Issues/Policy

Anybody who thinks that the 2019 elections are over is surely a stranger in Nigeria, or is living in a dream-land or is being mischievous. The 2019 elections are far from over! Like all Nollywood […]

Despite the apprehension and heightened expectations about the 2019 elections, a constant feature was that at the end of the day, there would be only one winner. For the first time in Nigeria’s electioneering history, […]

Towards the end of 2017, a colleague of mine based in Abuja called and briefed me of an Efcc matter involving his client who is based in South Africa. He informed me that the client […]

Nigeria is an exciting country we celebrate mediocrity! We are in the habit of solving symptoms of a problem instead of transforming the root causes! We keep complaining that we are not making progress as […]

As the race to who succeed Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was gathering momentum sometimes in 2018, the names of some politicians were still found wanting and scarce in the political space. Many were […]

After the money and the muscling, come the lawyers. Win or lose, the election war chest is incomplete without funds for the likely legal battle afterwards. The legal option can redefine winning and losing in […]

The 2019 general election in Nigeria has been described by international and local observers, stakeholders, direct participants and the electorate themselves as a “disappointment”, “ a bad day for democracy”, “a step back from whatever […]

Election in Nigeria is a battle of fists rather than a game of wits. The nation has gotten almost nothing right since independence and still cannot conduct free, fair and credible elections. The insatiable thirst […]

Nigerians keep complaining that the young lad Tani who’s a now a good chess player and his parents could not have fled Nigeria due to Boko Haram terrorists because their names suggest they’re Yoruba and […]

I have said it so many times that when Nigerian politicians converge to map out plans for acquiring power which, in most cases, practically translates to securing unlimited access to unearned wealth, they do not […]

At the end of the extraordinarily tumultuous weeks in Nigeria’s politics, one thing is at least clear: After all the elections hullabaloo, Nigeria remains one indivisible nation. All the fear of crisis was swept away […]

Doing by recent reports, the nation’s microfinance landscape is about to change following the nod by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the establishment of a National Microfinance Bank. The new financial institution is a […]

There is no gainsaying the fact that corruption is very endemic in Nigeria. Otherwise, the menace will never have featured in electoral campaigns in this part of the world. If there is no corruption, there […]

At last week’s stakeholders’ meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board held at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, a mug, which its Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, described as a ‘magic cup’, was given to participants. […]

I know I shouldn’t encourage your tendency towards cynicism, but this is one instance where an exception would be permissible. If you felt that the upcoming elections present a Hobson’s choice of sorts, I understand. […]

Reno Omokri, former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says the claim that N1.3 trillion was stolen between 2011 and 2015 was untrue. In a statement on Tuesday, Omokri said the claim by Ibrahim Magu, acting […]

A recent survey by Afrobarometer, a pan-African research network, says more than one-third of the African population has considered migrating from the continent. The survey, published on Tuesday, drew data from 45,823 interviews across 34 […]

The federal government yesterday inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee to investigate the causes of building collapse in the country with a view to arresting it. Inaugurating the committee, the minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya […]

ENUGU- OIL magnet, publisher and winner of Anambra South Senatorial district election, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah has denied stories making the rounds that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ubah has recently been […]

ABUJA – The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, will on Wednesday, commence hearing on the petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the […]