Action Peoples Party, Sim Fubara’s proxy party, the special purpose vehicle through which he is establishing his own hegemony, is certainly full of action, having made a near clean-sweep of the available seats in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. Twenty two of these seats are now under the control of the APP, an […]

ABOUT an hour before I started writing this, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu read his nationally transmitted address on the 64th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria. Not unexpectedly, he made of this speech a pep talk to advise Nigerians not to lose hope in the face of the mounting economic, social and political challenges that have followed the […]

CONTRARY to the end-time predictions of fake cabalists and aspiring soothsayers masquerading as political pundits, the governorship election in Edo State was essentially violence-free. But for a pocket of incidents that resulted in the disruption of the electoral process, reports of the election were mostly favourable. Voter-turnout was very low with just over 500,000 ballots cast […]

THE hard times Nigerians are passing through are not about to end; it’s getting clearer by the day. The more things change, the more they remain the same. That may sound, these days, like a cliche where Nigerians are concerned. But it says so much about the situation we’ve found ourselves in. For several years and, […]

Prof. Mamman may genuinely want to put an end to the bastardisation of the  education system but his seems more like a political solution to largely social problem.