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 […]
Away with Hate Speech Bill (1)
EVEN after it was thrown out in 2018 during the Eighth Senate, Senator Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger State), the new Deputy Chief Whip of the Red Chamber, has brought back his National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speech Bill. It has already undergone the first reading.
Contending with fire disasters
WITHIN the past one month Nigeria has been reeling from a whirlwind of fire outbreaks with attendant losses of human lives and property.
Making the most of our shut borders
Two months after wielding the big stick of precipitate border closure, the Federal Government on Monday November 4, 2019 laid out conditions to be met by fellow ECOWAS countries for reopening of our borders.
Kogi campus killings
OVER the course of penultimate weekend, news came of the massacre of no fewer than 13 students of the Kogi State University, KSU, Ayingba, Kogi State, by alleged cultists.
Securing the Bayelsa, Kogi polls
AS the November 16, 2019 D-day for the conduct of the off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states becomes a reality in a couple of days, the major source of concern remains the security situation and how the law enforcement agencies will cope.
