The fraud in leadership stereotypes
WITH all due respects for all Nigerians, especially those of us that have tried to do their best in seeing…
Where hope lies for Nigeria is in our hands
Governments have come and gone, still the common and most prevalent yearning of the common man in Nigeria, is to…
Ogun Assembly exploring oversight to promote good governance
One of the key functions of the legislative arm of government is oversight of government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)…
Our vote is our voice, we should make it matter
BEGINNING from 1999 when civil governance was restored, Nigeria has been among the world’s continuously working and unbroken democracies, yet,…
PMB’s ‘ruthless’ order on ballot box snatchers
POST-COLONIAL realities in Nigeria and the ascendancy and sustenance of political merchants in corridors of power have sustained the reproduction…
Akin Alabi: Exemplary innovative Nigerian youth
In the last two decades, Nigerian governments have been preaching skills and entrepreneurial knowledge as the only way our youths…
How ASUU strike trails Nigerian students in blues and blooms
It was barely an hour after Maryam Adeyinka had tossed herself off the bed to observe the night prayer and…
Still on postponement of elections
IT is quite unfortunate that the much anticipated presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled to hold on the 16th of…
Kudos to Mahmood Yakubu and INEC
JUST like many Nigerians, I was initially pissed off by the eleventh hour decision taken by the Independent National Electoral…
Why Nigerians must keep hope alive
THE sudden postponement of the 2019 general election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) came to Nigerians as a…
Postponement of elections as a culture
ANNULMENT of elections, violence before, during and after elections, banning of candidates and postponement of elections are gradually becoming part…
Nigerian women and the 2018 primaries
LAST Boxing Day, my family hosted some loved ones. Cousins, in-laws, friends and colleagues visited us on that day. Some…
Religious and political intolerance among the youths in Nigeria
RELIGIOUS tolerance or intolerance arguably must have begun with an individual who subsequently influenced others to be similarly tolerant or…
Ikeogu Oke: Tribute to the poetic choirmaster
Goodwill and Destiny (For Wale Okediran*) We are what we are because of others With whom the heavens steer our…
Because I care
IT is exhausting. Every day, new headline. Every day, another person with a story about what happened to them. Every…
Remembering Bola Ige
ETHNO-RELIGIOUS leanings or socio-political ideology notwithstanding, it is almost improbable for any society to underestimate the contributions of some people…
Election: Reckoning with Peter Obi as a force in market engagement and mobilisation
The Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, has been on the move, ever since Atiku/Obi…
Last-minute intrigues, political sagacity enliven South West
ON Saturday, the 2019 general elections will commence with the presidential and National Assembly elections. As almost all polls and…
Things that pertain to our peace
Ihad never had the head for figures. In fact, the enmity between me and Mathematics was so bad that if…
A contest between kindred
ON Saturday, we shall make a choice between President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON on who should…
