LAST weekend, I met Daniel Amokachie, ex-International soccer star and assistant coach of our national team. Naturally, we spoke about the current state of our football and he gave me interesting insights into problems dogging […]
“Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are the people’s interests. They take people’s resources and turn them into personal wealth. There is a level of poverty in […]
PEOPLE of goodwill have been disturbed about the level of violence around our elections. Early this year, the fears here were succinctly captured in the words of Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the former Secretary-General of the […]
Joe Onwukeme, a public affairs analyst, reflects on the role of religion in Nigeria’s political terrain, concluding that Nigerians need to come together as one, irrespective of religious, ethnic or party affiliations, for the country […]
The Lagos State Government is constrained to respond to an article titled,” Lekki Toll: Biggest Fraud Ever Conceived and Committed” published in The Herald of 13th February, 2015, and many other online platforms. This has become […]
popularly called Aeroland, is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District. In this interview with journalists in Lagos, he speaks on why he ventures into politics, his plans for his constituents […]
Curiously, in an attempt to align with public sentiment, in an election year, government was stampeded by popular demand to concede and accommodate a N10/litre subsidy on a reduced pump price of N87/litre. Clearly, this […]
House of Representatives Committee on Sports has asked the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to discontinue the ongoing contract negotiation with Stephen Keshi, urging the coach to forget coaching the national team again. House Committee Chairman, […]
ACTUALLY, it is a bit unfair to single out Mr Ayodele Fayose, the alleged rigged – into – office governor of Ekiti State( just listen to the hottest audio record in Nigeria, the Ekiti Election […]
SOCIAL scientists determine ethnicity to be an artificial construct based on shared beliefs of identity created over time. Groups (and their leaders) create certain beliefs in order to implement political strategies and control their followers. […]
In the tribute I paid to the late Malam Abubakar Gimba last week, I said his open letter to President Olusegun Obasanjo on August 27, 2001 was one of the three best articles I have […]
ORDINARILY, the glut in the global oil market ought to bring succour to consumers of fuel products in not only enjoying surplus supply but also low price of the commodities. When there is surplus in […]
IN all my years of studying elections, I have never seen a campaign as bogus as that of Muhammadu Buhari. It is amazing that, for a man who is running for election as president for […]
Chief Chekwas Okorie is the Presidential candidate as well as National Chairman of the United Progressive Party, UPP. In this interview, he previews the forthcoming contest, his chances and the lot of Ndigbo among other […]
That the Jonathan presidential court is deep in the sewers, when it should epitomise rarefied refinement, is underscored by the crude electioneering outbursts by First Lady, Patience Jonathan. It is damning symbolism, showing how low […]
Two famous lines immediately came to mind on hearing ruling of the Federal High Court Abuja ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register Young Democratic Party (YDP). The first is that of George […]
IT is only a blind person that will hold so tightly to his or her slave master. Some people are so “dead in the head” that they cannot live without their punishers and enslavers. When […]
“I am highly honoured to be considered by you for appointment as Secretary of State. I am fully confident that I could serve our country ably and effectively in that role. However, if nominated, I […]
The Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER) yesterday said that the endorsement of President Goodluck for a second term by selected Yoruba monarchs led by the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, was a […]
It is bad enough that at a time that we should have put the 2015 elections behind us, and be eagerly awaiting the swearing-in of a newly elected president, state governors and legislators, Nigerians are […]
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