Category: Opinion

The legal battle brewing over the presidential election of February 25, 2023, no doubt is a sign of the keen contest of the election in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared former Lagos State Governor and pro-democracy activist, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner. Beyond the court, […]

Customers queue to withdraw newly-designed Nigerian naira banknotes at a Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Ltd. branch in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Photographer: Benson Ibeabuchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Abiodun Olusoga Fanoro It was Lord Acton, a Professor of History in Cambridge in a letter he sent to his bishop on April 5, […]

“The rule of law upon which our democratic governance is founded becomes illusory if the President of the country or any authority or person refuses to obey the orders of courts,” thus proclaimed Justice Emmanuel Agim, delivering the lead judgment in the case brought by three state governments – Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara – against […]

By Jide Ojo ‘The rule of law upon which our democratic governance is founded becomes illusory if the President of the country or any authority or person refuses to obey the orders of courts. The disobedience of orders of courts by the President in a constitutional democracy as ours is a sign of the failure […]

By Niran Adedokun I saw a very chilling video on Monday. In it, a man who did not bother to hide his identity threatened some people he did not name about this weekend’s governorship elections. He said that anyone voting in the election must vote for only one party and nothing else. He dared his […]

By Abimbola Adelakun The ethnic irredentists who regularly punctuate the atmosphere with the dog whistle of Yorùbá ro’nú are not sincerely invested in the gains of contemplation. If they were, they would deploy the same gusto to call for a reflection on the Yorùbá condition within this contraption called Nigeria. We would be asked to […]

By Tunde Odesola When cornered by death or stalked by danger, an insect called the Malaysian Exploding Ant turns against its assailant, ruptures its abdominal muscles, causing its poisonous glands to explode. With the explosion of the poisonous glands, the ant releases an irritating substance in all directions. The released secretion is capable of immobilising […]

THE postponement of the governorship and state houses of assembly elections nationwide originally scheduled for Saturday, by one week by the Independent National Electoral Commission confirms its logistical, administrative, and technical incompetence. This further prolongs the agony of Nigerians in the country’s excruciating elections as anxiety and despair pervade the country over the war-like political […]

By Jide Johnson The Blue Rail Line inaugurated by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, during the commemoration of completion ceremony for the First Phase of Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line (Marina – Mile 2), at the National Theatre Blue line station, Iganmu…yesterday. (Inset: Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (left); Managing Director, Lagos […]