The Reverend Jesse Jackson established his eternal iconography when he leveraged his Rainbow-PUSH coalition to the Democratic National Convention in 1984, coming third behind Walter Mondale and Gary Hart in the race for the party’s presidential ticket. He also stood in 1989. He was regarded as the very heartbeat of American conscience. With his passing […]

With barely a year into the midterm stretch of this administration, the drums of 2027 are already beating loudly across Nigeria’s political landscape. Billboards are resurfacing. Consultations are under way. Strategic defections are being plotted. Subtle campaign machinery is grinding into motion. It is as though governance has been politely excused from the room to […]

The disclosure by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Mohammed Ali Pate, before the House of Representatives Committee on Healthcare Services, during the 2026 budget defence that only ?36 million out of an approved ?218 billion capital budget for the ministry in 2025 was actually released for capital expenditure is not just troubling […]

The 2026 budget defence exercise by the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, before the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence provided the platform for the perceived funding controversies of the sector to be brought to the public space. Permanent Secretary, Special Services, Office of the National Security Adviser, Mohammed Sanusi, grumbled that […]

Hopes that the Electoral Act Amendment would be given an undiluted and cast-iron provision for real-time electronic transfer of results from the polling station to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were dashed last week Tuesday, at the rescheduled sitting of the House of Representatives. The House, which had earlier passed the […]