By Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello The furore on social media, following the engagements of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Chatham House was uncalled for. The outing was full of lessons and revelations, taking Nigerians closer to the Presidential aspirant and his understanding of leadership and plans for Nigerians, when […]

By Gideon Obhakhan I may be misquoted if I say President Muhammadu Buhari’s image makers have not done enough in the last seven and half years that PMB has steered the Nigerian ship. I’d cautiously choose the option of saying that Buhari has done a lot more than has been celebrated in his time so […]

By Ganiu Bamgbose(PhD) The popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Sulaimon Farouq Onikijipa, is the Mufti (a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on religious matters) of Ilorin Emirate. Writings abound on the life and living of the notable scholar who was recently honoured by the president of Nigeria, Major General Muhammad Buhari (Rtd), […]

By Nicholas Ebehikhalu This is the concluding part of this piece which, yesterday, reviewed the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy provision in Chapter 2 of the 1999 constitution, alongside provisions of section 6 (6)c of the same constitution which makes it clear that no court has jurisdiction to pronounce any decision as […]

By Stanley Ekpa ALMOST every constitutional democracy vests vast and enormous powers in the office of the head of government. In either a presidential or parliamentary system of government, such a person exercises the “largest amount of authority ever wielded by any man in a democracy”, according to Patrick Henry. If the constitution of the […]