Category: Opinion

By Leo Sobechi Senate President, Ahmad Lawan’s decision to revise the appointment of Dr. Festus Adedayo as his Media Aide comes off with a protruding belly of interpretations and implications, especially given his promises of bipartisan collaboration and cooperation for national unity and progress. The development, which presented as a cross between a miscarriage and abortion, […]

By Ogbuagu Anikwe The way we are going, it appears we are now being made to believe that Nigeria’s democracy is best promoted as a one-party system! If we believe otherwise, why are some of us demonizing those who are not in our party, and shamelessly championing exclusion of persons from geographical areas where our […]

By Reuben Abati Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as part of its review of the 2019 General elections in the country is reportedly working on a proposal for the alteration of the 1999 Constitution as amended to enable it reduce the number of political parties in the country. A total of 91 political parties […]

It came as an unlikely political bolt. And a rumour took false currency that President Muhammadu Buhari had endorsed the idea of state police, and that would mean dramatic pirouette in the position of the number one citizen on that matter. But it might well be. What triggered the speculation was President Buhari’s order that […]

By Lai Olurode Glowing tributes and encomiums must never be denied Nigerian leaders of all shades in the early phase of our struggle for freedom, and particularly, for the resistance they mustered against slave trade and colonial domination. Of course, there were elements from within whose levels of political consciousness and patriotism were at ground zero […]

By Martins Oloja This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, Uncle Eric Teniola, who hails from Ondo state. The thought-provoking brief triggered this article on the state of […]

By Jide Ojo WITH a consensus unknown in the past, Nigerians will today rise to uphold the sacredness of June 12 as an essential milestone in the democratic history of the country. For the first time, the country will, with one accord, mark the date as a public holiday, instead of the past practice where […]

By Reuben Abati It is ironic that it had to take a member of the military establishment now turned democrat, that is General, now President Muhammadu Buhari for June 12 to be accorded its pride of place in the socio-political calendar of the Federal Government of Nigeria. Before now, the recognition/celebration of June 12 as […]

A handout image released by the Nigerian Presidential Press Services on May 29, 2019 shows Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari waving from a car as he arrives to his inauguration ceremony in Abuja. Buhari was sworn in for a second term in office on May 29, 2019, vowing once more to tackle crippling security threats and […]