Category: Opinion

By Sanya Oni There you have it. Two television interviews in quick succession followed by a broadcast all in a space of 72 hours, supporters of our media-averse president can now sit back and relax in confidence that the First Citizen not only ‘killed it” but has finally put paid to the wild speculations about […]

The attacks and consequent destruction visited on the offices of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) across the country, particularly the Southeast, is a cause for grave concern, considering also that the nation’s next general elections is less than 22 months away. By the latest count, about 41 of the electoral commission’s offices and other valuables […]

By Segun Ige The two-day National Public Hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution is, indeed, a great step towards national integration and development. That’s how transformation, reformation and restoration begin. Great changes don’t happen in one fell swoop. In their recently released book, Change Your World, John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins significantly noted […]

Photo/facebook/FMICNigeria By Martins Oloja We should thank the God of all comfort Whose grace enabled the recent interviews our president granted two television stations shortly before the Democracy Day’s speech, yesterday. I would like to join the people who should be bold enough to say, ‘It is the Lord’s doing and so it is marvelous […]

By Femi Adesina I felt like embracing Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, a couple of weeks back when he left the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Was that because I work with a President elected on the platform of the APC? Not necessarily so. Yes, I’ve never really […]

But there is only one thing, which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression,” once wrote an English philosopher, John Locke. Once again, as the country marks ‘Democracy Day’ on Saturday, the malignant ghost of the criminal annulment, 28 years ago, of the presidential election hovers over the land. In the struggle that […]

In apparent recognition of the contradictions of the Nigerian federation in practice and as engrossed in the 1999 Constitution, the Nigerian upper legislative chamber, the Senate, early last year set up a Constitution Amendment Committee under the leadership of the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege. The committee after initial stalling called for memoranda from […]

By Olalekan Adigun Like many people, I was affected by the sudden and rather harsh decision, of the Nigerian government to suspend Twitter operations in the country till further notice. The government followed this swiftly by directing telecommunications networks to carry out the decision to the letter. This was obviously not a decision anyone welcomed, […]

By Niyi Akinnaso “When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions” -Claudius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Perhaps no statement could have captured the current Nigerian situation better than the above Shakespearean dictum. Virtually everything that could go wrong has gone wrong with Nigeria, earning the country negative assessments on all international indices. Only […]

Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, inspecting a quarter guard, during his assumption of duty at the Army headquarters in Abuja… Photo: NAN President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of Major-General Farouk Yahaya, 55, as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) has been criticised in various circles for various reasons. This is not unexpected as Yahaya, […]