House of chiefs should be the next (6), by Eric Teniola
This week, we continue the series on why the House of Chiefs should be considered by the National Assembly. He was labour officer, Federal Ministry of Labour, Lagos, 1962–1963; lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1963–1965; assistant professor of political science, California, 1969–1971; associate professor of African Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1972–1974; dean […]
Senator Akpabio is angry, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“The chameleon changes colour to match the earth. The earth does not change colour to match the chameleon”.- African proverb. Reports say Senate President Godswill Akpabio recently hit back at critics attempting to push the legislature away from its apparent direction regarding the 2027 elections. He is miffed by those who are either deliberately ignoring key […]
why Tinubu is succeeding in turning around the economy
This article could have been titled WHY BUHARI FAILED WOEFULLY or WHY TINUBU INHERITED AN ECONOMY ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE and any of those titles would have been apt. One of our former Sunday Editors forwarded a statement credited to an Emir who was once very close to Buhari when they were both in service. […]
Murtala Muhammed: Manoeuvring through unpopular consciousness, by Owei Lakemfa
The second Nigerian coup on July 29, 1966 was quite brutal. That is the brutal truth. To avoid what may be brutal, I do not set out to write the truth, but what is historical. There are two main strands protruding from that coup like a buried corpse with two visible hands. The first is that it […]
The SEDC will need protection from political extortion, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
When he presented his budget proposals for 2024 to Nigeria’s National Assembly, the first full year of appropriations under his presidency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu identified as his priorities human asset development, poverty reduction and fighting insecurity. Last week, his official spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, appeared to forget or renounce that policy direction, when he acknowledged […]
Nigeria’s Electoral Act: Dodgy senators, gullible citizens, by Tonnie Iredia
Bearing in mind that a constitution would be unwieldy if it is made to contain every type of provision, other laws, regulations and guidelines are allowed to provide further provisions that would illuminate the not too copious constitutional statements on a particular subject area. The Electoral Act is expected to handle such situations in matters of […]
