Nyesom Wike’s governance tactics exhibit strong continuity from his Rivers State governorship (2015–2023) to his current role as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) since August 2023 under President Bola Tinubu. His approach remains assertive, enforcement-heavy, project-focused, and politically muscula, often described as turning governance into a “contact sport.” Supporters praise decisive action and …
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What public figure do you disagree with the most? Adverse effects not territorially restricted to just his own country. No redeeming qualities just hot air and self interest.
What’s the most interesting local custom you’ve encountered? In Nigeria, if you are wearing a hat or any form of headgear, and you enter a premises, there is no obligation to remove it. While in England, it's usually customary to remove your headgear. On UK television you hardly see any anchors wearing a headgear but …
There is an old journalistic adage, attributed variously to everyone from New York editors to Fleet Street drunks, that a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is. Nigerian political journalism, however, long ago exhausted even that modest standard of novelty. In Nigeria, the dog bites. The man bites …
There is a particular species of political movement that thrives in opposition the way certain fungi thrive in darkness, not merely surviving but positively luminous with grievance, indignation, and the righteous fury of people who have been, in their own expert estimation, catastrophically wronged. Nigel Farage and his merry company of insurgents at Reform UK …
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