The 2019 presidential elections may have come and gone, but the effects will be felt in Nigeria for a very long time. Apart from the 2007 general elections, the 2019 presidential elections is presently regarded […]
Divorce is a word closely associated with marriage, but it is also used in other domains to carry the same meaning as it would when used in the context, especially when that subject has the […]
“If you go to court you will win but there will be war and Nigerians will be massacred. Please accept the results as the will of God” – Sultan of Sokoto to Atiku Abubakar. The […]
As the central bank and apex monetary authority of the country, the major regulatory objectives of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as mirrored in the institution’s enabling Act are to maintain the external reserves of the country, promote monetary stability, […]
I woke up several times peeping for the first sign of dawn before my phone finally rang at ten-past-six. A family friend who suspected we would be voting at the same place wanted to know […]
Pending a Supreme Court verdict in the presidential election petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari remains provisional – or at best tentative. Both […]
If Mark Zuckerberg were like Nigerian Facebook users, he wouldn’t have founded the platform on which many young people burn their time and internet data. Once in a while, since I joined the online medium […]
The dusts generated by the conduct and outcomes of the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly have yet to settle. The reason is that the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji […]
Turkey was hailed as an example for a modern Muslim democracy during the early 2000s. The current ruling party that came to power in 2002 implemented reforms that were aligned with the European Union’s democratic […]
Nigeria is the world’s fifth largest federation after India, the United States, Brazil and Russia. Almost 60 years after independence, Nigeria’s political leadership has rather been incapable or unwilling to make the necessary effort to respond to […]
Abuja is the home of opulence and luxury living. From the best house design to the latest ultra modern car model, the Nigerian capital is a showcase, the city with probably the largest concentration of […]
Critical scholars have characterized contemporary systems of government that claim to be democracies as mere “electocracies” because the vast majority of people actually don’t vote, which denudes such systems of their claims to being governments […]
An essay titled Okota: The Igbo Question, Jimi Agbaje, Afenifere And The Rest Of Us written by Femi Kusa, highly respected in print journalism, raised dust in the social media circuit. The essay was a […]
As the final results of last week’s presidential poll were released, three broad groups emerged: Those genuinely surprised that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lost; those in pretentious denial of his defeat; […]
ONITSHA (Press Release) – The present central Government of Nigeria is dangerously pushing the country to the brink of abyss or bottomless chasm of fragmentation and intractable citizens’ radicalism. A new dangerous dimension has been […]
The die is cast. To use a hackneyed phrase. Nigerians have voted. The frenzied opinions and partisan excesses that escalates ofttimes into literary and physical fisticuffs may now ease up. Now we await the results […]
The history of free men was not made by chance but by choice. If we really want to be free we must find the courage to resist the tyranny and evil that has overwhelmed and […]
Let me start by being upfront about my biases/feelings so no one’s time is wasted Sai Bye Bye, hopefully President Buhari, by his own admission, dislikes the Nigerian elite. I consider myself, by the grace […]
Nothing unites citizens like a prosperous commonwealth. A country without prosperity is a country at war with itself. History is a guide: The Greek Empire was progressively united when the commonwealth was prosperous for all. […]
The evil things people do ostensibly to make money have continued to multiply in this country. Everyone should be worried about young people, especially those from the south-east and south-south of Nigeria. Criminals of all […]
Not until Muntader al-Zaidi’s act of suicidal daring was the world jolted to shoe-throwing as a form of Arab expression of deep social anger. Visiting President George Bush was only beginning to warm into a joint press […]
On the eve of the rescheduled February 16 presidential and national assembly elections, I got a call from my illiterate 86-year old mother from Owo in Ondo State, advising that I should exercise caution during the […]
Calls for the removal of INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, following the eleventh hour shift in the date of the scheduled Presidential/National Assembly Elections; are totally dangerous, counterproductive and a fresh trap set by the […]
On April 2, 2011, INEC shifted the national assembly election by seven days (to April 9), citing “logistics and operational” problems. And it took this decision while voting had already commenced in some parts of […]
NASS Should Audit and Probe INEC through a Commission of Inquiry. In the dead of the night when most Nigerians were asleep, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced the postponement of the general elections […]
The loud-mouth, complacent supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari seem oblivious of the facts on ground. The president’s cyber, run-of-the-mill hero-worshipers appear even more upbeat without taking time to weigh their candidate’s weight on the facts […]
“Should Buhari win, we as citizens must be prepared for two things. The first should be to stretch the great endurance for which we are known. The power centres within the Buhari presidency would assert […]
The Cypher is said to wish that his “cold and iron” dispensation is revalidated on Saturday February 16, 2019. It cannot be realistically stated that, deep down, he really and truly yearns reelection. He is […]
That Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State was the first to oppose the imeobi Ohanaeze decision in endorsing the PDP ticket of Atiku and Mr Peter Obi is to say the least, disgusting, shameful and […]
If you walk by sight you cannot help approaching Saturday’s presidential election with a heavy heart. The candidates of the two major parties, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of […]
“Obasanjo is expired milk, dump him in the dustbin”– Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an ugly and repugnant little creature who lives in and presides over the affairs of Lagos state. He comes […]
Who misadvised President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Samuel Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, using the instrumentality of an ex-parte order procured at the black market? Here, Danladi Umar and Julie Anabor […]
Who misadvised President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Samuel Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, using the instrumentality of an ex-parte order procured at the black market? Here, Danladi Umar and Julie Anabor […]
Who misadvised President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Samuel Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, using the instrumentality of an ex-parte order procured at the black market? Here, Danladi Umar and Julie Anabor […]
Nigeria’s brand of democracy looks like a HIV/AIDS patient. Its health deteriorates with each round of elections. The incidence of violence before, during and after polls has risen steadily from 1999. Vote-buying is the new […]
It is a good development that the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has come back to reckoning. This is a party that was founded to promote the unity of Nigeria under a […]
On December 26 every year we come together as a people of Uvuru Ikedinairi to bask in the warmt and conviviality of Christmas and celebrate the uniqueness of being Uvuru sons and daughters. This tradition […]
These days Nigeria is treated as either the continent’s worst joke or the world’s laggard for democracy. From Nairobi to Brussels and from London to Washington, we’re getting lengthy lectures on how not to run […]
There is an aphorism: “birds of the same feather flock together”; which could rightly be applied to the relationship that exists between President Muhammadu Buhari and his chief of staff, Mallam Abba Kyari. President Buhari known […]
Everywhere you turn in Nigeria, there’s a drama of the absurd to watch. The issue of the national minimum wage is one of them. An assembly of former and current leaders of the country (the […]
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