Author: TheLagosianMagazine

Seye Akanmu-Bode With love from Niger otensibly was the message from the two Nigerien governors that came calling in Kano during the week. I can imagine what the Nigerian government and its military apparatus would have been saying by now if it was the PDP that had in its midst the governors from the neighbouring Niger to the Kano rally of the APC. Just two weeks ago,the international community had a cause to warn the government on the need for a free and credible election this February in Nigeria. The Nigerian government took offence with such interference in our domestic…

By Abu-ubaida Ibrahim Kuna Gombe State People’s Democratic Party’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Usman Bayero Nafada has said that he will build on Dankwambo’s legacies if elected in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. Sen. Nafada disclosed this at a meeting with members of the Gombe Concerned Citizens Forum. He said that he was sure, “everyone in Gombe state must attest to the facts that the administration of Governor Dankwambo has done remarkably more than words can express’’. “Dankwambo had laid the foundation of good governance in Gombe State, everyone of us have seen that Gombe state has changed from the lower…

Naomi Osaka on Saturday became the first Asian, male or female, to get to the pinnacle of tennis as World Number One. This was after she defeated World Number 8, Czech’s Petra Kvitova 7-6, 5-7,6-4 to win the first grand slam of the year. Osaka also became the first player to win back to back grand slam titles since Jennifer Capriati. Her victory this time around was without any acrimony compared to the US open final against Serena Williams. Her victory as challenged the notion that a fully fit Serena will win any grand slam she features in. We can…

By Abu-Ubaida Ibrahim Kuna. The city of Kaltungo became a political Mecca of sorts as People’s Democratic Party, PDP faithful from all over the north and beyond converged in the headquarter city of Gombe South Senatorial district to kick-start the gubernatorial and the general PDP state wide campaign in the last bastion of the party in the north east. The rousing event occurred today, 21st January, 2019. The gubernatorial candidate, Sen. Bayero Nafada displayed infectious optimism with the state governor, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of a resurgence of PDP in the North East as the party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku…

By Fred Chukwuelobe Yes, I am. I Just left a hotel in Enugu where I’ve been staying since yesterday. I opted for a low budget hotel because times are hard. But that’s not the story; the story is that the hotel is in bad shape, badly run and supervised by a bunch of frustrated staff who, from the look of things, are poorly remunerated. Again, that not the story. The sad story is that the hotel’s main guests are Yahoo boys and girls in their 20s. Don’t ask me how I know they are Yahoo boys and girls. I know…

Strong speculations were rife last night with the surprise visit of the PDP Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar GCFR to Washington DC. Prior to this surprise visit by Atiku, accompanied by prominent members of the opposition PDP including Senate President Sàràkí and popular Senator Ben Murray Bruce, there had been insinuations that the candidate was afraid to travel to the States for the fear of being detained by the Americans for yet uncertain reasons. The visit yesterday put to rest that line and perhaps set in motion another series of permutations from both sides of tree tree political divide. Last night,…

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgar Imohimi has been re-deployed. In a much-anticipated move. The police was replaced with Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, who will function in acting capacity. Imohimi is moving to the post of Commissioner of Police in charge of Explosive Ordinance Unit at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. Edgal Imohimi assumed office as Lagos CP on August 31, 2017. Before then, he was the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations in Lagos State.

By Abu-Ubaida Ibrahim Kuna As facts continued to emerge during the January 12, 2019 Press briefing by ten out of the eleven “Garkuwa Saidu Local Govt Coordinators for Friends of ATIKU Organisation in Gombe State”, the multifarious factors that compelled Saidu Kumo to once again jump ship from the PDP to the APC are now falling into identifiable lines. Eyebrows were raised when one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides on New Media, Bashir Ahmed tweeted on Friday thus: “Senator Saidu Umar Kumo from Gombe and North East DG Atiku/PDP Presidential Campaign Council has dumped PDP and joined the moving train…

Being a paper presented by Abu-Ubaida Ibrahim Kuna at Bayero Each One Mobilize One Hundred Project Symposium Lecture on 30th December, 2018. INTRODUCTION I have been invited to speak on the role of social media in political campaigns and I should say it is an expansive topic to tackle within a very short notice. However, let me bring the topic home to most of us by trying to rephrase the topic. I think the subject matter would make more meaning and therefore capture the attention of many people if we talk about the place of young people in contemporary democracies.…

By Odolaye Aremu I miss my family as a Unit. My dad, my mum and all of my siblings, who I usually outmaneuvered yearly, to be the one to have the first meal delivered to my grandad. You see the family is the bedrock of any society. And that’s not totally different from where I am from. The dynamics of the African family is such, that love and good memories stay salient at the bottom like slices of yams in a pot, sitting on a hot stove. The scathing letter writings and silly cat fights come much later, it causes…