IN October 1977, my friend Mallam Mohammed Haruna then of the New Nigerian introduced me to Mallam Adamu Ciroma (1934-2018) at the premises of the parliament building in Lagos where the session of the Constituent Assembly was held. Mallam Haruna a powerful writer, is now a Commissioner at INEC whose weekly column is on recess now because of his present assignment at INEC. Although it was a brief introduction on that day but it was the beginning of my friendship with Mallam Adamu Ciroma. I was told later that he was one of the contributors of the weekly column in the New Nigerian newspaper titled CANDIDO – The man behind the mask.

ON December 4, 2017 in Washington D.C, United States of America, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Ambassador Roberto Balzaretti, Secretary of State and Director of the Directorate of International Law and Rachid Benmessaoud, Country Director for Nigeria, the International Development Association, IDA,  signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU.

One is not surprised at the designation of Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world; this sorry state is the culmination of years of bad governance

In every election cycle since independence, the problem has been how to deal with issues relating to election management in Nigeria, especially the activities of the electoral umpire.

Obi has demonstrated in concrete terms that with vision, commitment and will, it is possible to make positive impact on society

For over six weeks, Rivers State held the entire country spell-bound. The Third Year Anniversary Celebration of the Wike administration brought to the fore, the fundamentals of good governance in the face of governance failure in majority of the states of the Federation. 

It has been long accepted by developmental scholars and social scientists that the primary responsibility of a leader is to envisage the best future for the led and set the right parameters in place for them to attain lofty heights.

In a tweet he tweeted on January 9, 2012, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, tagged Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala a “zero”. Not too long after, a nasty little child who was promoted by the same El-Rufai, tweeted that Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was ‘overrated’.

I was in Ijebu Ode yesterday at the invitation of an elderly political leader in that town. By the way, I have been told that Ogun West senatorial area will be difficult, if not completely impossible, to convince the people from that part of Ogun State to vote for me because there is an avowed commitment by the two major clans that comprise the zone to support only a candidate that comes from there.

On the other governance issues like the economy and security which the opposition takes delight to criticise, the president has entrusted qualified individuals to superintend them and he is providing the requisite leadership gravitas