RAMADAN is here again. It is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the most propagated month in the Islamic sphere, when Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days. Last Wednesday, the moon was sighted as declared by the President-General, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, and the Sultan of Sokoto, signaling the commencement […]

NO matter who is sworn-in as the next President of Nigeria on May 29, 2023, he must commit from Day One, to overhaul our electoral process to make it more accountable, credible and acceptable. He must emulate the noble gesture of the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua, who admitted that the election that brought him […]

UNLIKE any other time in our post-Civil War history, ethnic profiling has enjoyed a free rein in the past eight years of Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure as president of Nigeria. It has shown up both within and outside the electoral season. In June 2017, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, issued what it called a notice […]

THE Muhammadu Buhari administration and the National Assembly led by Senate President Maina Lawan deserve a pat on the back for successfully moving the power to build and operate power grids and railway systems from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List. The overloading of the Exclusive List with Federal powers by the Military for […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the 9th National Assembly presided over by Senator Ahmed Maina Lawan, have given Nigerians a parting gift: devolution of some powers, which were erstwhile exclusively wielded by the Federal Government, to the states. Top among them are: empowerment of the states to build electric power stations and generate, distribute and transmit […]

TRADERS all over Nigeria live in daily dread of the possibility that their wares and shops could be destroyed by fire. Just a few weeks ago, the popular Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State went up in flames in what was suspected as an arson attack by terrorists. Governor Babagana Zulum immediately promised a N1 […]

SAVE for the bye-elections and the pending proceedings at the Election Petition Tribunal, the much-vaunted 2023 general elections have come and gone. Compared to the romantic mind pictures that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had painted prior to it, they were nothing to write home about. When he was appointed in October 2015, Professor […]

EVEN back in colonial times and down the ages, school children and students were never quite insulated from the political and campaign atmospheres because they are part of the society. Children always knew and sang the praises of political leaders who dominated their environments. It is the expression of their constitutional rights of association. Children […]

Many Nigerians have continued to raise questions over the 2023 presidential election, with some still bitterly complaining about the way and manner the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, violated the Electoral law and its own guidelines in announcing the winner. The February 25, 2023 election would have been a great improvement on the 2015 elections […]

WE once again give the leaders of the main opposition parties – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP; and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian People’s Party, NNPP – a pat on the back for controlling their followers to maintain the peace after the announcement of […]