When the state turns the law against dissent under Tinubu’s watch
By KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN It is happening again. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigerians are facing an increasingly repressive political and legal environment. Like the Muhammadu Buhari government before it, the Tinubu administration is making an utter mockery of Nigeria’s constitutional and international obligations to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law. There is something […]
PDP and infrastructure development
ALL over the world there is a growing appetite for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as a vehicle for the financing of public infrastructure.
Jonathan presents change
THE candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan represents a new dawn in the social, economic and political history of Nigeria since independence. In a country fraught with political thuggery and intolerance since independence, the entrance of the Dr. Jonathan into Nigeria’s troubled political mainstream has greatly minimised political, religious and economic tension considering his patient and intelligent maneuvers.
Abia is waiting
IT is seldom said that those who live in a glass house should not throw stones, because they might end up becoming victims.
Juxtaposing the late Murtala Muhammed legacies and the April polls
ON February 13, 2011, it will be precisely 35 years our former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed, was assassinated on a black Friday (February 13, 1976) in a military coup.
Edo: Politics of road development
FOR anyone who has followed his career, it would not come as a surprise that Chris Ogiemwenyi a petroleum engineer and the Minister of State in the Federal Ministry of Works has brought glamour and competence into the act of governance in just few months on the job.
Bashorun Ogieh: Meeting the needs of Isoko South people
RIGHT from his inauguration as the Chairman of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Bashorun Askia Ogieh (JP) has always had a clear vision of the enormity of the task before him.
Warri North constituency, monopoly of riverine politicians
ONE of the most complex problems in Nigeria, it has been dispassionately observed, is that of recycled leadership.
Kwarans have come of age
For the past one month or so, several articles have been published in some national dailies analysing the political situation in Kwara State in manners that suggest that the people of the state remain perpetually subservient to the Saraki political dynasty.
Beyond Shekarau’s tenure as governor
The election of Governor Ibrahim Shekarau to fly the flag of the ANPP in the April presidential election is most timely, appropriate and a cheering news to all lovers of democracy across the land.
‘We can do without unsubstantiated reports on the Federal Ministry of Health’
My complaint is with regard to a report by your reporter, Victoria Ojeme. The story is at page 22 of Sunday Vanguard of February 6, 2010. It is titled, “FG’s War against cholera at risk – storage of vaccines raises eye brow”. Beside the story is a photograph of the vaccines referred to in the story with the caption, “Imported vaccines allegedly left under the sun”.
