A new government  in Ni geria came on board, on May 29, 2023, that is  some 9 months ago. Although the new administration headed by former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu is sponsored by the All Progressives Congress, APC, which had earlier sponsored his predecessor, optimists believe that this time around, change is around the corner. […]

Public reactions to the report of the presidential committee on restructuring and rationalization of federal government parastatals, commissions and agencies led by Steve Oronsaye, former Head of Service of the Federation have been immensely positive. Those who have a few reservations, have no substantive objections to the report; instead, they are merely raising issues of […]

THE nearest major offseason election in Nigeria is the governorship contest in Edo state, holding a few months away. Understandably, in nowhere else is the political temperature in the country as hot as Edo State where party primaries to select flag bearers for the forthcoming governorship election have just been concluded. How the primaries were […]

In 1993, Nigeria conducted a presidential election that the world hailed as the best in the nation’s history. If 31years later, the famous June 12, 1993 election remains the nation’s best, it means Nigeria is yet to make any electoral or political progress in 3 full decades.  Of course, there have been several processes and […]

Any analyst can with a high degree of accuracy confirm that many Nigerians are currently experiencing hard times far more than any difficult scenario of the nation’s history. Insecurity inherited by the Bola Tinubu led-government has been exacerbated by adebilitating economy. The severity of the suffering is virtually rubbishing whatever gains are accruable from ongoing reforms […]

From the days of western philosophers – Jean Rousseau, John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, the concept of government has been the subject of unending commentary. Today, people see ‘government’ more as a product of the social contract theory which depicts the relationship between government and the people into two main parts of an unwritten contract. These […]

The National Judicial Council (NJC) is the body set-up by law to among other things discipline erring Nigerian judges. This was probably to prevent different agencies from harassing judges thereby boosting judicial autonomy. One would therefore have expected that the body would be up and doing in ensuring sanity in the Nigerian judiciary thereby giving no […]

In many developing societies where the government of the day is unable to provide basic facilities to improve living standards the way out is usually to resort to the tokenism of distributing palliatives to citizens.  Nigeria adopted the option in 2015 – an option which from inception has been unable to wear a transparent and […]

Nigeria’s national political attention would expectedly focus more on Edo and Ondo states this year because it is their turn to hold governorship elections in the country in September and November respectively. Electoral activities would understandably pick-up earlier in Edo as it would be the first contestation centre. Indeed, Ondo is slightly drawn back because […]

It is no longer news that Arakunrin, Odunayo, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, who was governor of Ondo state for the larger part of the last 7 years has passed on. May the soul of that sworn courageous activist rest in peace.  His former deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa is now governor bringing to an end political skirmishes that have […]