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Femi Fani-Kayode David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Fani-Kayode, controversial, maverick, and feather-weight politician, is known to be loud-mouthed and inconsistent. Even in his private or family life, Femi Fani-Kayode, or FFK, as he is popularly called, is also unstable. With a privileged and distinguished parental background: his great-grand father, being one of the earliest Nigerians to be educated in England; his grand-father, a Cambridge law graduate; and his father, also a Cambridge law graduate, prominent politician and Deputy Premier of the defunct Western Region; Femi Fani-Kayode, no doubt, ...

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State Since Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), all has not been well, and Ebonyi State has not known peace, which is unfortunate. If Governor Umahi was not flexing muscles with his former political allies, now turned enemies, one group or the other would be fighting the other, and nobody would be doing anything to checkmate them. After being a member of PDP where he rose to become the State Party Chairman, State Deputy Governor, and State Governor for the past five y...

Views: 869 Years ago, as a small boy, I remember while coming into Enugu Coal City, and looking down from the Hilltop, before getting to the Milliken Hill, the entire city would be glittering, blazing, dazzling, particularly at night. It was a beautiful sight to behold, as electric lights would be shinning everywhere. We used to call it: "Obodo oku n'ewu n'enu" (a town where light shines on its top). And when you came down from the Milliken Hill, and looked to your right, you would see water gushing out heavily, and non-stop from a very big panel, with an inscription "PWD 1926". You would bec...

Views: 483 Years of crisis at both the national and subnational levels had necessitated the search for a system of governance that could bring peace, unity, stability and trust to the polity. The consensus among the people was that key political offices should not be held by only one group or section, but should be distributed in such a way as to give everybody a sense of belonging. This, in a word, is called zoning of public offices. But what is zoning of public offices? Zoning of public offices refers to the sharing, rotating, or shifting of political office(s) from one section to the other...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah Matthew Hassan Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, is not just a religious leader, he is also a social critic, and a moral crusader. Kukah is courageous, bold, fearless and outspoken. He is never given to semantics, nor to pretences. He tells truth to power, and says things as he sees them, without colouration, without painting of words, not minding whose ox is to be gored. Matthew Kukah is a stormy petrel, he is a Socratic gadfly. For more than two decades, Kukah has been in the public space, pricking the conscience of Nigerians. In his sermons on the pulpit...