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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,...

Jonathan: Looking Back From the Future

Mr. Jonathan’s circumstances are as tricky as Mr. Obasanjo’s in 1999, and his prospects, on the face of it, seem just as unpromising as the former president’s...

Poor management bedeviled refuse disposal in Onitsha and Anambra state

Governor Obi cannot afford to give lip service to the issue of refuse collection and disposal because the wellbeing of the residents of Onitsha and Anambra State will be greatly impacted by environmental degradation due to incompetence and dereliction of duty...

Great achievements, ideas and innovations have eluded South East Governors

Ideas and innovations do not wait until resources are available to act. Rather they are the precursors of capital and resources...

Ohakim as Imo Governor: The Pains Behind The Pay!

Governor Ohakim assumed office with such pomp and panache that reinvigorated hopes and enthusiasm in the minds of Imo people who had been cruelly short-changed in the immediate past; but the present nostalgic feeling of that forgettable past is a testament that the governor has performed more in words than in action...

NYSC: Before the cord is broken

The recent strident and repeated calls on the Federal Government of Nigeria by a broad spectrum of the population to review, or completely scrap the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme may not be misplaced after all...

The cost of life

What is the cost of life to human creation? Health is often neglected when it is supposed to be accorded an important place; a lorry load of people die almost everyday on Nigerian roads; citizens die mostly from preventable deaths...

2011 General Elections: So Far, So Good

The just concluded 2011 general elections in Nigeria have been widely acclaimed to be successful but not without the usual problems, drama and controversies which characterize Nigeria’s elections since independence...

The 2011 General Elections Debates

Nigerian electorates are getting wiser by the day and can no longer be taken for granted. Politicians must learn to come forward and speak on issues that matter most to the voters...

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The US Immigration Debate

Because of what America is and because of what America offers, there may never be a fail-safe or perfect immigration policy...

The Worth of the Life of a Nigerian

The recent murder of a Nigerian young man Mr Osamuyia Aikpitanhi by the Spanish officials has continued to generate justifiable opprobrium, especially from the large Nigerian Diaspora community...

Rivers: Those That Would Abandon Amaechi

Around Amaechi are people one could call spoilers within. They are sharks that swallow both the small and big for the hunger of wealth...

Nigeria: How Not To Mismanage the Covid-19 Pandemic

Even though by 2015, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party...

Oil Gas Industry Activity and the Niger Delta Environment: The Role of Environmental Law

Practically all stages and operations of oil & gas exploration and production are accompanied by undesirable discharges of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes. They include many hundreds of individual hazardous compounds...

Ndigbo: Their waning Economic Influence in Nigeria

Much as the Ibos cry over political alienation and marginalization by the Federal Government over the years, what has our collective leadership done to bring a creative turn around?

Nigeria-US Diplomatic Relations Revisited

On October 1, 1960, Nigeria became an independent, sovereign...

Police Attack On Fayemi, Ekiti Election and the 2015 Elections

From whatever perspective one views it, the brutal attack on Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, a serving senator, the leadership, members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti who are on a peaceful rally by a detachment of mobile police men led by a Bayelsa-born police officer, forewarns of the dire dangers ahead as 2015 approaches...

Strategic Factors and Options: The Credibility of the Ijaw Nation

The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

Dictatorship of the Progressives

There was a time in in this country when...