A VERY rare civil servant, Alhaji Gidado Idris,GCON, will be eighty on Sunday March 15. He has served his country for 42 years.And he has seen it all. He has shaped and witnessed history in his years of service.

THE waning hopes of proponents of generational shift recently received a new surge of life with the emergence of the youthful Julius Gbabojor Pondi, who clinched the House of Representative ticket of the ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party to vie for the seat of Burutu federal constituency.

DAME Patience Faka Jonathan is the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, the most maligned president that Nigeria has ever produced.

IN a political sense, conspiracy refers to a group of persons united in the goal of usurping or overthrowing an established political power. In the Nigerian context, political conspiracy can be defined as an amalgamation of entrenched parochial interest of a cabal or cartel to keep exploiting the nation at the overall expense of the masses.

For the sake of clarity, I must first point out that while all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, it is all work and no exercise that makes him an unfit one. From all indications earlier in the week, Friday 7th March, 2015 was meant to be a busy day for members and supporters of both the ruling People’s Democratic Party and the opposition All Progressives’ Congress.

IT is my wife who has been passionately involved in the social media arguments about the best candidates for the 2015 presidential elections. Observed from the social media stand-point, the campaigns pendulum seems to be swinging in favour of the candidacy of Dr Goodluck Jonathan. It was not so from the beginning

AMIDST the cacophony of voices, claims and counter claims by various shades of politicians, have we really paused to consider the type of elections we like to take place on the March 28th and April 11th respectively? Do we desire a truly free and fair election? Do we desire that every eligible voter must be allowed to cast his/her vote? Do we desire that no one, no matter his standing, be disenfranchised? Do we desire that the elections should have a truly even and national spread?

The last time Nigerians enjoyed something really close to an exciting Presidential debate was during the 1993 Presidential elections. I recall the colourful and memorable encounter between the late Chief MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party and Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention

MIKE Onuzulike, in a national newspaperof February 28, attempted a rebuttal of the facts contained in the article, “Ndukwe’s Burden of Misrepresentation”, earlier published in some national newspapers written by Chukwuka Odinaka.

ONE of the most salutory events in the ongoing electioneering frenzy in Delta State is the emergence of Olorogun O‘tega Emerhor as the governorship flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Best known as a visionary and business angel who breathed life into companies and corporate entities that had gone comatose, Emerhor joined the Delta governorship race with a lofty vision to rework Delta State and make life meaningful for the people.

WE are barely three weeks from the Presidential/National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives) election and another two weeks after, there will be the Governorship/State House of Assembly elections. The closeness of the elections this season has resulted in various tactics to win votes. One troubling approach is the use of religion and ethnocentrism by various candidates.

IN this season of high wire political campaigns and effusions in the media the following intervention has become necessary if only as a means of helping readers whose minds are daily inundated with diverse political sentiments by persons and groups jostling to make impressions in their hearts and so get them to buy into and support the ideas they are espousing.

FOR those who have a profound appreciation of power and its most penetrating insight as well, the fact of the matter, as the Italians once succinctly put it, is that power cannot be wrested no matter the paradigm one uses without certain attributes by the group or individual that jockeys after it. Popularized as the […]

THE end of 2014 brought the conclusion of the African Union’s Year of Agriculture and Food Security. But most Africans work in some aspect of agriculture, and for them, every year is dedicated to agriculture and food security.

NIGERIAN military has accumulated years of successful war campaigns both within and outside the shores of our country.They prevailed in the Nigerian three years civil war against Biafra from 1966 to 1970, and kept Nigeria one.