Osun guber as a primer to 2027 elections
The Osun State governorship election has offered Nigeria a preview of what the 2027 general elections could become—and what they must never become. It was preceded by an ugly cocktail of defections, political brinkmanship, institutional controversy and violence. Governor Ademola Adeleke’s hurried exit from the PDP, after failing to secure a route into the APC […]
No Alarm On Road Carnage
A MONTH after 153 people died in the Dana air crash, the lamentations have not abetted. Motions on improving air travel safety continue. Some have lost their jobs and billions of Naira will be expended in improving airports, which national legislators rate so important that if they suffer blackouts, sessions are held on the implications as if the country was coming to an abrupt end.
A Scandal Scandalised
NIGERIANS are still waiting for the security agencies to prosecute Farouk Lawan, the embattled chairman of the House of Representatives Committee that probed government expenditures on petroleum subsidy. It seems it would be a long wait.
Joyce Banda’s bad example for Africa
President Joyce Banda, 62, emerged as Africa’s second female president on April 7th 2012 after her predecessor, Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika, died of heart attack. She promised to shake things up and improve relations with aid donor countries.
Our Children – Their Present
THE 2012 Children’s Day, the 58th Children’s Day since the United Nations Assembly declared it in 1954, was unique. It fell on a Sunday, so it passed without embarrassments governments would have endured about their neglect of children.
Auditing Nigerian airlines
THE Dana Air crash threw up ample evidences of the internal problems of domestic airlines. Air Nigeria whose pilots and engineers were on strike for weeks, alleging poor pay and inadequate attention to industry imperatives was added to the suspension list. There may be more.
