Let ideas dominate the campaigns
The August 19, 2026 date fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the commencement of campaigns for the 2027 Presidential and National Assembly Elections has passed. Once again, Nigeria has entered another election season, bringing with it the familiar sights and sounds of rallies, endorsements, defections, slogans, promises and political fireworks. But Nigerians […]
Tired Of Promises
PROMISES raise our hope, increase our confidence, and change our attitude to situations. Our reactions to promises depend on who made them and the circumstances that produced them.
Obasanjo Preaches Social Justice
SOMETHING happens to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo each time he travels abroad, he speaks in ways that cut an image of the Obasanjo that Nigerians never know, though he was a military Head of State for three years and a civilian President for eight years.
JAMB – Experimenting with the future
INTENTIONS, no matter how noble they may seem, are no longer enough as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, would have discovered in its most recent conduct of examinations into universities.
Boko Haram, Its Conditions
OUR security agencies are becoming an embarrassment. President Goodluck Jonathan compounds the situation by excusing the lapses. According to him, the bombs that have been going off in Nigeria were the country’s portion of the rise in global terrorism.
New Reps, New Offices, New Microphones
THOSE who have canvassed part-time legislatures have a point as the long recesses, high costs of maintaining legislators and their low contributions to the society are showing.
States, Freedom Of Information Act
ARE celebrations about the passage of the Freedom of Information Act too early? They seem so. There are checkpoints along the routes to the expected explorations of the new territories the slightly lifted veil on information could provide.
CBN’s Threat To Its Eight Banks
TIME and expertise have run out on whatever decisions the Central Bank of Nigeria wants to take on the eight banks it dislodged their boards from 14 August 2009. Tired of nearly two years of equivocation, CBN is threatening to revoke their licences if they do not meet a 20 December 2011 re-capitalisation deadline.
June 12 – claims continue
FEW will allow others to write history against them and maintain silence, especially where they have a chance to represent issues in ways that will portray their fondness and sacrifices for humanity.
Kerosene – The Forests Are Going
THE high cost of kerosene has been with us for a while and so have increasing dangers of this cost. Among them are the sale of adulterated kerosene by greedy merchants who exploit the gap in supply, and the devastation of the environment.
Illusions Of Care For Nigerian Child
THE June 1 letter from the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, asking President Goodluck Jonathan to obey the ECOWAS Court of Justice ruling that makes education of the Nigerian child a right, it is the latest effort in the new direction the quest for social justice is taking.
