The Rigging Gig By Fola Ojo
willieojo@yahoo.com Permit me to start off this week’s treatise with a heartfelt Godly appeal. I ask that you do not bunch me up in the league of noisy religious rattlers who often spin into empty […]
willieojo@yahoo.com Permit me to start off this week’s treatise with a heartfelt Godly appeal. I ask that you do not bunch me up in the league of noisy religious rattlers who often spin into empty […]
Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com 07055841236 “There is overabundant leadership quality locked up in the nation, and it is a collective shortcoming that the political space has not been sufficiently opened up to let […]
The opportunity to serve in my current capacity at the Independent National Electoral Commission has opened my eyes to many underlying factors that shape the conduct of elections in a way I would never have […]
’Tunji Ajibade; tunjioa@yahoo.com 08036683657 I did not see the postponement of the elections initially scheduled for February 16 coming. I had retired the previous night without attaching any importance to the emergency meeting the Independent […]
The Englishman says experience is the best teacher, and this goes to say that after nearly four years as a democratically elected leader, President Muhammadu Buhari must have learnt some lessons about the fundamentals of […]
Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. And a third of the living creatures in […]
Shortly after the first set of results in the presidential election emerged and it turned out that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had received a shellacking at his polling unit at the Victoria Garden City, a […]
Make no mistake about it, when the 1,632,293 voters armed with their Permanent Voter Cards head to the 4,523 polling units, 4,752 voting points, 305 wards of the 654 autonomous communities located in the 27 […]
Nigeria’s presidential election had come and gone but the weak economic players who in the aggregate, strive to keep the economy going outside the outliers – the oligarchs and oil money swindlers – remain greatly […]
Unless the citizens resolve to prosecute an urgent rescue agenda, the nation’s hard-won democracy would collapse at the hands of President Muhammadu Buhari. And above the rubble would be autocracy and anarchy. These are not […]
The only reason why this flagrant rape on rights happen is that perpetrators and political oligarchs who sponsor them are ultra confident they and their thugs would not be arrested, prosecuted or thrown into prison. […]
If there is anything the results of the Ondo central senatorial district election depict, it is the power of the people over the popularity of the candidate. Truly, the power of the people is much […]
…in my view, BOS has, through various public engagements in the last few months, undoubtedly demonstrated a sharper grasp of relevant issues in public governance, bringing to bear his rich experience in the private sector. […]
Rapprochement is the word – reestablishment of a happy relationship or rearrangement. A peace treaty between warring parties is a kind of rapprochement. That is the real perspective to the mission of Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah […]
In 1942, a group of young progressive intellectuals from the north congregated in Bauchi, among whom were Saadu Zungur, Malam Aminu Kano, Dr. R. K.B. Dikko, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Malam Yahaya Gusau, all […]
No one should be intimidated in the name of elections, writes Anthony A. Kila There are moments and events in history where being aloof or confused is not only wrong but ultimately dangerous. The current […]
Four years ago, it was business as usual — drive to the port to clear your goods, and maybe tip the security agencies if you so wish. But in 2016, this routine changed, the decision […]
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth” – Plato If only our political leaders put the overall interest of our dear nation, Nigeria, above their greed-driven, self-serving whims and caprices; if […]
The outcome of the recently conducted Presidential election confirmed the prediction of many that it would be a two-horse race between the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, and the Peoples Democratic Party, the […]
A former Speaker of America’s House of Representatives, late Tip O’Neill, once said that all politics is local. This is reflected in what sociologists call gemeinschaft, “social relations between individuals, based on close personal and […]
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