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 […]

THE tragedy of the fire that gutted the Akere Market, Tolu, in Ajegunle, Lagos on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, goes beyond mere loss of lives and the economic livelihood of the traders in the market. An official statement by the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, LSFRS, Margret Adeseye, said her outfit […]