On the Lord’s Day

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…

The 35-day government shutdown, the longest in the history of the United States of America, was constitutional and open; but the one here involving the Lagos State Government, which is “technical” and hidden, has been on since Governor…

Ihave decided to yield this column today to two ardent readers, one from abroad and the other from the home front. Before then, the ongoing campaign is so, so drab; the two leading parties appear to be bereft of ideas; very much unlike what…

ON Thursday, January 17th, 2019, the Ondo State Government organised a first-of-its-kind “Security Summit” at the state capital, Akure, to address the security challenges that have recently plagued it. Ondo was the state where Chief Olu…

NOW, are the Igbo marginalised in the scheme of things in Nigeria? On the economic front, they do not appear so. Despite the bitterness of many Igbo against Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the Civil War, the Igbo are today at the…

LAST week we ended by saying Zik failed in 1952 to realise his ambition of being “Premier” of Western Region despite that his party, NCNC, had won the leading number of seats into the parliament while the AG of Chief Obafemi Awolowo came…

IF it is too close to this year’s General Election for the Electoral Act to be amended, as claimed by President Buhari, is it not also too close to election for “Trader-moni” to be shared by the same President Buhari to would-be voters in…

I will be economical with the truth if I say I did not expect the avalanche of readers’ reaction that trailed this column of last week. That is democracy in action! It is my inalienable and God-given rights to hold and disseminate opinion,…

ONCE again, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo stirred the hornets’ nest with his garrulous postulation that the 2019 presidential election will determine Yoruba’s fate in 2023; saying Yoruba vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 will…