Author: Peter Tuketu
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Delta 2023 and A Message to the Decampees – By Ajerese Okpo
Politics can at times be a dubious game where principles are sacrificed for personal and selfish goals at the expense of the public good. Many a politician is in the game without ideals and sublime goals that will serve the common good. Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, captured this tendency when he enriched…
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Jakande Built Modern Lagos Before Our Eyes – By Lade Bonuola
I have restrained myself from getting involved in this kind of controversy. This was why I made a strenuous effort from being drawn into the brickbat between Bayo Onanuga/Dele Alake on the one hand and Arise News on the other despite pressure on me to say something. “Oga, this is shameful, won’t you say something…
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Lets jail INEC chairman Yakubu and CBN Governor Emefiele – By Mideno Bayagbon
In the past three weeks, there has been a rash of court cases, contrived street protests, sponsored media lynching, general hoopla and confusion about whether the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, should still be left to breathe free air, live among the…
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Between Atiku, Obi, Tinubu, who is your Man of the Year 2022? – By Mideno Bayagbon
Until the final votes of the 2023 elections are counted, any assumption as to who will emerge victorious, and be crowned President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a dice in the air. Yet it is only about six weeks away. At no time in our recent history has a presidential race been so…
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An alarm on Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu – By Mideno Bayagbon
There was a hurriedly composed, sycophantic song, which ruled the political space in Delta State, some years ago, when Chief James Onanefe Ibori held sway. It was simply known as Odidigborigbo. It was in the days when President Olusegun Obasanjo sought to get his pound of flesh from Governor Ibori, who was deemed to be…
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For Okowa, Ibori and Uduaghan: the war can’t but end now – By Mideno Bayagbon
Recently l had a flying visit to Delta State and toured the state incognito. I even attended a few of the campaign rallies where I tried to make myself as inconspicuous as possible. From Asaba, Agbor, Abraka, Eku, Warri, Effurun, Sapele, Idjere and so on, I slept in villages without light and without telecommunication supply.…
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Fact Check: Who between Gov Wike, S-South Govs lied on 13% derivation?
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is perhaps the most talked about governor in Nigeria today. And it is neither by accident nor is it a coincidence. It is a carefully choreographed and well funded strategy to dominate the national political and media space. He sure knows how to force himself, his views on the…
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Drug baron accusation, Tinubu bares his fangs – By Mideno Bayagbon
Not very many people suspected it was fake. It looked and read like a genuine copy, letterhead, reference number, signature and all. But we at TheNewsGuru.com have had to establish a tradition, especially in these political times, of verifying every document, video and even photographs.
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In Wike and Atiku fight, the heat comes on Governor Okowa – By Mideno Bayagbon
After months of a tempestuous fight and ill-fated recriminations, it is all over. The last we heard from former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is that he has given up and is walking away from the reconciliation meetings with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his…
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Now that Abuja and not Obi, Atiku, Tinubu, has become our number one problem – By Mideno Bayagbon
Nothing has de-marketed the nation, Nigeria, in the last seven years, as much as the unsolved spates of terrorist acts and the wide gamut of insecurity, fuelled by an incompetent, unfeeling government. And we have become more and more the butt of international jokes and disdain as we wobble and fumble on even the simplest…