The continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by the Department of State Services (DSS), has understandably remained controversial. While there are divergences of perspectives on this subject, the call for a political solution to the protracted issue rather than judicial resolution is gaining momentum partly because the […]
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2022/2023 graduating students of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State. (Credit: Covenant University) By Etim Etim I attended the 18th convocation ceremony of Covenant University last Friday. In all, 1, 175 graduates received Bachelor’s degrees and 204 got Master’s and Ph.Ds. My son, Emmanuel, graduated top of the class in mechanical engineering. It was the first […]
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hand with President of Nigeria Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 9, 2023. (Photo by AFP) The recent statement by the presidential spokesman, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, that Nigeria is considering applying to join the G-20, an […]
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Photo Credit: Premium Times Ameh Occhojila, in this report, examines the argument about separating the offices of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from that of the Minister of Justice, as well as the propriety of the President serving as the minister of Petroleum. The debates over the need to bifurcate the office of […]
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Egbetokun By Adewole Kehinde On Monday, 19th June 2023, President Bola Tinubu appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police. Egbetokun replaces Usman Baba, who was appointed Inspector General of Police by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2021. It has been over a hundred days since he was appointed, and […]
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Nigeria’s 63rd Independence anniversary in Abuja… .Credit: Philip Ojisua By Ayo Baje To strike the delicate balance between Nigeria’s vast, God-given resources of oil and gas, fertile fields for huge agricultural practices, rare solid minerals, places of scenic, spell-binding tourist attractions and the persisting paradox of pervasive poverty of the led majority is not rocket […]
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Nigerian election. (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) The average Nigerian or African believes that democracy’s promises to the people have been broken. Hunger, the prevalence of official corruption, the opulent lives of government elite, and collapse of institutions testify to this belief. Participation in the process of producing elected officials is severely compromised. […]
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Fayemi. Photo/facebook/JKayodeFayemi By Alabi Williams Politicians and scholars are calling for a review of the variant of democracy that is in vogue in Africa, where citizens don’t get rewarded with a better life and the electoral process becomes something like magic, such that it becomes easier to take a voyage to the moon than for […]
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The huge acknowledgement given to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu following his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) annual meeting in New York could very well signal a new beginning for Nigeria in her quest to command the respect of the international community as a country serious and eager to develop in the actual […]
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African military juntas Public attention being drawn on the efficacy of democracy as a system of government desirable or preferable to any other such as monarchical or military, is a necessary subject, going by recent happenings in neighbouring Niger Republic and Gabon, where soldiers have toppled democratically elected governments. Not a few other African countries […]
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