2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
President Buhari’s latest divisive outing
My prayer is that in 2019, we will be wiser and meticulously search for the leader who will bind Nigeria’s wounds inflicted on her in the past 25 months of the Buhari divisive presidency, and save the nation from disintegration
Buhari, Nnamdi Kanu: Who is the separatist?
The point is that championing ethnic calls in the name of fighting for self-determination has, like kidnapping for ransom and armed robbery, become a very lucrative shortcut to wealth
Attack on Chief Olu Falae again by herdsmen: Urgent action
National security requires that ethnic and tribal sentiments be put aside in pursuit of a common goal; the prevention of total breakdown of law and order. If left to fester, violence does not discriminate between tribes or ethnicities, innocent or guilty, old or young
Moral relativism is terrorising Nigeria
Corruption, our unwillingness to speak out against it with one voice, is killing Nigerians
Planning and budgeting in fantasically corrupt countries
Going forward, we may need the Supreme Court to undertake judicial review of the entire budgetary process in order to demarcate clear lines of responsibility between the executive and parliament to ensure administrative order
