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The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Ballot Box Snatchings, Results Declaration at Gun-points, and Bloated figures: Delta as Case-study

The National Assembly elections is come and in the main gone. In the main because there are areas where they were postponed and in areas where they held some persons are bound to go to the tribunals to seek redress for many reasons...

Nigeria Decides: Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari or Ribadu?

Never before in the history of the country has a general election generated such feverish excitement among Nigerians – at home and in the diaspora - like the 2011 April Polls...

We are not all guilty

We are not all guilty of thinking and surrendering to the idea that things cannot change for the better in Nigeria. Whilst a lot more can be done to improve the voting process in the country, most of those that voted were clearly satisfied with the way things went during the last voting exercise...

Rivers: The ‘Criers’ ‘Laughers’ of NASS Elections

Many of us had thought that the violent 2003 and 2007 elections would buildup to the 2011 elections, but the latter was rather peaceful, although not in the general sense of peace...

Nigeria’s 2011 Presidential Poll: What If The Vote Goes Otherwise?

Nigeria has made great strides since it gained independence from the British in 1960. Civil-War torn and ravaged by inter-ethnic prejudice, it has been able to transform itself into a state with democratic elections...

Hon Pat Obahiagbon – Farewell to the Fed House of Reps

The Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, one of the nation’s most colourful and cerebral legislators in the Federal House of Representatives will not be returning to it as a member when it reconvenes in May...

Delta’s Stranger-than-Fiction Story of Two Omo-Ageges

Ovie Omo-Agege has always been a veritable pawn in the hands of Ibori and subsequently received choice appointments under the latter...

Amaechi, David-West and I

Today, what battles and baffles me is the unflinching love Professor Tam David-West has shown me for just that article on Amaechi, even though I have written many articles buttressing reasons Amaechi should be supported...

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A Battle Chibuike Amaechi Must Fight

The Jonathan presidency, after a humbling score sheet, desires an encore and in this desire and with performance not favouring it, the regime needs every rough tactics to strengthen its quest for a second term...

The President’s Daughter?

She tells me she likes me. That she loves me. That I make her laugh. She likes it when I sponge and towel her. She tells me I reside in her soul, that she dream of me at night and daydream about me in her waking moments. I send her roses...

That we may not die in hospitals abroad

Last year 2023, the tragic news of the death...

Jega: We Must Have A Perfect Election in 2011

For the third time in recent times, I have read the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega warn us not to expect perfect elections in 2011. From all possible indices, that warning has become his most passionate response to our collective and unflagging demand for electoral sanity...

Still on Tinubu, Aregbesola and Oyetola

That I hesitated to write this piece is intentional....

Python Dance and the Trials of Muhammadu Buhari

In between 1986 and 1990; Nigeria had a Prof....

The Erosion of Nigerian Democracy: INEC, the Political Class, and the Role of the Electorate

Nigeria, once celebrated for its transition to democracy in...

Revolution or revolt eruption?

The lesson for the youths, trade unions, labor unions, students unions, and other democratic associations in a repressed polity is to educate their members about the need to understand the basic revolutionary ingredients needed to change power from the hand of the few oppressive elite into the hands of people centered democrats...

BOSAS International Law Bureau vs OPEC

Whereas Minister Allison Madueke is very well-known to OPEC and the international oil producing countries as a knowledgeable technocrat, the OPEC, it is reported, refused to appoint her to the post she was recommended to fill by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the discriminatory basis that she is a woman...

Changing perceptions as Nigeria’s milestone

The messages emanating from Nigeria appear mixed. On one hand, we are witnessing some positive news and on another hand, we are confronted with some serious and dangerous trends in our match towards nationhood...