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Hello! Be Wise As The Campaigns Begin

Barring any divine intervention, and never ruling out the unpredictability of the cosmic regime, the 2027 general elections in Nigeria will be held. The...

Nigeria Is Dying In Bondage

The calls came to me in quick succession - from the United States and some cities in Nigeria - concerning the health and accommodation...

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...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Dummy OBJ Sold Nigeria

It is beginning to appear to me late in the day that President  Umaru Yar'Adua was imposed upon us not because of his ability to transform Nigeria but more for the opportunity to wrong foot and outwit the then Vice President Atiku...

Yar’adua and His Sickness

Last June, Yar'Adua was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his Asia vacation. In August another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed...

A Call To Duty

In a democratic system, we should not keep mum when wrong steps are taken by government. We should start fighting against unpopular government policies...

Revisiting the University of Port Harcourt ‘Gang War’

I have been made to understand that Ikezam’s murder was not inadvertent. It has been said that the murder was purportedly prompted by his victimization of some students who felt that they needed to pay back hatred for hatred...

How Rashidi Ladoja Embarrassed Ibadan People

If Ladoja spent most of his term fighting Adedibu and about a year on “impeachment” his ability to gobble N8 billion smacks of nothing but ingenuity. Where was this man’s conscience when residents of Alaadorin in Ibadan told him that they had not had pipe-borne water for over 20 years?

PDP Domination: Blame the Opposition

Some of the opposition leaders should be blamed for contributing to the death of viable and sustainable opposition politics in the country since the advent of this democratic journey nine years ago...

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

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Suspending Do-Or-Die Politics

The political process in Nigeria has evolved in a particular direction, corresponding to the characteristics of political activists and the incentive-structure to reproduce the political system...

Landmark Elections and the Winning Formula

A closer examination has revealed that most landmark elections witnessed large voter turnouts. June 12 1993 presidential election in Nigeria had large voter turnouts. Same happened on June 12 2009 presidential elections in Iran...

From Olusegun Obasanjo – In His Best Element!

Fellow 'Wazobians' at home and abroad, my son Gbenga was instigated by my many enemies to go public with an 'incest' allegation against me, his distinguished father. Well, he seems to have come to his manipulated senses now...

Is Bola Tinubu Really a Master Strategist?

In the days and weeks before Bola Tinubu became...

Is It Me? Or Did Abdulrahman Danbazzau Just Defy The Presidency?

Ok, I’m still trying to rationalize this. The commander in Chief just got usurped by the Chief of Army Staff?  This is beyond Ordinary. I thought the Chief of Army staff was a few Offices removed from the Presidency!

The Verdict of History and the Arrogance of Power

Milsovic and Karadzic have paid the supreme price for...

Still Nigeria Rises

Boko Haram, MEND, bombings, kidnappings, political schemings and all, can only but last a moment. Battered though Nigeria might be by all your efforts...

Bombs as wages of complacency

President Goodluck Jonathan reportedly said: “Terrorists will aim at the top. If they can bomb the President, they will do it.” He was spot on. Boko Haram have never disguised the fact that they would kill the president or the governor of a state if they could...

Fugitives In Own Country

Persons of interest who pandered to the whims and...

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…