INEC and the road to 2027
By Ayo Ododo There are probably few jobs in Nigeria more thankless than conducting an election. The winner thinks he won because the people loved him. The loser is often convinced he lost because somebody somewhere tampered with the process. Between the two stands the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), praised by one side, condemned […]
Makpa Malla and the struggle for local govt autonomy
IN a landmark judgement by Justice Abdulfatai of the Lagos state high court, the erudite judged unequivocally declared that no governor was empowered by the constitution to take over the administration of local governments through sole administrators or caretaker committees
Independent Kurdistan for Peace and Co-existence
Today most experts agree that the current state system in the Middle East that has been created since World War One is not sustainable. For almost one hundred years, the state system delivered massacres, genocides, deportations, global discrimination, and poverty for Kurdistan. In addition,
Emefiele and the economic crisis burden
LET us assume I do not like Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Let us also assume that I believe every public officer in Nigeria deserves nothing but abuse, name-calling and scandalisation.
Fulani herdsmen and others
THE delicate nature of Nigeria was brought to the fore after the election of Goodluck Jonathan to the Presidency in year 2011, when some of us vowed not to allow a so called infidel to rule them and promised to make the nation ungovernable for him.
Subsidy removal and its aftermath
HERE we go again. President Muhammadu Buhari’s, PMB, government like so many others before it has done what others have done. Remove fuel subsidy. Usually as this event happens, there is protestation.
