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October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...
When the word militancy is mentioned in the Nigerian context, the South-South zone readily comes to mind. It has become an ineluctable attribute associated with the oil rich region and has continued unabated...
Voting is your right. If you don`t vote, you have no right to grumble when an elected representative fumbles. We are all part of the whole system. We are all part of the problems. Definetely we should all be part of the solution...
The recent Delta State rerun elections and the so-called result it spewed represent the most desperate, absurd and nauseous outing undertaken in politics in recent times...
Voter registration is the most crucial of all steps involved in holding an election. Anyone with common sense would understands that voter registration and preparation of voters’ list tells it all...
In three months, Nigerians will go to the polls again. Everybody I spoke to – in Lagos, Asaba, Awka, Enugu and Abuja – was certain that fraudulent elections could spell lasting doom this time around. Yet, after witnessing the impunity that passed for party primaries, it’s difficult to be hopeful in the prospects of credible elections in April...
When President Goodluck Jonathan flew to his hometown to register on the first day of the registration exercise, we were surprised to see the INEC chairman with him right in his village in Bayelsa, “officially” performing the voter’s registration process for Mr President...
The recent revelation that members of Nigeria's National Assembly are the highest paid in the world raises significant questions not only on the need for effective checks and balances on organs of government but also fundamental issues as to the work ability of the presidential system in an emergent democracy...
April 2011 must be a mandate that is informed and result-oriented. And in this regard we only have two credible candidates in the race today. They may not be as credible as Obafemi Awolowo or...
The problem that drew me out of my comfort base today into a seemingly familiar residence in solitude and melancholy is why it is so convenient for people and public affairs commentators using a collective “we” to push blames of political and economic woes in Nigeria from “them” to “us”.
Love, respect and loyalty are the primary ingredients for patriotism. Nigerians are devoid of these ingredients. Loyalty to the country takes a back seat to ethnicity...
Two years ago, I drove from my home in central Connecticut to the quiescent country precincts of Annandale-on-Hudson to visit author Chinua Achebe, whose novel Things Fall Apart was enjoying a cheery 50th anniversary...
From Sunday January 20th an intercontinental soccer 'war' will be officially declared in AccraGhana. The African Cup of Nations, the most prestigious football bi-annual event will be hosted this year by Abedi Pele's Ghana...
The use of Information and Communication Technology in the agricultural business is gaining momentum in Nigeria with many farmers becoming aware of its importance, and consequently creating an enabling situation to maximise the advantages accruing from the scheme...
I’m not able to swear that Mr. Jakande did not take a single overseas trip, but the odds are that he didn’t. At any rate, if he traveled out of Nigeria during his governorship, he did it rather sparingly...
For too long, the Nigerian people have been held hostage, taken for a ride and forced by the few rich, powerful minority to pay a huge, back-breaking price to sustain a most obnoxious, bastardized system of government...
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