Politics Of Lagos Igbo Property Demolitions

 By Ochereome Nnanna

The emergence of Senator Bola Tinubu as the “winner” of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship ticket on December 21,1998, unknown to many, marked a major historic turning point for Lagos State.

Ordinarily, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the man in charge of the party’s primaries in Lagos, should have insisted on a rerun. He did not, mainly because Tinubu’s contributions to Afenifere/NADECO struggle for Abiola’s mandate, especially his exile experience, endeared him to the party’s leaders above his co-contestants, such as Funsho Williams, Wahab Dosunmu, Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele and Rashid Shitta-Bey.

Nigerians, Are You Better Off Now Than Two Years Ago?

 By Dan Onwukwe

When President Ahmed Bola Tinubu barreled into office two years ago with the ill-advised “subsidy is gone”, nobody knew it was the beginning of a barrage of policy missteps that have turned into a grievance fest, leaving every aspect of Nigerian life terribly touched.

Predictably, it has been a “shock-and-awe” two years. What has unfolded before our eyes is the abandonment of virtually all campaign promises, and a deliberate intent on using the  office of the presidency to exercise raw political power and transform Nigeria, not on the aspirations of the people, but to transform the country and critical institutions in Tinubu’s own image.