In what many may consider as the most provoking development leading to next weekend’s governorship election in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP last Thursday walked away from a peace accord among the parties and candidates. The accord was brokered by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee, NPC. Peace accords have since 2015 […]

The 2015 General Election, despite what many saw as some deficiencies, is, however, generally regarded as the best election of the Fourth Republic since the 1999 elections that gave birth to the present dispensation

For a man who once vowed not to abide in Nigeria should Asiwaju Bola Tinubu emerge as president of Nigeria it could have been tempting to discard the pledge by Chief Bode George not to serve in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Disciplinary Committee that was constituted by the national leadership earlier this week. Just […]

Last Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu hosted the first National Council of State meeting of his administration. The body comprising of former and current heads of the various organs of government, to wit, executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government is meant to provide the president with advice to guide him in the administration […]

As Nigerians ponder over the lessons of the recent protest against bad governance and hunger in the land, it is becoming clear that those who ordinarily should reset the course of governance in the country have not drawn any lesson from the uprising against the status quo. That much was espoused in President Bola Tinubu’s […]

The 10-day protest against bad governance which commenced on Thursday, August 1, 2024, is proving to be about the most effective demonstration by the populace against political actors in recent history. The only rage against the government that compares with it may be the demonstrations against military rule, notably the Anti-SAP riots and then the […]

Nigeria has all of a sudden been taken over by a debate about protest. The frenzy immediately brings to mind the stinging rebuke on the nation by the president of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanne who said that Nigerians love to debate at the expense of the collective good. “You love to debate… But if you look […]

It is remarkable that two of the most prominent political actors who topped the news this week on account of their blistering attacks on the performance indices of the Bola Tinubu administration were about the most energetic enablers of Asiwaju’s presidential aspiration. Senator Ali Ndume was until this week, the Senate Chief Whip, and Comrade […]

To dub the Supreme Court judgment granting full autonomy to the Local Governments as a reset of Nigeria’s democratic order may not be far- fetched. Nigeria’s Fourth Republic era was set on course with the Local Government election of December 5, 1998, which was used to set the benchmark for the parties to be registered […]

Vice President Kamala Harris rushed to CNN early yesterday morning (Nigerian Time) to reassure American voters after President Joe Biden came out from a horrific debate with Donald Trump that saw many gasping over the mental capacities of the incumbent president. The once very articulate Biden was sometimes incoherent forcing his challenger, to mock at one time, […]

President Tinubu’s decision to revert to the 1960 National Anthem in the opinion of some was fuelled by the fact that Obasanjo instigated the replacement of ‘Nigeria We Hail Thee’ with ‘Arise o compatriots’ as military head of state

Many will chuckle at how General Ibrahim Babangida and his enablers celebrated the June 12 Democracy Day holiday last Wednesday. For all those who sought to bury what many regard as the most animated demonstration of democratic expression in modern Nigeria, last Wednesday must have been a nightmare. It is a stain that will forever […]

The question as to whether President Goodluck Jonathan was prompted to rein in the non-descript group identifying itself as the League of Delta Patriots is certainly untenable given the integrity and respect that the former Nigeria leader has continued to garner especially since he left office nine years ago. Also, given that Jonathan has turned […]

Following that sack and his installation as emir by the APC machine in 2014, he was supposed to have become more guarded in his public utterances

Miss Leah Sharibu turned 21 three days ago in the custody of Boko Haram insurgents six years after the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in one of its most infamous acts abandoned her in the hands of the savage insurgents. She was one of 110 students of the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, […]