuja. The Senate President listed several challenges which he believes have clogged the wheels of progress in the […]

Nigerian Lawyers are Cheerleading Buhari, as he Delivers his Apologetics to Tyranny! – By Onyemaechi Ogbunwezeh.

Adolf Hitler was a sick man. He was not just physically, sick; a circumstance, which underwrote his addiction to cocaine and opiates. He was also a raving lunatic, who was elected to the German chancellorship through the ballot box. But ended up ripping German democracy asunder; and morphing into a full-blown dictator, that he was […]

How Saraki “Died” for Jonathan to “Live” Again – By Chidi Nwobodo.

For the first three years of the APC administration at the center, former president Goodluck Jonathan was blamed for all the ills, failures and blunders of President Buhari’s government. Jonathan was “responsible” for Buhari’s seemingly confusion and protracted delay in choosing his cabinet members—ministerial appointees. It took President Buhari six consecutive months to make up […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REPLIES SOUTHEAST GOVERNORS OVER CLAIM THAT PRESIDENT BUHARI HAS ABANDONED IGBO LAND.

The Federal Government has refuted a recent statement credited to the governors of south-eastern states, that the region has been shortchanged in the implementation of infrastructural projects by the President Muhammadi Buhari government. Contrary to their claim, the Federal government said there were 69 ongoing projects in the region alone. Minister of Information and Culture, […]

POLICE INVITE FANI-KAYODE OVER CRIMINAL PUBLICATION.

The Nigeria Police Force has invited a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for alleged conspiracy, criminal and inciting publication. In a letter dated August 20, 2018 with Ref. No CR/3000/IGP.SEC/MU/T.G/ABJ Vol.54/226, the police asked the former minister to appear before SP Usman Garba latest by August 28, 2018. In the letter titled, ‘Conspiracy, […]

YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT IS SOUND? BOOK AN APPOINTMENT WITH HIM AND ENGAGE HIM. By Samuel Ajayi

I have a wish. I wish some of our corporate guys in the South, who are well-travelled, still defending Buhari could have an opportunity to sit down with their man to discuss development and strategic policy issues with him. I mean something like a brainstorming session where facts and figures are put on the table […]

THE INSIDE STORY OF OSHIOMOLE’s FAILED COUP

The siege, penultimate Tuesday, to the National Assembly, which eventually cost a former Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura his job, has been told from different angles with different accounts often in bits and pieces. There has not been a sequential details of what truly transpired. However, THISDAY was able […]

Ihedioha, Samdaddy, Njoku, Achonu, Ekomaru As Front Runners For Imo PDP Guber Ticket (Part 2) – By Kelechi Mejuobi

As promised, part two of this topic will dwell on three other prominent aspirants who cannot be easily written off from the ticket race of PDP after a preview of the chances of the two forerunners; Chukwuemeka Nkem Ihedioha and Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, ( SamDaddy) was done in last week’s edition. If previous stories of […]

Intersociety Nigeria: PRESS RELEASE ON DETAINED IPOB WOMEN

Our Organization-Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law is calling on the central Government of Nigeria and the Government of Imo State, as a matter of uttermost immediacy and importance, to discontinue, withdraw and discharge all the 10-count spurious charges of “treasonable felony”, “conspiracy to commit treasonable felony”, “terrorism”, etc, slammed on […]

Senator Anyanwu Laments the Spate of Bad Roads in the State Capital, Promises Sustainable Solution.

Senator Samuel Anyanwu has expressed deep concerns over the spate of infrastructure especially bad roads in Owerri the State capital, while promising a sustainable solution when he is inauguration as the governor of Imo State in 2019. Senator Anyanwu who represents Owerri Senatorial Zone in the Senate made his feelings known while addressing some PDP […]

Saraki: Senators lambast APC.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isah Hamma Misau and his counterpart in the Committee on Banking, Finance and other Financial Insitutions, Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim have advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders to desist from looking for scapegoats for the failure to fulfill their promises to the electorate by constantly […]

Which of these men can defeat Buhari?

