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 […]
Ikpeazu and the opposition challenge
The All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, and his co-travellers could go to any length to achieve their ambition. But the more they try to hoodwink the people, the more their underbelly is exposed.
Oceans of blood and the words of Inua Wada
Nothing empowers the spirit more than the truth. Nothing warms the soul more than the truth. Nothing dispels the darkness more than the truth.
WS: A sojourner among liars
Professor Wole Soyinka was quoted saying his latest book is the “nastiest” that he has written so far. InterInventions: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie- A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2015, 136pp) is quite close to being just that.
Random musing on Buhari’s maiden Council of State
THE front page of Vanguard of Thursday, the 22nd October 2015, carried a picture of the members who attended the maiden Council of State meeting held in Abuja, five months after President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB, was sworn in as our President.
FRCN: Interrogating the objectivity of a regulator
WITH a seeming arrogant posture, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, on October 26 posted on its website the outcome of its investigation of Stanbic IBTC for alleged infractions claimed by minority shareholders of the company, fronting as the Trusted Shareholders Association of Nigeria, TSAN and bankrolled by the Mahtani brothers of the Churchgate Group.
