By Farooq Kperogi The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Nigeria’s most popular Pentecostal church where Yemi Osinbajo was (is?) a pastor, issued a Feb. 28, 2022, memo, which came to light today, that hints at a massive, ground-up political operation to help its members win political offices in Nigeria. The memo talked of the […] Read more

Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors. The current senators who once served as governors are Ibrahim Gaidem of Yobe, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano, Kabiru Gaya of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, […] Read more

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has declared his support for an Igbo Presidency in 2023. Obasanjo, now an elder statesman, made this known while receiving a 2023 Presidential aspirant, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa on Thursday in Abeokuta. Obasanjo maintained that the time has come to bring total reconciliation to Nigeria by supporting a president of Southeast extraction […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Igboho, has called for dialogue in the quest for self-determination, maintaining that it can be achieved without bloodshed. Igboho said this in a statement issued on Thursday by his counsel, Yomi Alliyu, in which he sued for calm among his supporters. “He continues to preach […] Read more

MaTaZ ArIsInG The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has created the Directorate for Politics and Governance ahead of the 2023 general elections. The church, in a memo, said the newly-created Directorate is to coordinate the affairs and activities of members interested in seeking political offices in 2023. The RCCG also announced the appointment of […] Read more

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday warned that if Nigeria continues to recycle corrupt set of politicians who lack commitment, courage and understanding of… Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday warned that if Nigeria continues to recycle corrupt set of politicians who lack commitment, courage and understanding of what makes a nation and development, Nigerians […] Read more

By Ayo Dada Dele Momodu, a great journalist and the publisher of the controversial OVATION magazine, a magazine that feature wealthy and well to do Nigerians, it didn’t and doesn’t matter how they came/come about their money, as long as they are popular and can pay the magazine to feature them, to show off their […] Read more

By Wole Olaoye “One of these days, His Excellency is going to put all of us in trouble”, said G1. The governor’s security aides all had ‘G’ prefixes and were identified by their number.  “Yes, o, I was thinking so, too, when he ordered us to stop in that bush for him to pee”, replied […] Read more

Most Comprehensive Tinubu interview about his early life, struggles abroad, against military, governorship, others. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, 69,  recently returned from a medical trip abroad. It was when he came back that the issue of whether or not he will run for Presidency in 2023 started taking shape. Here is a marathon […] Read more

By Farooq A. KperogiTwitter: @farooqkperogi In today’s Saturday Tribune/Peoples Gazette column, I argue that as APC’s northern honchos look for a weak, politically rootless South-South candidate to fly the party’s flag in 2023, Tinubu’s senses defeat and wants to burn everything down: Although I have said in the past that next year’s presidential contest will […] Read more