Category: Opinion

The country’s general election will take place next year. But the quest of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to increase the pool of registered voters nationwide is being shrouded in doubts. It will be recalled that the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had made the point last year that the commission was expected to […]

By Sola Oni The title of this piece is a reminder of the classic novel, published in 1977, by the English author, Jeffery Archer “Shall We Tell The President”? The Theme is about the plot to kill the President of the United States, Edward Kennedy, but foiled by the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) Agent, […]

By Okoh Aihe The Nigerian government was effusive last week as it announced lifting the ban which it placed on Twitter since June 4, 2021. Like a flash, the news trended globally, with local and international media organisations feasting on the statement from government, to the effect that the action was taken after the microblogging […]

By Tunde Odesola Globally, crime is the fugitive that lurks behind every insane quest for money, power and drugs. In most underdeveloped countries, Nigeria inclusive, crime walks unashamedly naked, bigger than the aforementioned threesome, bending the arms of the law over backwards like a twisted branch of a tree. In developed countries, however, crime – […]

By Martins Oloja That was a thorny question one of my sisters was asking emotionally as the undertakers were lowering the casket bearing the remains of my father last Friday afternoon. I was shaken that I would not see the ‘Baba Aladura’ again. Every one of the ten surviving children was sobbing, muttering nonsensical things […]

By Ogheneochuko Arodovwe The news of a letter written by the Ijaw nationalist, Chief E.K. Clark, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the latter’s reply have dominated online news platforms in this yuletide season. Clark in his letter condemned in strong terms Obasanjo’s position that the oil in the Niger Delta belonged to Nigeria. So […]

By Eric Ikhilae The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice is a creation of the 1999 Constitution under sections 150(1) & (2). The current occupant of the office is Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Abubakar Malami. Malami was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and is regarded as […]

By Sanya Oni For an administration that have, all too often, preferred the bubble of exaggerated self-assessment to the living reality that have come to define the lot of the ordinary citizen, it must have come something of a relief for its army of critics that Channel Television’s Seun Okinbaloye reeled out the stats that […]

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha That officials of the Nigerian state have made the spurious claim that the gunmen who have unleashed a savage orgy of bloodletting and violence in many sections of the Nigerian federation are unknown, is a profound, if miserable contradiction in tragic terms. Ours is drama without a hero, of only villains […]