Of Nigeria and deserved leadership
Former American president, Barack Obama once said that “people have a tendency to blame politicians when things don’t work, meanwhile,…
Between election violence and the spoils of office
NIGERIA’S elections are always a period of haemorrhage, seasons of internecine bloodletting. Just do a study of our cyclical polls.…
Success takes time
I stumbled recently on a quote by Winston Churchill on success. He says that success is walking from failure to…
Pius Adesanmi and lessons in patriotism
It is no longer news that Pius Adebola Adesanmi and 156 others (including another eminent Nigerian, Ambassador Abiodun Bashua) died…
Towards full digitisation of elections in Nigeria
DIGITAL tools and process of election will also aid smooth information dissemination during the election. These will include online voting…
Human rights to water
We have never faced a greater threat to the future of Water Rights in Nigeria than now. The federal and…
National unity: Contributions of Margaret Ekpo, Gambo Sawaba
Margaret Ekpo’s first direct participation in political ideas and association was in 1945. Her husband was indignant with the colonial…
At a crossroads
IN 2015, no room was created to interrogate the conduct of the presidential election in which an incumbent president kissed…
That we may win our nation
Pending a Supreme Court verdict in the presidential election petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku…
Subomi Balogun: The beacon of hope at 85
Those who argue that there can be no greater treasure in life than the early understanding of purpose and its…
Duro Ladipo: Remembering an iconic playwright, forty-one years after
When Duro Ladipo established the popular Mbari Mbayo Club, as a melting pot of culture in the 60s, little did…
Bishop Kukah’s stance on state of Nigerian nation, democratic process and electoral integrity
Over the years, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Reverend Dr Matthew Hassan Kukah, has demonstrated that…
Freezing accounts of tax defaulters
Recently, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (the “FIRS”) suspended its very controversial mandate to banks. The Mandate appointed banks as…
Is People’s Bank coming back? (1)
The vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, GCON, declared in Ilorin, Kwara State, recently that the Federal Government will float People’s…
Redefining the politics of development of Oyo State
Till date, new-generation politicians still make wishful references to the very robust people programmes that defined the political voyage of…
Women and societal pressure on marriage
The world celebrates International Women’s Day today and though It would seem that progress on the plank of women’s emancipation…
Jimi Agbaje and freedom of Lagos
WITH the largely bungled presidential and national assembly elections, it appears that Nigerians would still file out on March 9,…
Second term: Can Buhari reinvent himself?
We will continue to engage all parties that have the best interest of Nigerians at heart. Our government will remain…
PDP’s losing campaign in Lagos
PDP gubernatorial candidate, Jimmy Agbaje, has apparently mastered the craft of innuendo and myth-making. This time round, he has concocted…
Of blood-stained elections and flawed victories
According to John Donne, 17thCentury Jacobean metaphysical poet-cleric, “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and…