The battle to displace President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s election has intensified in the last few weeks given the gale of defections in both the ruling and opposition parties, which has ratcheted up the political temperature in the country. Although there is the belief that the increasing jostle for the nation’s plum job may […]

DID SEN. SAM DADDY BETRAY RT. HON. EMEKA IHEDIOHA/PDP IN 2015 IMO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION?

Let’s go down Memory Lane on what really happened A lie told repeatedly will start sounding like a truth to the ear of people. Ordinarily we should have waved this issue aside but when you continuously lie against someone who did nothing to you other than show you love then it becomes something to worry […]

THE DILEMMA OF THE YOUTH OF NIGERIA.

It is sad, shameful and pathetic, that distinguished APC Senators of the federal republic of Nigeria elected by us the people, have allowed themselves to be used by the presidency and their party leadership to rubbish our exalted hallowed senate institution. There’s all sorts of talk bandied around internationally on the internet about senators collecting […]

PDP: AS THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS – LETS NOT DESTROY OURS. By Emeka Ibe (Okwuru Okaa)

In about two months from now, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will be going into the primaries to elect their Presidential, Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly candidates ahead next years general elections. Move around the length and breadth of the state, from Ideator North to Ngor-Okpalla, Onuimo to Ohaji-Egbema, Owerri Municipal to Obowo and […]

Why We Wail..

The Arabian Peninsula has a very rich history dating 6000BC. The peninsula was occupied by Bedouins…the modern day Arabs. The peninsula is mostly sandy desert, hard rocky mountains, and wetlands around the coastal areas. To say this is one of the most uninhabitable places on earth is an understatement! Summer temperatures are so high that […]

2019: The Die is Cast!

Fellow Nigerians, the die is cast! President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019 against the well-considered advice of many well-meaning Nigerians that doing so would not be in the best interest of our country. I had hoped against hope that the greater love of country would persuade him to retire […]

APC’s Loose Cannons.

My article published a fortnight ago titled: ‘Oshiomhole as Buhari’s Enforcer’, provided the background to the current political troubles. In the said article, I had stated inter alia: “The truth well-spoken by him (Oshiomhole) is that ministers, heads of parastatals and security chiefs owe their allegiance to these competing power cells. You see, Buhari runs […]

Tinubu’s breathtaking hypocrisy.

When last February President Muhammadu Buhari saddled the former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, with the task of reconciling all aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country, I scoffed at the idea and stated then that it was a futile exercise. The reasons were not far-fetched: Buhari by his actions had […]

Oshiomhole as Buhari’s Enforcer.

Last week, Adams Oshiomhole told us loud and clear what we all knew but which many people were either reluctant to admit, or say publicly. If it was a Freudian slip from the new garrison commander and chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), then it was an important one that confirmed our worst fears […]

WHAT TOO MUCH SEX CAN DO TO YOU. By Sola Ogundipe

•Decreased desire •Reduced enjoyment •Unhappiness •Loss of appetite for food Reality star Kim Kardashian was once cautioned by her doctors to stop having too much sex following revelations about the star’s daily multiple sex routine in effort to get pregnant. Kim, who was 34 at that time, had revealed in the Season 10 of their […]

ON SARAKI’S KINGSHIP.

I find that some unenlightened APC Supporters have been trying to portray Senator Bukola Saraki’s retirement of his father from the Leadership of Kwara Politics as irresponsible and a betrayal. What I want them to know is that that singular act of Saraki is the most responsible thing a son that has come of age […]

SAMDADDY, IHEDIOHA, NJOKU, ACHONU AND EKOMARU AS FRONT RUNNERS FOR IMO PDP GUBER TICKET (Part 1)

Four years after 2015 election, there are strong indications that the Governorship ticket of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for Imo State, will no longer be an all comers affairs if the number of aspirants wishing to grab it for 2019 election is considered This time four years ago, the political firmament in Imo State […]

“HAZIE OWERRI 2019” CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION. An introduction.

