Nairaland Forum

6 days ago | nairaland.com | Farooq Kperogi

Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors his Yoruba ethnic group in consequential federal appointments, the presidency circulated a list of Tinubu’s appointments to countermine the firmly fixed national narrative of Tinubu’s unexampled ethnocentrism but was compelled to withdraw it because it was embarrassingly error-ridden and factually inaccurate.

1 week ago | nairaland.com | Omeiza Ajayi

2027: PDP Govs acting as Tinubu’s spoilers, killing opposition, says Atiku’s coalitionBy Omeiza Ajayi, AbujaApril 16, 2025The anti-Tinubu coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has slammed governors of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for playing the spoiler for President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general election, accusing them of usurping the powers of other organs of the PDP and killing the opposition.

1 week ago | nairaland.com | Patience Jonathan |Temidayo Akinsuyi

Patience Jonathan And The Parable Of The Unforgiving Servant By Akinsuyi by mohbadliveson: 1:30pmBy Temidayo AkinsuyiBut for divine providence, former First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Fakabelema Jonathan, may have been dead. She personally said so during a testimony she shared in 2015. According to her, during the period of her surgery abroad, many of her friends and associates even sold her property, thinking she wouldn’t make it alive.

2 weeks ago | nairaland.com | Temidayo Akinsuyi

By Temidayo AkinsuyiThere is no denying the fact that President Bola Tinubu has the highest number of media aides in the history of Nigeria, in the same manner his government boasts of the highest number of ministers. However, this cacophony of voices appears to be singing disjointed music, with the songs sounding fragmented, uneven or more like a ‘broken record’, like former Special Adviser to former President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, is wont to say.

1 month ago | nairaland.com | Jeffrey Goldberg

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. By Jeffrey GoldbergThe world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming.