Independence address, endless promises no specifics
By Dele Sobowale Bayo Onanuga, the Senior Special Adviser to the President, accused critics of writing their responses without reading Tinubu’s address. That is certainly not true about me. In fact, the address was read to me by Uncle Sam, the Publisher of Vanguard, in his house – while asking for my comments on a […]
The Need for National Political Reform Conference (5), by Afe Babalola
Problem of Revenue Allocation Bequeathed by the Military If the fact must be told, ours is a glorified unitarism masquerading as federalism. A situation where the component units, the states, go cap-in-and to the central government(called Federal Government) for assistance can not, by any stretch of imagination, qualify as a federation. Under military dispensation, the situation […]
The National Assembly, the Nation-State and the “National Question” (2), by Usman Sarki
“They have not to recapitulate the past, but to build up the future”– Karl Marx In the discussion of the “National Question”, we Nigerians must not be reduced to recapitulating the past but actually to be seized with building up the future of our country. We must be made aware that the “National Question” remains a recurring […]
A Broadband Roundtable gives hope for fresh investment and opportunities, by Okoh Aihe
On a day that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, called a roundtable on broadband with the various industry stakeholders, I couldn’t be there but was connected virtually through the same technology that was enjoying appreciable focus and some kind of understandable admiration because of its near infinite possibilities. I had to demonstrate that the future of […]
How the Igbo should respond to the demolitions in Lagos, by Rotimi Fasan
In this concluding part of last week’s discussion, I continue from where I stopped by noting that the moment traders from other markets in Lagos were relocated to the Trade Fair Complex, from then was the vision that animated the establishment of the Complex corrupted. The influx of traders from different markets in Lagos signaled its […]
INEC Chairman, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”-– Ken Blanchard Last week, the Council of State, a constitutional body whose advice the Nigerian President is not compelled to accept, endorsed President Bola Tinubu’s nomination of Professor J.O. Amupitan from Kogi State as the next Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The Senate […]
