Election without political parties: outlook towards 2027, by Usman Sarki
“Political parties created democracy, and modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of the parties.” — E. E. Schattschneider I sometimes wonder if Schattschneider would review his opinion on the centrality of political parties in a democratic dispensation if he had anticipated the situation in Nigeria today. In 2022, I was invited to serve as […]
War without end
The way so much fuss is being made about the North Korea nuclear tests gives the impression that it is the only the country possessing or improving its nuclear capability, whereas of the nine nuclear countries, it has the least number of nuclear weapons
CCS Kaduna wins 1st Rashidi Yekini U-13 tourney
Christ Comprehensive School, Kaduna on Thursday defeated Tornadoes FC of Abeokuta by 1-0 to win the maiden edition of Rashidi Yekini U-13 Boys Football Championship.
Treasury looting as incurable madness
LEBEN und tot lassen”. This is a German expression for what has today become fashionable in Nigeria – Live and let die.
The making and unmaking of a ‘small’ president (2)
OLUSEGUN Adeniyi’s third book: Against The Run Of Play (he has now written about the General Sani Abacha, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan regimes) was bound to ruffle feathers any which way because of the tempestuous trappings of the Jonathan era which produced the first democratic transfer of power from one regime to another in our history.
Jonathan’s contentious claims, alternative facts
Jonathan simply refuses to see or understand the complexity of the world beyond crass ethno-religious invectives
