Obi can win if he steps up!!! By Donu Kogbara
Dr Yunusa Tanko was one of Peter Obi’s staunchest allies for years. News that he has resigned from the Obidient Movement he once coordinated to head the presidential campaign council of Prince Adewole Adebayo’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) came as a shock to me and many other onlookers. As former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, […]
Democracy and the people’s role(2)
TYPES OF DEMOCRACY Today, we have different types of democracy which include the following:- 1. Anticipatory democracy, which relies on some degree of disciplined and usually market-informed anticipation of the future, to guide major decisions 2. Athenian democracy (sometimes called classical democracy), as originally developed in the Classical Greek city-state of Athens 3. Defensive democracy, a […]
President Bola Tinubu’s scorecard, one year on, by Rotimi Fasan
Today makes it exactly a year since Bola Ahmed Tinubu stepped into office as Nigeria’s fifth president in the post-military years. Within minutes of his inauguration, the president made the very consequential decision that has for the most part directed the course of his administration and defined his presidency as a costly political entreprise in the national […]
For a broadcast czar, it’s 365 days into eternity, by Okoh Aihe
In the evening of May 29, 2023, I found myself paying tributes to Dr Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi. “They didn’t know you and they never will,” I wrote. The broadcast czar and unrepentant exponent had just undergone a most unexpected apotheosis and emotion was very thick in the air. He had completed his final episode of life which […]
One year on: Words above action, by Dakuku Peterside
AMIDST the initial fanfare, optimism, and high expectations, a new era began on May 29, 2023, as a new president, vice president, and governors took their oaths of office. However, as we approach the one-year mark, it is clear that for many Nigerians, the end of the Buhari era has not brought the relief they had […]
The impact of the exit of NEIC (2), by Eric Teniola
IN 1965, when Professor Saburi Biobaku (1918–2001), the deputy Vice-Chancellor of UNIFE advised all lecturers to support the party of the day, which was NNDP, a splinter group of the Action Group led by Chief Samuel Akintola, Professor Aluko sided with Awolowo’s side of the Action Group who were receptive of the recommendations offered by the […]
