From the take-off of the current federal government in Nigeria till today, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the nation’s current minister of Interior has been seen by many as one of President Bola Tinubu’s best appointees. Young, agile and proactive, Tunji-Ojo has left no one in doubt that he would sustain high performances all through his tenure. Indeed, at […]

Last week, I took off a few minutes from my present preoccupation of establishing a tertiary institution to review latest events across Nigeria in line with the dictates of this column. News reports tended to point at Benue as a busy state until it became clear that all events appearing under the state were restricted to […]

With the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999 after several years of military rule, many Nigerians had looked forward to a new way of life different from impunity, rigidity and on the spot decisions that can hardly stand the test of time. More than 25 years after, governance has only slightly moved away from […]

Retired public servants as distinct from political office holders in Nigeria live in penury. The value of their pensions is not only too little for survival, disbursements are never regular leading to huge arrears of the otherwise meagre entitlements of retirees. At the beginning of a new administration at federal and subnational levels in Nigeria in […]

The political system of any society refers generally to how the society concerned functions. History records many types of political systems…