MANY well-meaning Nigerians heaved sighs of relief when the Federal Government announced in April 2023 its decision to postpone the proposed national population census. The exercise, which was conceived five years earlier, was billed for March 29, 2023. It was initially shifted to April 2 and finally to May 3, 2023 before the outright indefinite […]

THE debate over whether a new president should be inaugurated on May 29, 2023 while the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, is yet to rule on the February 25, 2023 presidential election is still raging. Meanwhile, the state pushes aggressively ahead with inauguration preparations. The presidential running mate of the Labour Party, LP, Senator Yusuf […]

THE altercation between musician Seun Kuti and a policeman in uniform on the Third Mainland Bridge was one of the main dramas of the past weekend which was the talk of the town and the social media. Enraged Seun, a son of the Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, was caught on camera hectoring the unarmed […]

THE outgoing Muhammadu Buhari regime has surprisingly maintained aloofness to the allegation that the People’s Republic of China is indirectly involved in the sponsorship of terrorists, especially in the terror-torn North. On April 15, 2023, The Times, a UK-based daily, published an exclusive story alleging that Chinese nationals were involved in bribing some Jihadi terrorist […]

THE calls for the live telecast of proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, are in line with the need to bring back some of the lost faith and confidence of Nigerians in our institutions of public governance. Apart from the two main opposition parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, […]