THE rising profile of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan certainly went up another notch, at least on a high moral ground, when he boldly dropped hints on how the Muhammadu Buhari administration can solve the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, protracted strike. At the 70th birthday anniversary of one of the voices of conscience […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s, recent remit of $265 million to about 20 or so foreign airlines operating in the country is a step in the right direction. The Federal Government had defaulted in her  obligation to provide the dollar cover for about $600 million worth of ticket sales in naira for remission to […]

IT is surprising that Nigerians have remained aloof to the sobering confession by retired Brigadier-General Sani Usman Kukasheka that he and former Army Chief, retired Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau, were asked by undisclosed unpatriotic elements to topple former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010. Kukasheka, who made this confession at a public lecture, named a former General […]

Some leaders and statesmen of the 20th Century gained their prominence or notoriety through aggression, conflicts, empire building and the defence of empires. Mikhail Gorbachev gained his through reforms of such extensive scopes that, unlike any other statesman of his class, changed the world for the better. He will be remembered as the man who […]

THE government of President Muhammadu Buhari moves in mysterious ways. This it has demonstrated through its shifting attitudes to the security of our oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta. The Goodluck Jonathan administration had awarded contracts for the pipeline protection from oil thieves to repentant Niger Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. But when Buhari’s […]

Since he reluctantly assented to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, which allows the transmission of election results from the polling units after intense pressure, President Muhammadu Buhari has been assuring us of his willingness to allow the 2023 general elections to be free and fair. However, his habit of taking measures to tamper with the […]

The Muhammadu Buhari presidency has been the most media-unfriendly government since the return of our democracy in 1999. It has done everything possible to constrict the media and democratic space and deprive Nigerians of their right to free speech and media freedom as stipulated in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended). […]

WE are strong advocates for an independent investigative and prosecutorial body to deal exclusively on electoral offenders. We have also pushed for the establishment of a tribunal in the likeness of the Election Petition Tribunal, to try electoral offenders, including violators of the law in pursuit of their cases at the Election Petition Tribunals. We […]

The arrest and detention of Nigerian music superstar, Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe, popularly known as “Kizz Daniel” in Tanzania, should be a lesson to all our celebrities, including musicians, actors and other artistes that if the law in Nigerian can be bent in deference to their stardom, the same does not apply in other more serious […]

THOUGH the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, swiftly issued a statement last Sunday affirming that “electronic transmission of results has come to stay”, the confusion as to the continued role of “manual collation” of results in our electoral management under the recently amended Electoral Act remains. Festus Okoye, INEC’s Chairman of the Information and Voter […]