On Thursday, May 18, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd) CFR will be eighty. If you call him General Aliyu Mohammed or General Aliyu Gusau, you are referring to the same man. …
Of all appointments to be made by the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, none will define his presidency, more than the appointment of Minister of Petroleum. There are Ministers and …
I attended an event recently in Lagos and Chief Joseph Oladele Sanusi (84) from Ogbagi in Akoko North West Local Government of Ondo state, entered quietly, unannounced.The Master of Ceremony …
Professor Mahmood Yakubu (60), Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has a date with history in February. He will be the only Chairman of the Electoral Commission to …
Of all the mistakes made by the military, none is greater than the 1975/1976 assault on bureaucracy in this country. It was termed THE GREAT PURGE by the media at …
The pick on Senator Kashim Shettima Mustapha (56), a Kanuri, as APC’s Presidential running mate has put the spotlight on the Kanuris again. We know the Kanuris as dogged fighters.In …
Since we started operating the Presidential System of government in 1979, no Nigerian President has been impeached. But seven governors have been impeached so far.The former Kaduna state Governor, Alhaji …
The non-inclusion of State Police in the Constitution was an error. It was a grave omission. The lapse occurred in 1976, forty-six years ago. No one could have imagined forty-six …
On my way to the annual Fanti festival, held recently at Igbosere in Lagos Island during which Lafiaji boys led by my friend, Muyiwa Adejokun lost to the Campus boys, …
I guess that history will be very kind to Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, GCFR, (May 9, 1936-11 January 2022) , why? Because his tenure was the shortest, just eighty-two …