PDP Delegates of the 33 wards of Owerri federal constituency, we the “Hazie Owerri Campaign organization”, hereby introduce to you our Brother, friend, uncle and acquaintance, Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi who has put himself forward to join hands with other like minded progressives to reorder the pace of social, infrastructural and economic development of Owerri […]

Akpabio’s Defection, Bad Omen for APC, Says Former Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor.

Senator Godswill Akpabio’s deputy while he was Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Patrick Ekpotu has said the defection of his former boss from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is a bad omen for the ruling party. Ekpotu, who also served alongside Akpabio as commissioners under former governor Victor Attah’s […]

NIGERIA IS WITHOUT A PRESIDENT, BUHARI IS AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ILLITERATE – JUNAID EXPLODES.

Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic lawmaker, on Tuesday, lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over the tensed political atmosphere in the country. Mohammed, in a chat with DAILY POST, described Buhari as a political and an economic illiterate, who lacks the capacity to manage the affairs of the country. While claiming that Buhari was sick, incompetent and dishonest, […]

NIGERIA’S ELECTRICITY GENERATION DROPS TO 2,684MW

Electricity generation in Nigeria on Monday dropped to 2,684 megawatts, as there was decline in output from the hydropower plants and some gas-fired stations, including Egbin in Lagos. According to reports from the Ministry of Power, Words and Housing, the total generation capacity of 4,463.3MW was unavailable as of 6am on Monday, compared to 3,631.4MW […]

Buhari has destroyed Nigeria beyond imagination in just three years – Charlyboy attacks President.

Maverick entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has destroyed Nigeria beyond imagination in just three years. Charlyboy, who is the leader of the ‘OurMumuDonDo’ movement stated this while reacting to the recent complaint by soldiers about their welfare. Some aggrieved soldiers had posted a video […]

Why the PDP Is Ten Times Better Than the APC, By Femi Aribisala.

We have now had three-and-a-half years of APC rule. We have now seen what APC’s ‘change’ actually entails. We are no longer under any illusions. Even though the APC has spent the last few years re-litigating what was wrong with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it should now be clear that the PDP is far […]

Why is Nigeria so religious, yet so poor? By Olu Fasan.

A few months ago, the popular American preacher TD Jakes came to the church I attend in London. Preaching on leadership and wealth, he said prayer is not leadership and won’t make anyone rich. “If prayers were enough”, he said, “Nigeria would be one of the richest countries in the world”. Most people in the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Former Daura’s ally says disgraced SSS boss took bribes, betrayed Buhari

A former assistant to the sacked director general of State Security Service, Lawal Daura, has accused his former principal of extensive corruption, and has portrayed him as a man who serially betrayed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, for money. The assistant, Abdulwahab Abdulrahman, a retired senior SSS official, said he left the agency because of […]

Press Statement: PDP To Buhari, APC: Speak Out on N21 billion Daura Loot

August 11, 2018 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to end its silence and speak out on their evident complicity in the corrupt amassing of the N21bn, guns and thousands of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) allegedly found in the residence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ally, the […]

From the stables of Dr. Chinweizu, a Critic, Author and Poet. Why Federalism, Confederalism Or Restructuring Is Not Enough

The Federalism of the First Republic, of the 1963 Constitution, is being demanded by some as the solution to Nigeria’s problems. The proponents of this view seem to think that once Nigeria returns to that constitution, with possibly some slight modifications, they and their interests will be protected, and their cherished “One Nigeria” can go […]

PDP PRESS RELEASE: NO SOUTH EAST PDP GOVERNOR IS JOINING APC

We have read with dismay the claim by governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State that two governors of the South East extraction elected on the platform of People’s Democratic Party would join APC before the 2019 elections. Raising from zonal emergency meeting of zonal working committee of PDP in South East held in Enugu,Enugu state […]

Life Presidency For Buhari: Authors Of Tyranny & Messengers Of Esau Must Not Set Nigeria On Fire! Intersociety.

Chances for the survival and advancement of democracy and rule of law in Nigeria are steadily fading, threatened and endangered by the country’s anti democratic forces or the authors of tyranny and totalitarianism. As a matter of fact, Nigeria’s democratic process has known no peace, stability and advancement especially since mid 2015 when Retired Major […]

SAMDADDY WILL SECURE VICTORY FOR IMO PDP – UDEAGU TELLS DELEGATES. By Lancelot Obiaku.

