Lessons From Osun 2026 and the road to 2027: Parties, personalities and the coming contest (2), by Usman Sarki
The first part of this article concluded with the observation that while all politics may indeed be local, the economic hardship confronting Nigerians today is anything but local. But before examining how these conditions may shape the 2027 elections, the Osun experience invites us to confront an even more fundamental question: what exactly do our political parties […]
Allison Akene Ayida speaks (2)
AS a nation, Nigeria has neither been blessed with charismatic leadership universally acclaimed or generally acceptable to all. Nor has Nigerians been fortunate enough to have such a great leadership imposed
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
T/BILLS: Who will stop this looting spree?
It is also worrisome that the public wrongly assumes that the hundreds of billions of Naira borrowed annually, with such high costs, are actually applied to improve social infrastructure
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?
Advice to Jonathan and Tinubu: Don’t write now
GEJ lost more millions of votes on account of his uncontrollable wife than any number of votes INEC could have given to Buhari
