Category: Opinion

By Anthony A. Akinwale Our lives are not safe. Neither are our belongings. We are not at peace. There is war on every part of our land. We are afraid. We are unemployed. We are poor. We are hungry. We are deeply religious. We are in search of a Messiah. Some of us say they […]

Alarm by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that some politicians have been buying up PVCs and financially inducing unsuspecting voters to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers ahead of the 2023 general elections should no longer be news to the commission and Nigerians generally. It is almost given that politicians, by virtue of their desperation […]

APC chairman Adamu But concerned Nigerians would not let it be forgotten that they gave APC the job and an opportunity to govern on the strength of its promises that include to ‘‘entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit.’’ Sustained agitation forced the party to set up, in August 2017, a 23-person Committee on Federalism […]

Continued from yesterday To buttress the above assertion, the National Assembly of Nigeria, on June 28, 2003, established the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, consisting of volunteers and regular members. The NSCDC Act in its section 3 (1) (a), vests the Corps with power to ‘assist in the maintenance of peace and order and […]

By Ray Ekpu When the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, told the world that the 2023 elections in Nigeria may be postponed or cancelled, we all felt depressed. Many people must have wondered what may happen next? Will the Buhari government and the governments of the states get an unconstitutional extension of their tenure? Will […]

In this season of election, electioneering, political campaign and manifesto promotion, it is only appropriate to ask pertinent (and even urgent questions) of first, political parties and second, of seekers of public offices. As one ancient adage goes, if you ask the right question, you will get the right answer. And considering that aspirants into […]

By Lasisi Olagunju Ibadan of 1914 witnessed the founding of a club with a very unique name: Egbé Àgbà ò Tán (Society of Elders-Have-Not-Gone-Extinct). Why did they have to choose that name? The old in Ibadan of that period were at an intersection between a receding era that belonged to them and a rude, crude, […]

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa No time in history has any government responded to the plight of their people than the courageous decision of governors of the South west region of Nigeria to set up the Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun Corps. The priority of any government should be how to secure the lives and property […]

President Muhammadu Buhari during the presentation of the 2023 budget to the joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. Credit: Philip Ojisua,; Infofraphics: Olakunle Olaniyi Aside the pomp and pageantry (a yearly ritual) that attended the signing into law of the Federal Government 2023 Budget, there is very little to cheer Nigerians who are […]