Tag: Gimba Kakanda

Tinubu approves appointment of 18 aides in Vice President’s office

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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 18 Special Advisers and Senior Special Assistants to actualise the agenda of the Federal Government across the different sectors of the economy.   The Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, Olusola Abiola, made this known in a statement, on Monday in Abuja.   Mr Abiola said that the team comprising six Special Advisers and 12 Senior Special Assistants would work in the office of the vice president, Kashim Shettima, to support the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of the Tinubu administration.  …

Osinbajo: A Pastor’s Political Dilemma, by Gimba Kakanda

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The storm rippling across the political camp of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has initiated a difficult conversation in which, as usual, there’s no room for nuance. As the intellectual poster-child of the executive branch of the federal government, the trending colouring of the politician in two scathing critiques by US-based writer and columnist, Professor Farooq Kperogi, has left his political appeal, especially in the North, diminished.   Kperogi’s ten-point case against Osinbajo, he claimed, would instigate a “religious civil war” if overlooked. Either in assessing the Vice President’s affiliation to…

Where Do We Go From Pantami? By Gimba Kakanda

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When the spotlight on Dr. Isa Ali Pantami began, the direction of the conversation wasn’t unpredictable. The first sign of trouble was the refusal of his critics to retract their mistranslation of his conversations with the Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yusuf. A social media user, David Hundeyin, had presented that famous debate organised by the Northern clerical establishment as proof of the minister’s endorsement of Yusuf’s terrorist ideology and cult. His refusal to acknowledge that misrepresentation of a well-documented period and venturing into excavating the Pantami’s past utterances triggered a…