I stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no fewer than 63 bills for the...
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HONESTY demands that I put all the cards face up on the table. And upfront. I am from the same Orlu senatorial zone as the governor...
Our society is practicing toxic gender ideas and behaviors that need to be corrected as it causes nothing but harm to the nation. The toxic culture...
I am concerned, but not shocked in any way, that the most prominent reaction to the interview that Arise News conducted last week with the Presidential...
TIMES like this try men’s souls. We have only paraphrased a saying that was made popular by Thomas Paine, an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political...
The Osun State Gubernatorial election 2022 has come and gone with the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clinching victory, defeating the incumbent governor of the ruling...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party lost the recent gubernatorial poll in Osun State. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the election with a...
We cannot play possum about it. Unity has remained a reverie, and an elusive expedition for Nigeria. We long for it, but we cannot reach it...
This day, July 19 should go down as a special moment in the economic history of Nigeria – the day when the country’s main vehicle for...
LOSING an election especially for an incumbent who the law permits to seek a second term is no fun. You can spin it by saying that...
After attacking and denigrating the detained Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the notorious ex-Niger Delta militant leader and founder of the Niger...
On the cusp of every political evolution in Nigeria, there is often a trafficking of recriminations — ‘’The north is scheming to dominate the south, and...
The ruckus that has been generated by the announcement of former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima as running mate of the Presidential standard bearer of...
PLACEHOLDER is a word that has now found favour and gained currency in Nigeria’s political lexicon. It came in the wake of the recent primaries of...
The first casualty of capricious election seasons in Nigeria is security. Governance is abandoned, and all efforts and expense are dissipated on party politics. Nigeria’s security...
In the absence of 11th hour miracle, when an assessment of performance of the Executive arm of government will be carried out on May 29 next...
EVEN countries that are formally at war do not routinely lose as many as 30 combatants in one fell swoop through an ambush by a supposed...
Interesting times await Nigerians as we march inexorably towards the 2023 presidential poll. The poll, for all intents and purposes, would be interesting in so many...
Since the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (GCON) as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the 2023 Presidential election, so many elements within the country...
Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State is the biggest issue in the politics of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the moment. To put it differently,...
ON the issue of the Indigenous People of Nigeria [IPOB] and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Nigeria’s President, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari deserves pity or sympathy or...
Nigeria is caught in a maelstrom. Ravagers roam across the land unchallenged, extracting tolls in tears and blood from citizens. They expropriate land and govern according...
Dr Ifeanyichukwu Arthur Okowa was born in 1959 at Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State. He is presently the Executive Governor of...
Yesterday, Nigerians before mid-day, were treated to the news that Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) had resigned his appointment on health grounds....
Like a ravaging epidemic, vote buying is rapidly becoming a momentary menace in Nigeria political space. Since the country returned to democracy in 1999, vote buying...
The Nigerian Senate is reputed to be the most expensive legislative institution of the state. They produce little but are rewarded abominably! Concerned Nigerians (including the...
“Wahala be like bicycle” is an expression that most people familiar with Nigerian street lingo would easily identify with. It refers the unusual, the dramatic, a...
WE are in an election season. So our governments- local, state and federal- have sufficient reasons for not governing. It’s no use asking what they have...
2022 – The world is convulsed by greed, lasciviousness, tyranny, covetousness, violence, poverty, exploitation and other social pathologies. The ides of consumerism, mercantilism and materialism have made...
Recently, Nigerians celebrated democracy day on June 12 as is the practice since 2018 when the APC regime forced it on us. And as I sat...
The clock is ticking loudly and counting down towards a new dawn for Nigeria as we head into the 2023 General election. As political drama continues...
I must start this piece by confessing that I have never met Comrade Omoyele Sowore in person before. While it is true that for the past...
Restructuring. This has been the governing subject since 2015. It became very tendentious with the secessionist agitations and the killings by gangs of criminals across the...
The auctioning of the presidential tickets of the erstwhile two dominant political parties in Nigeria, the ruling All Progressives Congress [APC] and the main opposition Peoples...
Yesterday, Nigeria declared a public holiday, and marked the 29th anniversary of June 12, 1993, the day Nigerians trooped out en masse to elect Bashorun Moshood...
Mrs Ukamaka Ejezie, popularly called ‘Mama Biafra’, was arrested outside the Federal High Court premises following the appearance of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in court weeks ago....
This current presidential election in Nigeria, since the return to democracy in 1999, is exceptional. There are many issues to consider, it is the most controversial...
A Little Fear We have come to the red-line; a point of no return – the height of making a decision. We are waiting to cross...
It has been seven years of attrition, hate-bartering and exhausting recriminations. A new epoch is on the horizon, but the psychological mutilations from these years of...
The election of President Mohammadu Buhari alias PMB in 2015 is what Nigerians have come to call the “mistake of 2015”. It was a blunder of...
IMPUDENCE. That is the word that captures the audacity of Peter Obi, trader, investor, public speaker, former governor of Anambra state and in 2019, running mate...
Last Sunday in St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo Town, Ondo State, pure terrorism was on full display as unknown gunmen invaded the church during service shooting...
The media space was awash with the video clips of the vituperation of one of the frontline presidential aspirants of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu pooh-poohing...
The executive Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, is embattled lately faced with gruesome murders, arson, terrorism and kidnappings by the so-called unknown gunmen....
The phantasmagoric kerfuffle the good people of Zamfara state, Northwest Nigeria found themselves in the past few years is cavernously monstrous, with rise in out of...
Today in much of Nigeria’s South-East, no thanks to a rash of arsons and killings blamed on those now labelled as “unknown gunmen, (UGM)” the falcon...
I have monitored with interest the clamor for the Igbo man to be given the chance to be elected president of Nigeria in the forth-coming presidential...
Foxy old Buhari. Artful. Deliberate. Unassuming but redoubtable. Principled but unaffected. He guards his mystery. He hardly betrays emotion. He keeps his real intentions secreted in...
The real criminals are insurgents in high places including special interest groups and any Government that creates a culture of violence and gives easy access to...
The just-concluded PDP presidential primaries, which ought to be a trending story in the media seem to have been eclipsed by a more worrisome development that...
