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By Terfa Naswem A political analyst, Mr. Ifeduba ThankGod has criticised the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate the central command of the military to Maiduguri, Borno, to intensify the fight against Boko Haram insurgency. He described the move as the height of unprofessionalism and the most senseless decision any president has ever taken. He said this was because the people who work at the command centre were not regular combatant soldiers and as such would not contribute any more than they could from Abuja or anywhere for that matter. Mr, Ifeduba, with due respect to your profession as a political analyst, I want to let you know that when you use a “broken lens” to view issues from a far, you can’t see it very clear and your analysis will be wrong. Mr. Ifeduba, you are a professional in Political Science but I doubt if you are one in Military history or any aspect of the military especially Nigeria. You are viewing things from a layman point of...

This Article as written by media entrepreneur and Future Awards co-founder, Chude Jideonwo. This morning, my team member, Oluwatobi Soyombo and I sat in the office, and discharged our final responsibility to the Buhari Campaign Organisation – we changed the bio of the Muhammadu Buhari account across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and everywhere else to ‘President of Nigeria’. I asked Tobi for the privilege to do this myself, with my own hands. Then, as he looked at me, shocked, the tears began to follow. After sending out the tweet for the new president of Nigeria (personal tweets from him are signed –MB), I took to my own private account and shared: ‘@MBuhari better not disappoint us. This is too important. This is too important’. My team and I were offered the job to handle the communication for the Buhari campaign in November 2014. I couldn’t believe it. We had never been close to the All Progressives Congress; I had never ev...

By Terfa Naswem I almost forgot the adage which says: what a man can do a woman can do better, until three women in Jonathan government reminded me of it in the opposite direction. The women in Jonathan government which I call “The Untouchables III” namely: Patience Jonathan, Diezani K. Alison-Madueke and Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala customised corruption and became the law themselves as no one could dare touch them. Men have been known to be more corrupt than women in leadership and most aspects of life. But these three women are disgrace to womanhood and have shown that they are more corrupt than the men that once headed those offices with regard to Diezani K. Alison-Madueke and Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala. For Patience Jonathan, she followed the path of Turai Yar’Adua who turned late Yar’Adua into a mere inert resource for her diabolical schemes.       The likes of Stella Oduah -Ogiemwonyi, former Nigerian Minister of Aviation and Patricia Olubunmi ...