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Osun Election: Victory For The People

The result of the just-concluded governorship election in Osun State still resonates across the country at deafening decibels. Everybody is celebrating the Accord Party’s...

Osun election: Between hope and fear

Hope springs eternal, and with elections just days away to determine the next governor of Osun State, we should strive to keep the hope...

President Tinubu’s Recent Lines of War

President Bola Tinubu recently set Nigeria’s political spaces on fire by declaring that “all is fair in politics”. According to the president, killing, cheating,...

Abatimania: All Hail Abuja Spin Doctor!

Let it be said that Abuja overpowering witchcraft has a bewitching power to trim and tone up the firestorm and libertarian courage of Reuben Abati and render him totally useless, voiceless and faceless like our dear Ebenezer Babatope. Whoever underrates Abuja digs his own...

Getting Nigeria on Track!

Keeping in mind that the increasingly well-informed public will only vote for parties that truly defend their interests, we hope that political parties, be they old or brand new, only strive for the interests of the people through democratic means...

Minimum Wage Brouhaha, Salary Payment Punch-ups

If governance is all about tackling and surmounting daunting challenges on entirely sacrificial note with huge results, you will need the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and David Ben-Gurion. Those beautiful ones are not yet born in Nigeria...

Princewill’s Decision So Far So Good

Princewill’s decision and love for the state riled the leadership of AC at the national level by his insistence that his decision was hinged on the need to bring change to the state...

Rivers’ Poverty Enhancement Programme

The government should always reach an understanding and operational guidelines with the people in all its endeavours instead of operating largely without recourse to set rules...

Are Technocrats Smarter than Politicians?

Why should a political leader appoint somebody who never campaigned for him or showed any interest in politics? Is it just enough to have distinguished oneself in one’s chosen field while turning a blind eye to the political affairs of one's country?

Buhari’s biggest burden

In a country where the average citizen accepts, as a matter of course, that even the best performing politicians cannot be totally free of corruption, Buhari stood out as a man of integrity. Even his most ardent critics and enemies could not link him to anything shady...

The Civil Service, Jonathan and the Ministers-a Paradigm of True Development

It is very painful that not only politicians are responsible for our shortcomings. While we complain about them we should look at the poor attitude to work by some of us in the civil service and our communities...

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Ekiti: The law as it is

The news running on the front burner in recent weeks is that the newly inaugurated government of Ekiti State has dissolved all the local councils in the state presumably manned by the PDP. Is this action legal?

Tough Guys Write Poetry

It’s the first night of our honeymoon but I...

CAF's Togo Ban: Issa Hayatou, you got it wrong

On the 8th of January 2010 the Togolese national team - The Hawks - set out for Cabinda, Angola from the Congo to commence their campaign in the African Cup of Nations. It has proved to be a serious error of judgment...

As Amaechi Wins at the Supreme Court

Amaechi should not allow anybody or group to intimidate any resident of Rivers State by making the person think that he or she is a loser...

Hijacking Democracy: Charlatans At Play

Serious nations learn from their mistakes and cultivate their democracy, always looking for ways to improve. In Nigeria, we have continuously refused to learn. The issue is the country's leadership creation process. What kind of people should occupy leadership positions?

Referendums and Metaphors on Nigeria?

Why are some Nigerians at some sort of permanent loggerheads with fellow Nigerians, and yet, these same Nigerians seem to hold on, tenaciously to every whimper about Nigeria by some nitwit foreigner?

Not A Good Time To Be A Silent Nigerian

The man dies in all who keep silent in...

Of Tinubu, Legislative Aspirants And Compromised Watchdogs

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has today become the darling...

A Language so Global…

Music is what has become the global language which every human entity seems to understand...

Dwindling Oil Revenue: The Militants And The Militating Agenda

The Ijaws and the Niger Deltans in general are becoming victims of abject neglect in this nation. The government is frowning at her responsibility to salvage the people in the creeks...