Countdown to 2027: Edo North is for Oshiomhole
By Allison Abanum Adams Oshiomhole’s first term has been defined by a deliberate strategy of translating legislative power into tangible federal presence for Edo North. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, he has leveraged his position to facilitate federal employment for constituents and ensure fair representation in federal institutions. His legislative record includes […]
Lekki Shooting: Is Sanwo-Olu looking for a scapegoat?
By Barrister John Atani The aftermath of the #EndSARS protests across the country is an ugly phenomenon no one would want to recall. The #EndSARS protest started like a revolution staged digitally by its promoters before it spreads like wildfire to the streets touching the nooks and corners of the nation. As it was for […]
#ENDSARS: As parents, we must apologise to the youths
By Arc Kabir Ibrahim In Nigeria the protests against the generally unjust behavior of a squad of overzealous policemen drew the attention of older citizens to the possible remedy to the inequity perpetrated by the SARS unit principally evolved to bring about peace and justice due to the rampant robbery and incessant kidnappings as well as […]
Ending SARS, or ending the press
By Segun Ige The remarkable response of National Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Kunle Edun, to the N500,000-N5m jacking of hate speech fine has obviously been jettisoned. Edun’s claim that “the press as the fourth estate of the realm plays the constitutional role of our democracy in the face of increasing impunity, […]
Sanwo-Olu’s Kangaroo Court on Lekki Tollgate incident
By Philip Agbese Anyone taken aback by the turn of events around the #EndSARS protests and the Lekki Tollgate conundrum in Lagos State must have been negligent of the events that led to the 2019 election that produced Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the state governor. He emerged candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) […]
#ENDSARS PROTEST: Where did the Nigerian youth miss it?
By Henry Ofe, #ENDSARS October 2020 Protest was novel. It will go down as the most patriotic national civil agitation in Nigeria history hitherto. The famous Aba women riot cannot by any chance rival the indelible strides of the Nigerian youths in the past two weeks. Before the Lekki Toll Gate genocide tore my tear […]
