The unidentified problem of Nigeria: From forced migration to AUTOSUCOM Revolution (I)
By Victor-Bandele Dada For more than six decades, Nigeria has debated its problems without ever adequately identifying the problem beneath the problems. Economists have diagnosed fiscal instability. Political scientists have examined institutional weakness. Sociologists have studied ethnic and religious fragmentation. Development specialists have focused on poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and human capital. Security analysts have examined […]
Why Labour Party remains dominant in Ondo
Now that the elections have come and gone, we turn our searchlight and focus on Ondo State, where the Labour Party (LP) has continued to ‘rule the roost’ and has now taken over from the PDP as the dominant party in the state by flooring both the PDP and the Action Congress (ACN) in the National and State House of Assembly elections, thereby consolidating its firm foothold on political power in the Sunshine State which was triggered off in 2009, when the courts declared Governor Segun Mimiko winner of the gubernatorial polls of 2007.
APGA’S triumph of tenacity in Imo
IT is now clear that the supplementary elections for governor conducted Friday last week in Imo State was an ego massage; the elections were duly concluded on Tuesday April 26 and a winner, Chief Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, clearly emerged as the winner. But like Chief Okorocha has said, it was still alright to ‘fulfill all righteousness’.
Let the debate continue
IN the past couple of years, there has been increased media attention concerning reproductive health and rights in general and abortion in particular.
Raph Uwechue @ 76
SOMETHING of a big argument has surfaced on the recently conducted presidential election. Who delivered the Igbo vote to President Goodluck Jonathan? The governors of the South East have those who give them the credit. But it is one credit that must be mediated by the Governors’ showings in the rest of the general elections.
What does Emenike want In Abia?
BEFORE the April governorship poll in Abia State , Chief Ikechi Emenike was in court challenging the candidature of Governor Theodore Orji as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, in the election. Emenike lost the case at the Federal High Court, Abuja and many had expected him to close rank with Orji like other major stakeholders in the State to move the State forward. Before the election, he had a reconciliatory meeting with Governor Orji who happens to be his brother and kinsman. In the meeting, he agreed to work with Orji for the success of the party in the elections.
