Category: Opinion

The furore in the national assembly over the recent amendment of the electoral bill has not escaped the attention of millions of Nigerians who have been following the said exercise with religious interest. The process of recruitment of leadership in Nigeria has been a big problem with the country having a fair share of misgovernance […]

Not a few believe that Nigeria is being governed on the whims and caprices of state actors who have the least respect for the rule of law but in surplus of expression of ethnic bigotry and partisan disposition to running the affairs of the country. It is in this respect that happenings in South Africa […]

This year’s festival of the ram (as the Eid-el Kabir is otherwise called) for Muslims all over the world, should hopefully serve as a refresher for Nigerians, from series of bad occurrences that they have had to contend with in the last one year. At least, they have two days to play with as public […]

The restlessness that has greeted the passage of the much-talked about Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly (NASS), the other day, has clearly counteracted the desired goodwill that the proposed law should ordinarily command. The bill ought to represent a good starting point in the effort to re-position the oil and gas industry […]

The battle to renew the Nigerian union based on equity, justice and fairness has undoubtedly gained some significant traction. It is perhaps only the standpatters that are recalcitrant to this quest because of short-term gains from a badly skewed state structure. The path of wisdom is to negotiate and do the right thing for the […]

As the Federal High Court in Abuja gets set on July 26, 2021 to continue the trial of Nnamdi Kanu for treasonable felony, government’s inadequate answers to questions raging over the circumstances of his re-arrest are unlikely to stem the controversy on the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). No doubt, his re-arrest and […]

This file photo taken on February 28, 1990 shows Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda (2nd L) and South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela (L) attending a press conference at the Presidential House in Lusaka. – Zambia’s first President, Kenneth Kaunda, died aged 97 on June 17, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Joe/AFP Founding father […]

By Jide Oluwajuyitan Speaking at the APC Caretakers Committee Executive meeting last Friday at the State House which has since its first inauguration on June 25, 2020 become APC new secretariat, President Buhari reminded Nigerians of “the crisis that engulfed the APC, leading to litigations and presented a picture of selfishness and division,’’ adding “We […]

The restructuring debate is obviously assuming new intensity with stand patters fighting back to undermine the vision for a new Nigeria. Equally, the reform campaigners are not resting on their oars. They are persuaded that the restoration of restructuring as a crucial component of development agenda is an idea whose time has indeed come. And […]