HOPES were buoyed recently when the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, disclosed that the world’s foremost superpower is ready to assist in exposing those behind terrorism in Nigeria. At a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday, May 30, 2021, Leonard was asked whether the USA was willing to name terrorism sponsors in […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s one-day official visit to Imo State on Thursday, September 9, 2021, was more of a visit to the South East zone as a whole.  Outside election campaign times, it was his first visit to that part of the country as an elected president. He was received by a cross-section of the Igbo […]

With the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorism seemingly dying down in the North East, Nigerians have to brace up for the possibility that the North West may have increasingly become the new terror epicentre of the country. On July 19, 2021, an Alpha military jet was shot down by the militant groups which government calls “bandits” on […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been the chief driver of electoral reforms in Nigeria since former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Prof. Attahiru Jega as the Commission’s Chairman on June 8, 2010. Apart from conducting elections in which opposition parties regularly won, Jega pioneered the Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, and Smart Card Reader, SCR, […]

IT has become the norm with the opening of every electoral season to see an avalanche of conflicting court orders from courts of coordinate jurisdictions. Rather than appeal, desperate politicians leave their natural judicial zones for faraway places to obtain ex-parte court injunctions to counter orders already given by courts of the same rank. Virtually […]