Not until Muntader al-Zaidi’s act of suicidal daring was the world jolted to shoe-throwing as a form of Arab expression of deep social anger. Visiting President George Bush was only beginning to warm into a […]
Reactions ranging from hand-wringing to fatalistic acceptance have trailed the downward review by International Monetary Fund (IMF) of Nigeria’s 2019 growth rate from 2.3 per cent (which the IMF itself had soothsaid in October 2018) […]
We take one step forward and a hundred steps backward. Policies are invented from the moon and almost circumvented at the point of implementation, while players and policy handlers carry on as if the nation […]
Words have meaning and they can be used to devastating effect especially when the tone is given virility. On February 18, 2019 at the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari said; “Anybody […]
THE atmosphere of great disappointment occasioned by the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections from February 16 to Saturday, February 23, 2019 has understandably put major political actors and the electorate on edge. […]
The Presidency has reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment that anyone who dares to snatch ballot boxes during next weekend’s elections will be doing this for the last time. It said Mr Buhari’s comments should be […]
The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Michael Abikoye, has protested the inhuman treatment of Nigerians by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) with the deportation of 723 Nigerians between 2018 and 2019. Mr Abikoye said this […]
Less than six days to Nigeria’s Presidential elections, postponed from February 16, Nigerians once again are witnessing a taste of what another 4 years of power would be in Buhari’s Nigeria after the home of […]
Last Saturday (February 16th) ought to have witnessed the organization of the much-anticipated presidential election in Nigeria. But it never happened! At the wee hours of Friday night the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had […]
Had everything gone to plan, a new or recycled Nigerian President would have emerged by now. But it wasn’t to be. Roughly five hours to the scheduled commencement of voting on Saturday morning, Mahmood Yakubu, […]
Will an election conducted under the cumulus of suspicion, doubt and allegations against the umpire of the exercise be accepted by most Nigerians? Do Nigerians still believe in the integrity of INEC? Is the commission […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Uyi Giwa Osagie, the lawyer and treasurer of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, for alleged money laundering. Osagie was arrested on Monday following the arrest of […]
An associate professor from America University, Carl LeVan, has explained why he thinks the ruling party, All Party Congress (APC) won the 2015 general election. Mr LeVan gave an analysis during a development discourse organised […]
The Nigeria Customs Service, says its officers involved in the incident that occurred along Ijebu Ode road on Sunday are being interrogated. Mr Joseph Attah, the Public Relations Officer of NCS made this known in […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has dropped its invitation to Okechukwu Ibeanu, the national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in charge of logistics, TheCable understands. He had been asked to report […]
The political space is inundated with unfounded allegations that have no bearing to pertinent issues of economical and industrial development, endemic and perennial religious conflicts, infrastructural decay, cultural rot and ethnic inwardness. The presence of […]
There was something unsettling, destabilising and embarrassing about the announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission that the long-awaited 2019 elections were postponed by one week. The first reason was that the postponement came just […]
The 2019 elections in Nigeria will now commence on Saturday, February 23, following last-minute postponement last weekend by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The attention of the world is turned on the country, and for […]
Although natural resource conflicts were common in the early 1990s, violent fatalities between farmers and cattle rearers have been as tremendous as the daily ritual killings across Nigeria, particularly since 2006 till date. If death […]
Tayo Oke (drtayooke@gmail.com) This week’s column had been cleared for a take on capital markets in the aftermath of the elections, before the Independent National Electoral Commission somehow conspired to make itself the centre of […]
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