Many Nigerians have for long been calling for a new constitution for their country because the subsisting 1999 constitution never met and still doesn’t meet the basic requirements of a people’s constitution. However, many other citizens are not persuaded that writing another constitution is a viable way out. The perspective of this latter school of thought […]

After the opprobrium of the poorly organized 2007 presidential election, many Nigerians were further dampened by the story that Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the celebrated former Commonwealth Secretary-General had turned down government’s offer to lead a credible electoral commission which the Yar’Adua-Jonathan administration sought to establish. Whereas there was no official statement indicating that the offer was […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State (2015-2023) left no one in doubt that he had enormous capacity for project development. No other governor in the history of Nigeria ever evolved his type of schedule for the daily commissioning of projects for several months without stop. His penchant for saying things as they are, no matter […]

Only last Sunday, this column engaged its readers in the search for an elephant in the room ofpolice reforms in Nigeria. The engagement turned out to be quite intriguing with many readers querying the imagination of anelephant in just a room, while urging me to disclosethe exact location of the elephant. In truth, iwas only […]

Apart from legislators who have between 100 and 200 million naira each just to purchase official car, no one is really financially comfortable with the salary structure of the public service.

Today, it is the APC that is perpetuating the anomaly, but it was not started by that party. In its days as the nation’s ruling political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP consistently smuggled politicians into the management of the electoral commission.

It is obvious that there are too many Nigerian leaders with questionable credentials.

One narrative of the last few years that has refused to change is the argument that Nigeria is not just a poor country but the poverty capital of the world. Last week, I learnt a lot about the subject at an exciting school’s debate where speakers argued for and against the topic, “Nigeria’s poverty is […]

As of today, it is an open secret that many appointees do not meet the requirements for appointment into positions that they hold.

If it is hard to stop the private sector from profiteering, it is certainly irrational for government itself to frequently act as an inflation catalyst.

At the end of the day, those who thought they could rely on the Chicago State University CSU – the issuing authority of the certificate have found that the CSU itself is a comedian, speaking from both sides of its mouth and leaving everyone more confused than we were before the decision to resort to her.

Last week Thursday, David Umahi, Nigeria’s Minister of Works locked out several workers of his ministry for reportedly resuming late to work. For over 5 hours there was confusion in and around the ministry as the workers in turn locked all entrances into the ministry thereby stopping the minister from getting out of his office. […]

Ondo State is one of the states where the impeachment of deputy governors is not new. Already, two deputy governors, Olanusi Ali and Agboola Ajayi have had a taste of the bitter political hobby. Only last week, Ondo legislators served an impeachment notice on Lucky Aiyedatiwa the current deputy governor over allegations of gross misconduct.

Today, the country has only two federal roads, the Lagos-Ibadan and Abuja-Kaduna Express Ways that have been under construction without end. For longer than makes sense, every government is always working on the two roads.

Nigeria has never had free and fair elections because of numerous challenges; among them is what can simply be called insider abuses by electoral officials. Except the conduct of such officials are placed under proper scrutiny during election petitions, we can never know the real winners of elections in Nigeria.