With respect to the presidential electoral campaigns, ethnic associations vociferously expressed support for their preferred candidates.  However, the support of the associations featured contradictory positions taken by either factions within some ethnic associations or by competing associations in the name of the same ethnic group. Thus, for example, in the South-west (predominantly Yoruba), Afenifere (“authentic”) supported Atiku while the branches of the association in Lagos and Ekiti states supported Buhari. Similarly, in the South-east (predominantly Igbo), the national executive of Ohaneze Ndigbo supported Atiku while the national secretary of the association and some prominent members supported Buhar

FOLLOWING repeated outcries by residents of Ajegunle over unending siege by trucks and other articulated vehicles, Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, July last year visited to see things for himself and was confronted by a traumatic traffic situation that had effectively crippled all productive activities in the area.

IT is always difficult to talk of rule of law in Nigeria. While senior public officers continue to give the impression that the country is operated under the rule of law their actions and utterances suggest otherwise. It is so worrisome that provisions of the Constitution are conveniently sacrificed for political expediency or self-aggrandisement of highly placed public officers. In the process, the country is reduced to a banana republic where the rule of law is substituted for the rule of the rulers

The Managing Director of New Telegraph, Newspaper, Funke Egbemode was, Saturday, re-elected as President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE for another two- year term.

Since the emergence of a report indicating the poor living conditions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who, last year, came to settle in Bauchi, after being dislodged by Boko Haram from their home state of Borno, several claims and counterclaims have been made regarding the welfare of IDPs in the State.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 will go down in history as a special day for Lagos State and indeed Nigeria. Reason: It was a day President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated five landmark legacy projects of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration in critical sectors including health, transportation, road and social infrastructure.

Onnoghen was suspended barely eight hours after he announced his decision to inaugurate judges that will take charge of the 2019 election petition tribunals

The project was embarked upon as a strategic industry, a job creator and a foreign exchange saver and earner

These are not alarming tales but the true picture of the current security situation across Nigeria’s 36 states

A spate of killings is creeping into the southeast. Cultist, bandits and herdsmen are gaining ground in the southeast once again. Very recently, gunmen initially suspected to be herdsmen killed a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Clement Ugwu who was said to have been kidnapped from his Parish, St Mark Catholic Church, Obinofia Ndiuno in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State.

The federal government of Nigeria this week announced the suspension of mining activities in Zamfara state to check the activities of bandits and criminals who have made the state a by word for impudent criminality.

SINCE February 16, 2019, Nigerians, almost on a weekly basis, have been saddled with one election or the other across the country with the attendant socio-economic costs.

The idea of a two-party system had for long remained an issue for Nigeria since the advent of independence in 1960. Where it was not immediately realized, political parties sought to find alliances in the second elections after the inauguration of the first two republics, to wit, the 1964 and 1983.

Respected historian, writer  and academic, Prof. Banji Akintoye, was one of the close allies of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. He was a facilitator in the production of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria’s UPN’s manifesto that focused on free education, integrated rural development among others.

Democracy as a system of government thrives on plurality of opinions. As a government of the people and by the people,  freedom of expression and liberty of association is one of the striking features that differentiate democracy from other governance systems.