By SKC Ogbonnia…. Upon being re-elected, President Muhammadu Buhari endeared himself once again to the citizenry when he promised to show significant improvement in his second...
The Eighth National Assembly is gradually rounding up, and the ninth National Assembly is due to be inaugurated in June 2019. As some actors bow out,...
The life of a cat in Europe is much more valuable and protected than the life of a Nigerian living in Nigeria. In fact, there is...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… When Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones- both Professors at the London Business School in their report titled; why must anyone be led by...
By Joseph Edgar… This matter between Guarantee Trust Bank and its wealthy trader cum manufacturer customer is generating a lot of interest in the system. Different...
By SOC Okenwa… I met Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa alias Charly Boy decades ago in Benin City when he was still a boy. Now, he is a...
By Chiemeka Iwuoha… So now, where are the all-too powerful ex-Nigerian military generals who, prior to the 2019 general elections vowed over their dead-and-dying-bodies in letters,...
By Reuben Abati … The 2019 general election in Nigeria has been described by international and local observers, stakeholders, direct participants and the electorate themselves as...
By R. B. Dagogo-Jack… FACTS: In the 2015 elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), controlled the Federal Government of Nigeria FGN, and the All Progressives Congress...
By SOC Okenwa… Like Nigeria Algeria is rich in both human and natural resources (especially the black gold). Its population is estimated at more than 42...
By Agada Ikechukwu… Amidst the sea of legal crisis, daylight betrayal where several bigwigs switched loyalties to gain political appointments and advantages; some remained steadfast like...
By Fredrick Nwabufo…. Ademola Adeleke’s victory at the Election Petition Tribunal is a locus classicus for democracy. It jogs the cerebral cortex and revivifies cautious hope...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… When we are wrong we must accept the fact like this writer: that no power could defeat South-south and North-central if they...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… You must understand that some things do not happen naturally here. Protests, in particular, are not organic or “an act of God”, at...
By Collins Ughalaa… Although it is not clear that Joseph Goebbels, the nefarious Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany, ever said it, but he is...
By Jude Ndukwe… Since the National Assembly elections ended in Kwara on March 9, and the current Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, lost at the polls,...
By Olawale Rasheed … Nigerian democratic experiment has passed through several phases.The turbulence of the polity can be demoralizing and the contestation can be truly ungodly.In...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Like every crisis that has its dangers and opportunities, this piece stems from a recent discussion I had with a very unique Nigerian–a...
By Reuben Abati … Here is yet another account of what I saw in the politics of Ogun State and Nigeria. One of my early teachable...
By Joseph Edgar…. Let us talk about how the lack of positional play in Nigeria’s nascent politics is the bane of our political maturity. Our players,...
By SOC Okenwa… The much-anticipated general elections in Nigeria had come and gone with controversies still trailing them. To the surprise of a few amongst us...
By Val Obienyem… Nigeria is a country replete with contradictions, which have posed great challenges to our meaningful and sustainable development. Last December, I travelled from...
By Collins Ughalaa… There is a popular saying among the Igbo people, that anyone who sees a hen scattering excreta with its toes and eating same,...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Building a cohesive society starts with delivering justice to all and protecting the interest of not just a few, but all in the...
Farouk Martins Aresa… Many Nigerians, Ghanaians, Dahomeans, Sierra Leoneans, Liberians to South Africans were happy as one family; they would gladly tell you gleeful stories when...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… To an extent, what the 2019 general election has established is that the people are still the repository of power. Really, has it...
Nigerians have been fair and patient with Muhammadu Buhari. However, there is a limit to reasonable fairness, in the midst of continuous provocation. In my extensive...
By Reuben Abati… Whoever came up with the wise saying that Nigerian politics is dirty deserves an award for perspicacity. I have just returned from that...
By Victor Terhemba and M. Hicks … Divorce is a word closely associated with marriage, but it is also used in other domains to carry the...
The presidential and parliamentary polls of Saturday 23rd of February this year had come and gone controversially but the political repercussions are still here with us....
Governing a state in Nigeria is equivalent to, or more demanding than, ruling some countries in Africa and the world. For instance, the Governor of Lagos...
By Omoshola Deji… Nigeria’s huge population and profitable politics make the struggle to occupy public office intense. Many do wrongs to have their way and the...
Now, I begin to wonder what must have driven him to make the call. Demola Oshodi is a technocrat. A brilliant young professional and a senior...
By Omoshola Deji… Power is transient. Owning it doesn’t mean it’ll always be yours. Aiming for it doesn’t mean you’ll get it. Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s onetime...
By Fr Livinus Onogwu… Political temperature is settling in Nigeria after the hotly contested presidential election which albeit marked with logistical issues has given Buhari of...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… I learned a valuable lesson on Sunday 3rd March, 2019 during my participation at the holy mass as a Catholic Christian in one...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… And the Supreme Being commissioned Oduduwa, a “sky-god”, to carry out a terrestrial task; he descended from heaven with a cockerel which had...
By Louis Odion Both I have known for over a decade. Having reported national politics in my close to thirty-year career in journalism and privileged to...
By Joseph Edgar… If you have not seen the video of the distribution of rice by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate at Alausa, then you...
Election in every democratic nation is the process whereby every qualified citizen expresses his/her democratic/civic right and duty by freely voting in representative(s) of their choice...
Surprisingly the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the official winner by wide margin of the presidential...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… How are the mighty fallen? The good news is that some Nigerians are getting better, wiser and sober when choosing and rejecting...
Nation-building is not perfunctory; it is deliberate, planned and decisive. A country as enormous, diverse and delicate as Nigeria cannot evolve organically when a part of...
By John Chukwu…. Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I have always wanted to write an open letter to you concerning the state of affairs of our great...
By Joseph Olaoluwa… The 2019 General Elections have been a stomach upset for some people if not most. It is bitter sweet, or should I say...
By SKC Ogbonnia… The outright rejection of the results of the 2019 national election by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), even before the final votes were...
By Fredrick Nwabufo… Dynasties rise and fall. It is a natural order. But there are factors which precipitate the declension of dynasties. For example, the rise...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… Given my preceding accreditation as a Domestic Electoral Observer by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), I took an early trip on Saturday...
By Joseph Edgar… Official reports emerging show that the Senate President may have lost in his comeback bid. This, on the face value, is looking like...
By SOC Okenwa… Last Saturday the presidential poll finally took place in Nigeria after having been postponed controversially for one week. The crucial presidential and legislative...
