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 […]