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Election rigging: Universities should reply Obi, by Tonnie Iredia

Election rigging: Universities should reply Obi, by Tonnie Iredia

A scathing recent remark by the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress NDC, Mr. Peter Obi that Nigerian professors now help illiterates to rig elections in the country must have disconcerted many citizens.  It is certainly a remark which keeps Nigeria quite low in the comity of nations more so as it shows the irony […]
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PDP: Why Supreme Court must decide quickly

PDP: Why Supreme Court must decide quickly

After making its pronouncement, the PDP can go and stew its own juices if it so chooses, but let it never be said that the Supreme Court, by delaying justice, denied the party a fair chance to exercise its legitimate right to vie for power in 2019

State of the nigerian economy at half-way mark

State of the nigerian economy at half-way mark

ON May 29, 2017, the Buhari administration will be two years old; that means it would have reached the half-way mark of its four-year tenure. Nigerians should, right now, disregard those crack-pots talking about second term. The focus should be on mid-term assessment. Plainly asked it comes down to: What has been achieved in the two years under Buhari? Put another way: “Are we better off now than in 2015?