Ahead of the September governorship primary election of the People’s Democratic Party in Imo State, a staunch member of the party, Chief Okey Udeagu, has urged the PDP delegates in Okigwe local government to cast their votes for Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), to become the party’s governorship flag bearer in the state for the 2019 […]

ITEMS FOUND IN EX DSS BOSS HOUSE..

Light Amuntions 200,000 PVCs #21Bn Cash A Threat To Our Democracy Amidst Fight Against Corruption Perhaps the most ignored of the three items purported to have been found in Daura’s home are the PVCs. The cash and the arms may be explained by stretches of imagination and guided narratives. The PVCs on the other hand […]

DELE MOMODU WRITES ANOTHER OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI ‘PLEASE, I BEG YOU…DON’T RUN FOR A SECOND TERM. GO HOME WITH YOUR HONOUR INTACT’ ‘THOSE POLITICIANS ASKING YOU TO RUN AGAIN ARE DOING SO FOR SELFISH INTERESTS’

‘…Kindly permit me to be as brutally frank as possible. As a stakeholder who made his modest contribution to your emergence as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I owe you nothing but the truth. I was not a member of your party when I volunteered to support your mission and ambition in 2015. […]

UN WARNS OVER TENSIONS IN NIGERIA, OTHERS …AS UNCERTAINTY DOGS NASS’ RESUMPTION THIS WEEK

Global body in charge of security, United Nations Security Council, says it is worried over what it described as continued tensions linked to disputed electoral processes, social and economic difficulties, and conflicts between farmers and herders in the Lake Chad Basin. Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad are members of the Lake Chad Basin on which the […]

Atiku: I Will Do One Term Only, If Elected President in 2019.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has officially declared his intention to contest the presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in this exclusive interview lays out his plan to reposition the country to realise its full potential. Atiku speaks on a wide variety of issues, including youth unemployment, the […]

A LESSON on HUMILITY to learn from the story of BODE THOMAS!

Bode Thomas, yes, the same Bode Thomas, whom the Surulere street was named after, died on Nov 23, 1953 in a most mysterious manner. Bode Thomas was born to a wealthy trader, John thomas in 1918. Himself, FRA Williams and Remi Fani-Kayode (Father of Femi Fani-Kayode) attended Law School in London, and they established the […]

THE REVOLUTION IS ALREADY HERE. By Femi Aribisala.

Those were the days when peace of mind could be bought with hypocritical acts of philanthropy. But that just won’t do any more. It is karma time. Many years ago, as a member of the Nigerian delegation to the Nonaligned Conference, I engaged a Nigerian vice-president in discussion on Nigerian politics. I cannot recall now […]

AKPABIO’S DEFECTION STORY: A PEEP INSIDE THE LOCKER ROOM.

It is tempting for APC and it’s Chairman (of the Senate blockade fame) to get very excited about AKPABIO’s defection. The matter is much more than gathering crowd across the south-south geo political zone at Ikot Ekpene. Let’s give you a few tips; Many think that Akpabio only defected in other to protect himself from […]

POLITICS 101: WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY IN A NUTSHELL

(1) Tinubu had schemed to make Oshiomhole the APC Chairman. They happily kicked Oyegun out and put him there. (2) Oshiomhole took to the job aggressively with the aim of establishing party supremacy over everybody in government except the President. It was clear that he was going to attempt to use his position as party […]

MANDELA TO NIGERIA…

“YOU know I am not very happy with Nigeria. I have made that very clear on many occasions. Yes, Nigeria stood by us more than any nation, but you let yourselves down, and Africa and the black race very badly. Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are […]

You can’t rule beyond 2019: EMIR OF KANO TELLS PRESIDENT BUHARI.

