Osun guber as a primer to 2027 elections
The Osun State governorship election has offered Nigeria a preview of what the 2027 general elections could become—and what they must never become. It was preceded by an ugly cocktail of defections, political brinkmanship, institutional controversy and violence. Governor Ademola Adeleke’s hurried exit from the PDP, after failing to secure a route into the APC […]
Nigeria’s damning poverty report
THE Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, is possibly the most credible agency of the Federal Government, alongside the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI. In recent years, its public rating has been on the rise due to its professional, non-political handling of the job of telling the Nigerian situation as it is in cold metrics. […]
Curbing health sector brain drain
BRAIN drain is beyond the normal migration of people to greener pastures or adventure. It involves the mass movement of a skilled workforce from one place to another. In the 1960s and 1970s, Nigeria was a great destination for skilled foreign workers such as doctors, university lecturers, high school teachers and others from such places […]
Marking World Children’s Day 2022
SUNDAY, November 20, 2022, passed, rather quietly, in Nigeria, though the world out there celebrated the 2022 edition of World Children’s Day. Yes, we do celebrate our own Nigerian Children’s Day on May 27 every year, yet we still need to respond to the universal day because we are part of it. The World Children’s […]
INEC and underage voters
UNDERAGE voters have been part of our electoral system for quite some time. Even the 2015 general elections, which were perceived as “free, fair, and credible,” featured thousands, if not millions, of ineligible kids who freely registered and cast their votes. Child voters are minors who are not up to the voting age of 18 […]
Beyond INEC Chairman’s reassurances
ON Wednesday last week, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, once again reassured Nigerians that the technological template aimed at reducing human interference in our elections in February and March 2023, will be implemented as planned. In particular, he affirmed that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, the electronic […]
