The world’s most successful social reformer Mr. Deng Xiaoping, who took his country from the backwater of social chaos and economic meltdown to steady modernization and unprecedented prosperity actually assumed preemient leadership position of the […]
THE issue of deployment of troops for elections in Nigeria has been an enduring dialectic in the annals of our democracy. Many chroniclers of the crises that led to the truncation of our democracy in […]
Times are so frenetically awash with political activities of a sort never before known. Of all the Heads of State any nation has ever had, none epitomizes the true state of his country as Obasanjo […]
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has challenged the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, to present the receipt of the make-up tax the politician is supposed to […]
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 104). Seldom does a commentator find himself in a position of the defender of a big […]
When in late 2013, Lamido Sanusi, then Central Bank governor wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan asserting that about $20 billion was not accounted for by NNPC, many Nigerians dismissed the claim with a wave of […]
A MULTI-COLOURED full page advert in a national newspaper of Monday February 23 titled ‘Let My Experience Work For You’ showed the CV and work experience of APC governorship candidate Akin Ambode in various colours […]
FEW people are likely to be surprised that the Jonathan administration has not reacted to the recording released by Sahara Reporters in which a junior defence minister claims that he was mandated by the president […]
I AM deeply concerned and flummoxed, as are most decent Nigerians, about the present political quagmire we find ourselves in, against a backdrop of the collapse or near collapse of governmental structures and services, widespread […]
I MUST give kudos to the progenitors of the peace accord between President Jonathan and General Buhari for this 2015 general election into the office of the president, and now being emulated and adopted at […]
TWO weeks ago, I received from a Nigerian who identified himself as Professor EJC Nwana, a letter in which he told me he was “thoroughly worried that your hatred of President Jonathan has been elevated […]
The APC Candidate has been on a tour of the UK, chaperoned by his political campaign advisers Dr. Kayode Fayemi and Mr. Chibuike Amaechi. Two things are rather immediately clear from Buhari’s UK tours: one, […]
The long-awaited report of the forensic audit on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which the Federal Government hired PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to conduct has finally been released. As with almost everything in these political times, […]
The legendary sociologist scholar, Max Weber defined a successful state as ‘one that could be said to succeed if it maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force’. Another intellectual giant, Robert Bates […]
One drawback critics of General Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian version of Abraham Lincoln have pointed out is his lack of international appeal. He pales in significance when compared with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The latter […]
From PETRUS OBI, THE SUN In his interview recently the Secretary General of the Igbo apex body Ohanaeze Ndigbo Dr. Joe Nwaorgu dismissed insinuations of a division in the Igbo body, describing the caretaker committee […]
A few years back, it was a common practice among members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to describe their political party as the largest in Africa. None of us outside the party bothered to […]
The plan by the Federal Government to make a first degree the minimum teaching qualification in Nigeria is a worthwhile aspiration that should help improve the quality of teaching in the country. Education Minister, Ibrahim […]
An unstable currency is a precursor to airline failure. Even in a stable economy, airline business is virtually unprofitable, or has very low return on investment. Since October 2014, our currency, the naira, has been […]
Honourable Simon Yakubu Arabo, a lawyer, represents Kauru federal constituency of Kaduna State on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with Juliet Oyoyo, DAILY INDEPENDENT he speaks on the postponement of […]
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