The African Democratic Party was at this time last year a nondescript organisation struggling to stay afloat as a political party. Ralph Nwosu, the founder of the party, had turned the chairmanship of the party into something of a life appointment in which he had served for seventeen years. By July he had turned the party, […]

ABA waterside was once the location of the abbatoir where cows and goats brought from the northern part of the country were offloaded and slaughtered.

By Juliet Umeh, LAGOS A former Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Housing, Mrs Barakat Odunuga-Bakare, has declared her intention to represent Surulere Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly. Odunuga-Bakare is seeking the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to challenge the incumbent lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, who is currently representing […]

 “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”, Mahatma Gandhi If the first task of Nigeria’s post-colonial elite was to secure independence, the unfinished task of our time is to complete nation-building. That task has remained elusive largely because the ruling class has failed to evolve into a […]

A cursory look at the edifice known as Zik’s Mausoleum, the final resting place of the first President of Nigeria and the Owelle of Onitsha, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, one would not need to be told that it is not given the deserved attention, going by its present state of bushy and unkept nature.