How Senate Rules are evolved and reviewed
Since the issue of how Senate Standing Orders can be changed has been subject of both ongoing civil and criminal…
Day Senator Adeleke empowered his constituents
The social contract between elected public officers and the people who voted them into offices dictates that the former should…
Fayose’s election funding: Questions begging for answers
IN the last few days, among national political issues that have dominated the news media are the freezing of the…
Day Senator Adeleke empowered his constituents
The social contract between elected public officers and the people who voted them into offices dictates that the former should…
Post-UTME: Extant or Extinct?
The last may not have been heard on the current status of post-UTME: whether it remains extant or extinct as…
The problem with dialogue!
The ongoing brigandage in the Niger Delta is to be expected the moment a government shows an inclination towards dialoguing…
NotTooYoungToRun bill: The renewed hope and future of Nigerian youths
“Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our…
Lessons from Edo APC primaries
The governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State has come and gone but the lessons learnt…
Of British colonialism and failed states
SOVEREIGN nations today would do well to reflect for a moment or so whether pre-nationhood contact with more influential foreign…
Entrepreneurship and the Nigerian malady
The debate on what government’s ideal position on entrepreneurship should be has elicited divergent economic postulations from idealists of different…
IDPs: Towards addressing a humanitarian crisis
NOT until the reported abduction of over 200 young school girls from Chibok in Borno State, North-East Nigeria in April,…
Of Brexit and Jo Cox’s murder
The death of Jo Cox, the 41-year old Labour MP murdered while going about her duty in her constituency in…
Why would anyone want Post-UTME retained?
WE must, of necessity at some point, collectively agree to break tradition, and the tradition I speak of in this…
The courts and injustice to MKO Abiola
Justice is the will of the strong and while the strong does what he likes, the weak suffers what he…
Osun Hijab brouhaha: Matters arising
The media space has been unabatedly washed with the news of the latest controversy surrounding the use of Hijab by…
Niger Delta Avengers: Avenge me not
WANTON destruction of lives and properties is now a viable venture in Nigeria. Not only is it viable, it is…
UTME cancellation: Justifying JAMB’s CBT
The Federal Government finally affirmed the supremacy of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)- conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination…
One year of Buhari’s foreign policy
SINCE Nigeria gained its independence in 1960, the country has pursued a foreign policy with an alignment to the West,…


