Nigeria

Progressively Shameless: Of ORO, Protesters Against Protest, Dissociaters And The Tinubu Presidency.

Progressively Shameless: Of ORO, Protesters Against Protest, Dissociaters And The Tinubu Presidency.

When some citizens during the last General Elections decided to desecrate ancestral values, norm and tradition by deploying the ORO Traditional programmatic to stop Nigerians of other ethnicity from Voting in Lagos and or mobilizing to stop President Bola Ahmed Tinubu then a candidate from winning the Presidential election, little did they know that the gods would be angry. More than one year into the Tinubu Administration, it is apparent that the government lacks direction. As a Mystic and one vast in Metaphysics I can boldly say that the gods are angry. And rather than appease the gods, they have…
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Tinubu Aide Challenges Peter Obi to Lead Protesters in Person

Tinubu Aide Challenges Peter Obi to Lead Protesters in Person

Bayo Onanuga, an aide to President Bola Tinubu, has issued a statement calling on Peter Obi to take an active role in the upcoming protests. Onanuga suggested that Obi, who has endorsed the planned demonstrations, should openly lead the protesters, just as Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari did in the past. Onanuga's statement comes as the country prepares for a 10-day nationwide protest against economic hardship, scheduled to begin on August 1. Obi's endorsement of the protests has sparked debate, with some calling on him to take a more visible role in the movement. By challenging Obi to lead the…
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Protests: Tinubu’s Real Troubles Are Just Beginning

Protests: Tinubu’s Real Troubles Are Just Beginning

By Farooq A. Kperogi - Twitter: @farooqkperogi In light of his planned astronomical hike in petrol prices euphemistically called “subsidy removal” in 2023, which his opponents also promised to implement and caused Nigerians embrace as inevitable and desirable, I foretold the imminent social convulsion that is gathering momentum across Nigeria now. “I can assure Tinubu that if petrol price hikes deepen people’s misery, he’ll have a tough time governing,” I wrote in my April 29, 2023, column. I followed this up with more than half a dozen columns on the same theme. When you remove subsidies from an all-important product…
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A Protest Long Overdue. A Protest Made In Heaven. A Protest Orchestrated By Karma, Delivered To The Gen. Z. Africa Rising!

A Protest Long Overdue. A Protest Made In Heaven. A Protest Orchestrated By Karma, Delivered To The Gen. Z. Africa Rising!

I'm compelled to script these words to put the issues before us in proper perspective. To advise Leadership correctly. And to help create order in the emergent chaos fueled by Political Operators, Agents of State and Spokespersons of Government. I must inform them here and now that to desperately seek to stifle the political space, to strangle the freedom to hold contrary opinion and to Nicodemusly outlaw the right to protest and the freedom of assembly is the greatest threat to peaceful protestation and demonstration. That the planned protest is long overdue is truer than the reality of night and…
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Video: Setting the Record Straight: Peter Obi Not Behind Calls for Protest – Nwaokobia

Video: Setting the Record Straight: Peter Obi Not Behind Calls for Protest – Nwaokobia

https://youtu.be/8taLwgQgYzs?si=r2nSCiscpP3O5-85 In a recent turn of events, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Onanuga, made a startling allegation against Peter Obi, the Labour Party's presidential candidate. Onanuga claimed that Obi was behind the calls for protest, sparking widespread controversy and debate. However, in a swift response, Prof Mustapha Chris Nwaokobia Jnr, a close associate of Peter Obi, has come out to categorically deny the allegation, labelling it as "completely false." According to Nwaokobia, Peter Obi is a peaceful and law-abiding individual who would never resort to inciting violence or unrest. He emphasized that Obi's commitment to…
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