25 years after the military nullified the outcome of Nigeria’s democratic elections of June 12, 1993, the country, today led by another soldier from the past, marches into the future with its gaze firmly fixed backwards. Now as then, the country needs a committed civic coalition to show up and reclaim a space increasingly constrained by a regime that shows casual disregard for both democracy and the citizens from whom it receives its mandate to rule.

There are three aspects – the strategic, the political and the legal – to the Federal Government’s decision to replace May 29 with June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, and to confer on the late Chief MKO Abiola, the highest honour in the land.

IT is a happy homecoming for  me 30 years after I spoke at Oduduwa hall as a guest of the OAU Students Union. It was at the height of the advocacy for mass action by Nigerian students who were being galvanized against the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, of the military administration.

It’s not a threat, but a motion that is about to commence. If Buhari is not impeached in the next three months, there will be no elections from the look of things. It will shock Nigerians to note that as for now, we are undergoing total breakdown of law and order with the Buhari executive’s excesses over NASS and the Judiciary. He must be impeached to restore confidence on our economy by the international community because they have lost confidence in Nigeria.

THE attention of Urhobo Historical Society has been drawn to an opinion piece in Vanguard(30/5/2018, p. 18), titled “UPU: Urhobo ancestors are in tears.” It seeks to defame the current President General of Urhobo Progress Union, Olorogun Moses Taiga, by falsely claiming that he is not an Urhobo man.