On the Lord’s Day

As would be expected, a flurry of activities is hallmarking Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s last days in office. Last Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari was in Lagos on a one-day working visit during which he commissioned many signature projects…

“But let justice run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream” – Amos 5:24.“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... I must confess that I am not afraid of the word ‘tension’... Freedom is never voluntarily…

IMMEDIATE past governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, is one opponent the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will not forget in a hurry. The enfant terrible was, and still is, a torn in the flesh of Mr Muhammadu Buhari.…

THE video of Senator Ademola Adeleke dancing as he gave thanks for penultimate Friday’s favourable verdict of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has gone viral. Everyone by now knows Adeleke as the dancing senator. When…

LAST Friday’s decision of the Osun election petition tribunal to shoot down the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governor, Gboyega Oyetola, while affirming “dancing PDP Senator” Ademola Adeleke, as the duly elected governor of “the…

READING my “Now Amosun, Okorocha have repeated OGD’s mistakes...” (“TREASURES” column, New Telegraph of Wednesday, 13 March, 2019 Back Page), a reader asked why I did not include Oyo State’s Gov. Isiaka Ajimobi in the list. The reason is…

CARPET-crossing as a slang which entered our political lexicon in the First Republic has been upbeat since the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1999. In the then Western Region where it first became notable, it reared its head as smaller…

Penultimate Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections are sad reminders of how elections generally have been in this country since pre-Independence period – warped, rigged, and discredited; thus tearing us apart rather than…

IN addition to all of President Muhammadu Buhari’s gaffes during the 2015 electioneering campaign must now be his shoot-on-sight order against election offenders or, specifically, against ballot-box snatchers during the rescheduled…

BY the time you are reading this, the likelihood is that the results of the presidential and National Assembly election of yesterday (Saturday, February 16th, 2019) would have been out partially or in full. Whether our democracy has matured…