MaTaZ ArIsInG THIS FFK SEF! OPEN LETTER TO JAGABAN OF BORGU …. By Femi Fani-Kayode My dearest Jagaban, You know very well that I have always liked and respected you. You will also recall that a few years ago I warned you that everything that is being done to you today would eventually be done […] Read more
By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In this week’s column, I reflect on the nature of political PR in Nigeria, which is often no more than vulgar abuse of critics and opponents and little or no attempt at logic and persuasion. I also tackle the twisted logic of people who want Goodluck Jonathan back to power. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan on Friday addressed supporters who have been clamouring for him to join the 2023 presidential race During a visit to his office on Friday morning, the former president told those who stormed his private office in Abuja to demand he declares for the 2023 presidency that the […] Read more
By Farooq Kperogi The Buhari regime’s pardon of former Plateau State governor Joshua Dariye and former Taraba State governor Jolly Nyame who were serving time in prison for corruption is causing outrage, but I think the outrage is misplaced, even unjustified. The real outrage, for me, is the invidious selectivity of a judicial system that […] Read more
There was spontaneous public display of anger and frustration within and outside the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday as the party fixed the cost of its nomination and expression of interest forms for the presidential ticket at N100 million per aspirant. How do you simultaneously tell young people that they CAN and CAN’T run […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday ruled out using a consensus process to select its presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 general election. The party, on the other hand, claimed that its presidential candidate would be chosen in an indirect primary. The decision was made at the Transcorp Hotel in Abuja […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu has disowned posters portraying Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as Judas Iscariot. Former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu has disowned posters portraying Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as Judas Iscariot. The materials likened Osinbajo, his former Commissioner for Justice, to Judas who betrayed Jesus Christ. A statement by Tinubu’s media office […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Bola Tinubu has said Nigerians were disconnected from the national power grid in one of several controversial comments he made during a recent campaign stop. On Sunday, the former Lagos governor was at Onikan Stadium with thousands of his supporters and lamented Nigeria’s moribund power infrastructure. “And yet we started disconnecting from NIPP […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 18 April, 2022) “Someone who should know told me that our next president has not declared yet; that all those who have so far declared won’t be president.” I call him my mystery friend from the north. I have never met him. He comes around into […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG He said the elections should be suspended until Nigeria has “a new-look peoples’ constitution” that has part-time legislators and non-executive president. Legal icon and elder statesman, Afe Babalola, has stressed that the 2023 elections should be suspended to avoid electing the same current crop of incompetent leaders. Mr Babalola, during a news conference […] Read more
