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.

In Nigeria, the division of society into two classes only; that is those who have everything and those who have nothing is more visibly felt than anywhere else. This has left many people to pray not just for something to change but for it to come through the efficacy of a military coup. The recent decision of the military hierarchy in Nigeria to formally dismiss such undemocratic undertones in the land is instructive.

The common saying that when a problem is identified, it is half-solved is valid only when it is the identified problem that people conscientiously seek to solve. It becomes a different matter when in the process of solving a clearly identified problem,state actors lose focus and either divert attention to other ancillary matters or begin […]

A visible feature in every developed society is a high degree of accountability in governance in which every public operative is held accountable for any task he is mandated to implement. The corollary is the case in underdeveloped societies where accountability is weak. Nigeria is a good example of where accounting for leadership actions or […]

Nigerian citizens who may not have fully followed the tense political situation in neighbouring Niger may have been misled into thinking that for once, their federal legislators are no longer disposed to playing their rubber-stamp role towards the executive branch of government. But we can hardly know if they are really set to act as […]

The process of appointment of ministers in Nigeria is ordinarily simple. It has two main phases, namely: the nomination of some persons by the president to serve as ministers of government and the confirmation of such nominees by the senate. As at today, the president’s nomination is constitutionally guided to consist of at least 37 […]

Salihu Lukman, until a few days ago, vice-chairman (north-west) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has had to resign his position as a member of the national working Committee (NWC) of the party. In his July 26 resignation letter addressed to Abubakar Kyari, acting national chairman of the APC, Lukman explained that his resignation was […]

Successive governments in Nigeria, both federal and state, have over the years continuously reminded me of my amiable late Uncle Ajayi from whom I originally assimilated the rudiments of communication. Each time I tried to report on any assignment Uncle Ajayi gave me as a young chap, he effortlessly frustrated me by responding with so […]

In 2019 alone, findings revealed among others, the cases of Kingsley Unekwe who manipulated his score from 201 to 269; Adah Eche whose original score was falsely lifted from 153 to 290 and Cletus Kokowa who allegedly paid the sum of N10,00 to a syndicate to raise his score from 162 to 206.