Now that Atiku Has re-joined PDP – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | February 9, 2018 – On Sunday December 4 2017, Atiku finally announced that he was re-joining the PDP. The Waziri Adamawa was one of the founders of the PDP,...
View ArticleFulani Herdsmen and the Logic of False Consensus – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | NNP | February 28, 2018 -Many adults can remember the ‘class idiot’ in their primary and secondary school days. Virtually every class had its own ‘idiot’ – someone who was...
View ArticleObasanjo, Grandmaster of Timing, Changes Calculations for 2019 – Dr. Jideofor...
By Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – I was already researching for an article on Obasanjo following his recent successful defence of his PhD thesis at the National Open University...
View ArticleBuhari: Heading for a meltdown in 2019? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 10, 2018 – We are now fully in the political season. With INEC releasing the time-table for the 2019 elections, hush-hush political discussions and...
View ArticleTime to Focus on How States are Governed – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
There are lots to be read into the recent report by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission on the debt profile of various state governments in 2016. According to the Punch of March 20 2018, which...
View ArticleThis Issue Must Worry Buhari – Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | June 9, 2018 – The US government’s 2017 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria must be a source of concern to President Buhari and the country...
View ArticleGrand alliance, Ekiti Election and 2019 – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | July 21, 2018 – The buzz created by the signing on July 9, 2018, of a Memorandum of Understanding between the PDP on the one hand and over 30 political...
View ArticleWhy the Bounce from Declaring June 12 ‘Democracy Day’ May Not Last Long – By...
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | August 18, 2018 – Let’s give it to Buhari and his advisers. Whoever suggested making June 12 the country’s ‘Democracy Day’ (rather than May 29, which it has...
View Article2019 and the Road to Damascus – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, | Sept. 15, 2018 – We have now fully entered the political season – with its embedded bazaars, festivities, speeches, permutations and configurations. Most of the...
View ArticleBuhari’s ‘New Affection’ for Jonathan and the 2019 Elections – By Dr....
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | November 2, 2019 – As we nudge towards the 2019 presidential election, and with many people predicting that it will be more bitterly fought than the...
View ArticleThe Return of Nnamdi Kanu – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | November 7, 2018- The recent re-surfacing of Nnamdi Kanu, the uncouth leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Israel, raises more questions...
View Article2019: As the whistle is blown…By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | December 1, 2018 – The whistle for 2019 has finally been blown as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lifted the ban on partisan politics...
View ArticleAlleged Buhari Double and the Spirit of Public Inquiry – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasawara, Nigeria | December 10, 2018 – This week’s reflection is on a trending story that began when Buhari returned from his 104-days of medical treatment in the UK in 2017....
View ArticleDo Election Debates Really Matter? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | December 21, 2018 – Since the Vice Presidential debate on December 14 2018 between the candidates of selected five political parties, there have been...
View Article2019: Opposition Versus State Institutions – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | January 17, 2019 – 2019: Opposition versus state institutions Jideofor Adibe By the time Nigeria conducts its elections in February and March next year,...
View ArticleOpinion: What to expect from the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria
igeria’s presidential election scheduled for February 16, 2019, will be the country’s sixth since May 1999, when the military handed over power to a democratically elected civilian government. Though...
View ArticleWhy Obasanjo’s Voice Still Matters – Dr. Jideofor Adibe
Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | Feb. 9, 2019 – Obasanjo’s recent 16-page letter to Buhari, which sounds more like a state-of-the nation address, has, as expected, dominated the deadlines...
View ArticleOsinbajo and the Politics of 2023 By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 28, 2019 – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo raised the stakes in the politics of 2023 when he added his voice to the politics of ethnic baiting....
View ArticleManaging Perceptions of the 2019 Elections – By Jideofor Adibe
By Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | March 28, 2019 – Perception – also known as optics- is a belief or opinion held by people on the basis of how things seem. Our perception of any event is our...
View ArticleIs Nigerian Democracy in Recession? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | May 3, 2019 – The recent suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Judge of Nigeria has raised fundamental issues that go beyond the government’s...
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