Month: February 2019

For those who intend to literally or metaphorically follow President Muhammadu Buhari’s “shoot ballot box snatchers” order, quality education is a good thing. It was in Prof Joseph Omoroge’s Ethics class at the University of […]

Nigerians went to the polls on Saturday, February 23, 2014 to elect a new President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives respectively. In essence, the elections were to constitute the executive and […]

The palpable public anger provoked by the sudden postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections in the early hours of February 17, 2019, barely six hours before polling should have commenced, might have since […]

In the wake of the case involving the suspended Chief Justice of the federation, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, (68) GCON, it seems we are much concerned about the Constitutional protection for the judicial officers […]

Wherever the electoral pendulum swings in a few days’ time…we will all suffer the consequences of our electoral decisions. If Abubakar is announced president…and…begins to play ring leader, with his gang of thieves and ravaging […]

As we enter a new electoral cycle, our need to save off a transgenerational (wasting) asset (our crude oil exports) is as urgent as the requirement to break away from the procyclical spending patterns that […]

In what the major candidates promised to do for Nigeria, defeating Boko Haram did not feature prominently. Yet, that may be the winner’s greatest challenge right next to revving up the economy. Information Minister Lai […]

I write this ahead of Nigeria’s re-scheduled presidential and National Assembly elections of February 23, 2019. It will be available after the election but before the results, and I take the opportunity to examine what […]