Tactical voting: How opposition can defeat Tinubu without a sole candidate, by Olu Fasan
This is authorial licence. I am writing about a subject on which I have no particular interest, by which I mean that I’m not rooting for any candidate in next year’s presidential election. However, I am fascinated by how the opposition parties have been “strategising” to unseat President Bola Tinubu, yet doing so in fits […]
Mint Pensioners: Too old to work, too young to die-Owei Lakemfa
So after 17 years traversing the High Court, Appeal Court and Supreme Court, the Supreme Court, employing technicalities rather than the justice of the case, rendered the epic efforts of the pensioners, a virtual a nullity
Buhari and the South
“You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we have done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.” Jim Yong Kim, World Bank President.
Where is Nnamdi Kanu?
Where are all the famous Human Rights advocacy groups in Nigeria? Those who could at the very drop of a hat rouse a teary plea against the oppression, for as long, it now seems, as those “citizens” are from the right end of the rail track. It does seem that once it comes to the South-East of Nigeria, those normally with “public conscience” have their “consciences” suddenly go to sleep.
Much ado about Zuma’s visit
Has the meaning of democracy changed in the dictionary? What kind of government is being practiced in Nigeria today? How come it doesn’t seem to have a semblance of what the dictionary defined democracy to mean?? I see oppression, intimidation, suppression , anything but government of the people.
Aisha Buhari opens-up governance
When the Freedom of Information Act was enacted in 2011, many citizens mostly activists and journalists assumed that the nation had achieved a near revolution because through the Act the days of secrecy in governance ought to be over.
