BAT 2023

In an attempt to justify the dubious process by which $1 Billion was taken from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government ostensibly to fund an anti terror war with the same Boko Haram that the Buhari administration said was ‘finished’ and ‘technically defeated’ the Zamfara state Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who is also the […]

President Trump’s recent decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has ruffled feathers across the world – but delighted Israel and some Christian evangelicals. Trump wanted to underline that he is a ‘doing President’. The truth is that since the US Congress passed the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, (which […]

As envisaged, the national political terrain has again become tensed up with a lot of intrigues that only the strong hearted will be able to wade through the minefield and come out successfully in the 2019 general election. Those who want to emerge as candidates in all the positions due for future elections have started […]

My attention has been drawn to a story emanating from a notorious opposition newspaper linked to a prominent member of the All Progressive Congress, alleging that the U.K. Department For International Development, DFID, claimed that $32 billion was lost to corruption during the Jonathan administration. Let me say that this alleged claim by the DFID […]

Actions win elections not reactions. The reactions of APC to their crushing defeat by the PDP in the just concluded Local Government election in Akwa Ibom State are comic reliefs. They got it wrong from the outset. To them, preparation for the election was to activate their so-called federal might. That has become APC syndrome […]

Since the return of Atiku Abubakar, former vice president of Nigeria, from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the political temperature of the country has risen to near-fever pitch. The move of the Adamawa-born political kingpin has left the APC writhing in pains that almost all known leaders […]

In both 2008 and 2012 I warned the world and particularly Africa and the Middle East about the evil of Barack Obama. No-one listened. In 2011 I warned the world about the consequences of removing Muammar Gadaffi for Africa and the Middle East. No-one listened. In 2015 I warned the world and Nigeria about supporting […]

Fellow Nigerians, I’ve always wondered what drives or propels the man, former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. For real, I have never seen a man so fastidious about his dream and so obstinate about achieving a lifelong ambition to be the number one Nigerian Citizen. I’ve followed his trajectory with keen interest since […]

I have just read the comments made by the Governor of Borno state at the launch of a book in Abuja on Thursday November 30, 2017. At that event, Mr. Shettima said “Jonathan’s fairytale rise to power, his sheer display of bad governance, lack of political sagacity and willpower, he squandered the array of goodwill […]

It’s exactly two years ago, in the morning of December 1, 2015, when we chatted on the phone over the security operatives that had invaded your Asokoro residence and later whisked you away as the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA). I was then in Maiduguri on an assignment. Since that day, you have remained […]

I hope Professor Itse Sagay is not going senile? How can he say “if Jonathan had another 3 years in the office, we all will be crossing Sahara to Libya”? This assertion flies against the facts on the ground. The World Bank says our economy was better under Jonathan than it is now. Transparency International […]

Hypocrisy may be the hallmark of political culture in Nigeria. It was evident when Chief Obafemi Awolowo was called to Higher Realm, as we lamented the “greatest President we never had”. With Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, gentleman, intellectual and great champion of fairness and balance in public life, it is even more sad watching the […]