Articles by Omoniyi Osadare

Eight years ago, Jimi Agbaje ran a very impressive campaign when he first came into public consciousness and was contesting for the gubernatorial job in Lagos State. His jingles were catchy and his message resonated. […]

He is so passionate about tomorrow. And so, looking back, he discovered that not a healthy and solid foundation had been laid for a strong future. To him, the return of democracy in 1999 was […]

Director General, National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Lady Onyeka Onwenu, in this interview with Saturday Independent Editor, Charles Okogene, speaks on the centre, its activities, and how women have fared under President Goodluck Jonathan’s […]

One thing that sets this year’s electoral campaign miles apart from the previous ones is the overflowing stream of cheap talk – call it pedestrian propaganda. One is also astonished at the creative, even if […]

On the evening of September 26, 1960, about seventy million Americans watched two men debate on a live television show. The men were both candidates for the office of President of the United States. The […]

  The National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) proposed for a postponement of the February 14 Presidential elections in Chatham House, London. His reason was for the populace to get the permanent voters cards […]

So the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decided to postpone the 2015 elections with just seven days to go? What a shame. Since January 2014 — more than a year ago — when INEC released […]

And finally, it came to pass. After a week of meetings, speculations and sliceable tension, Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Saturday night announced a six-week postponement of the […]

There  is a saying  that  those  who  live  in  glass  house  should not  throw  stones. The  rationale  for this is  the  dark  prospect of  retaliation which  could   be more  heinous  and destructive given  the structure […]

When the National Chairman of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, in company with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, ad­dressed the party’s faithful at the Township Stadium in Umuahia recently, he mandat­ed them to […]

Possibly the worst year of my life was 1984. I was 10 years old and blissfully unaware of the changing face of Nigeria’s political land­scape. And a rather unyielding face it was – that of […]

President Goodluck Jonathan once had a father. His name is Olusegun Obasanjo, aka Owu Chief. Father was so good to him that he schemed for him, imposed him on others, defended him against a weak […]

At last, the hour for genuine Nigerians to vote the future they desire has started being truncated. This Saturday presidential election has been pushed out of the will of the people. The desperation of those […]

Olujimi Kolawole Agbaje needs little intro­duction in the politics of Lagos State. The man popularly called JK, a once-upon-a-time progressive is surprisingly the Lagos gov­ernorship candidate of the conservative Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He stoked […]

All things being equal, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold this Saturday. There is no cogent reason they should not hold despite suggestions from some quarters that they be postponed due to the […]