Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps
By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
Jimi Agbaje, thorn in the flesh of ‘Eko’
By Abayomi Oladapo At the last count, there were more than 10 persons vying for the governorship seat of Lagos in the 2019 elections. The candidates included the likes of: Adebisi Ogunsanya (YPP), Omolara Adesanya (PPC), Muyiwa Fafowora (ADC), Babatunde Gbadamosi (ADP), Jimi Agbaje (PDP), Jide Sanwoolu (APC), Funsho Awe (NCP), Oluyinka Oyeniji (ANN), Owolabi Salis […]
The Courts and Politics: A Poisonous Relationship
A polity that seeks judicial answers to political questions runs the risk of undermining its judiciary while simultaneously perpetuating the underdevelopment of its political process.
APC best gifts to Lagosians: Sanwo-Olu/Hamzat
Evidently, Lagos is far blessed with its array of competent leaders than vast economic potentials and opportunities. If economic prospects make a place great, what do we say of countries located on the mouth of Atlantic Ocean but without economic prosperities as Lagos, which is just one State in Nigeria.
Interrogating ethnic syndicates and political endorsement
Ethnic nationalities are in themselves epitomes of diverse political interests and views and no ethnic nationality can claim to represent a specific political tendency
Warri Federal Constituency: Probing the dynamics, narratives
The 2019 election is around the corner and the people of Warri Federal Constituency have an opportunity to decide and shape the direction of progress of her people for the next four years. This is going to be an important next four years in our political evolution and relevance in the ethnic coalition called Nigeria.