The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on Tuesday, spoke what appeared a shocking statement suggesting he does not expect the President, to rule beyond 2019. Sanusi made the statement at a one-day dialogue forum organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development (SCDDD) at Abuja. Sanusi while cautioning the President on his […]

The Fall Of Humanity, Crime Suspect Number Two. Welcoming Lawal Musa Daura To The World List Of Personae Non Gratae (Pariah Personalities) Intersociety Nigeria: 8th August 2018

The sack yesterday, 7th August 2018 of Retired Director Lawal Musa Daura as the Director General of Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, not only marks the Fall of Humanity Crimes’ Suspect Number Two in the present central Government of Nigeria headed by Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari and Law Professor […]

THE DEFINITION OF NIGER DELTA REGION: AN ATTEMPT TO CORRECT THE MISGUIDED LOT IN THE HINTERLAND. By Russell Bluejack.

I write today to put an end to this protracted, avoidable debate about the meaning of “Niger Delta Region”. First, it is an indisputable fact that the ascription has a political undertone; however, it refers to a region within the Eastern Region that actually exists. This assertion may not be in line with popular cum […]

At War with Monguno, Aligned with Daura, Lawal was the Cabal’s Face.

For watchers of the power configuration in the Buhari administration, the sack of Lawal Daura, former Director-General of State Security Services, yesterday was the end of a chapter in a complex power play at the presidential villa. Recalled from retirement on July 2, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari to head the secret service, Lawal, a […]

A DEFORMED STRUCTURE, PRODUCES UNPRODUCTIVE PEOPLE, ECONOMY AND COUNTRY-RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA NOW.

No matter the decibel of the rhetoric, bragadacio and empty noise in Nothingness, Nigeria will never join the league of progressive countries of the world, until we restructure this country to a true federal state , just like we had it during our progressively productive years between 1957 to 1964. This current quasi-unitary structure is […]

NASS Siege, Democracy And Fascism. By Law Mefor

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it” – Frantz Fanon Beyond any doubt, the battle ahead is summed: progressivism versus fascism. Like the Irish lawyer and politician John Philpot Curran, said: “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” All patriotic elements […]

National Assembly Siege: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty – Atiku

The attention of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has been drawn to an illegal and undemocratic attempt by fascist forces to break into the National Assembly for the purpose of furthering the agenda to force a change in the Nigerian Senate’s leadership. Atiku Abubakar completely condemns this atrocity and calls on all those […]

THE IGBO QUESTION AND THE MEDIA LACUNA. By Charles Ogbu.

“Until the animals learn to tell their stories, the history of the hunt will always, favour the hunter, not the hunted” The importance of the media in any cause can never be over-emphasized. More often than not, the media, when fully exploited by an evil genius, can make a victim of oppression seem like the […]

HISTORY: Obed Edom Chukwuemeka Azikiwe

The gentleman sitting to the right of Lord Frederick Lugard in this picture (see below) is Obed-Edom Chukwuemeka Azikiwe. He’s the father of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the last Governor-General and first President of Nigeria. Obed-Edom Azikiwe was a very influential member of Lugard’s administration. You can see from the photo how highly Lugard regarded him. […]

Defections As Funeral Ceremony Of Democracy And Good Governance In Nigeria. – Intersociety

It troubles and saddens our heart that democracy and good governance built on mandatory fulfillment of social contract obligations by elected and appointed public office holders are not only threatened and endangered but also witnessing funeral ceremonies through maddening and reckless defections in Nigeria. Defection is the oddest side of parliamentary cross-carpeting and greatest threat […]

Akpabio: The political suicide of a fearful politician.

It is no longer news that Senator Godswill Akpabio is decamping to the APC; all is set for the move any moment now. Many have received this with great shock. Nothing about his decision seems to make sense especially at a time when the main opposition party, the PDP has put its house in order […]

Two secret files and Nigeria’s failure

On Monday, 30 July, 2007, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ran a documentary titled: ‘The Gift of Democracy?’ The 27-and-a-half minute documentary tells how Nigeria was rigged at the very beginning. It explains how the British shut out a section of Nigeria and wilfully handed Nigeria over to mediocrity. The revelation is an apt explanation […]