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 […]
June 12: How democratic is our democracy?
YES, it stands out like a sore thumb-and really it is a sore thumb whose exquisite pain throbs and refuses, in all its cabuncular virulence, to go – that is June 12 for you.
Democracy, tears and transformation
FOURTEEN years back, Nigeria had a chequered history of governance. About 13 rulers rather than leaders have at different periods remote-controlled and swaggered the compass of the nation from the Sahara to the coast.
NGF – Suppose Jang won?
IF like me, you thought the distraction called the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, election would have passed quietly, and quickly, you would have been disappointed at the space and spats it is claiming.
Chief E.K. Clark’s season of vilification
EVERY event has a season. Agere fruit, the staple fruit of birds in Amasuomo forest in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, has its own season of bloom and harvest. So, it is with mortals, particularly mortals who have marked their footprints in the sands of time.
Fashola: Rein-in these agencies
PETER Viereck once defined barbarism as “blindness to the standards of conduct which civilization has over imposed on human nature”.
