Issues/Policy

Twice on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari displayed an uncommon generosity of spirit. We had set forth at dawn, shortly before 5 a.m, to visit the presidential campaign office in Central Area of Abuja. The purpose […]

More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local official said Saturday. The blast early Friday caused massive oil spillage in the Nembe […]

Some few days ago, the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the current Nigerian President, for another four-year tenure. Controversial as the election that ushered him in maybe, the tasks before Mr Muhammadu Buhari remains very […]

IN the words of John Donne, 17th Century Jacobean metaphysical poet-cleric, “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls […]

Oludayo Tade The struggle for the number one seat of Nigeria has now climaxed with the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari -The Indomitable Lion of Daura (TILD)- as re-elected for another four years. In an […]

I wish to congratulate all Nigerians for the successful conclusion of the presidential election. I pray that the next four years will move Nigeria from glory to glory. All Nigerians are winners, whether they voted […]

Dateline: Friday, February 15, 9pm, Abuja, Area 3 Shopping Plaza. I dash off to the petrol station to fill up my tank for the assignment of the much awaited presidential election of February 16. On […]

At last we witnessed it: the 2019 presidential election which has been “won” and lost,” and which shall give rise and further rise to the problem of ethnic conflict in our country. We voted last […]

Political ideology does not fall from heaven. A political party could be ideological by virtue of the historical circumstances that gave birth to it. Of course, a political party could also transform into being an […]

Brethren, is it not true that the only sense of shame some of us have in this country today is the complete absence of sense of shame? The subject matter of shame and modesty is […]

A society like ours where impunity and criminality are condoned and politicised as acceptable norms, can hardly change… When bad ways are legitimised as normal, such a society is doomed and apparently has lost its […]

Letter writing has a history that goes back thousands of years. For instance, a few surviving letters suggest it was common practice to write letters to the dead in ancient Egypt. Some of these letters […]

In today’s Nigeria, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, cuts the most perfect image of the devil, whose appearance could be white or dark depending on which of his two […]

One of the indelible memories of the period of Nigeria’s return to democracy firmly etched in my mind was the 1999 Peoples Democratic Party primary election in Jos, Plateau State. I still recall, distinctly, how […]

Refinement of the mind and aptitude to make informed decisions and ability of objective and rational judgement, like most practical skills, come with the ageing process if one is continuously exposed to logic. This is […]

After my article on this space last week, entitled “Between pole shift and polls shift”, I got a number of messages from readers who wanted a more indepth explanation of the term pole shift, or […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday said he would reclaim his ‘stolen’ mandate. Speaking during a world press conference in Abuja, he said […]

Several hours before the winner of the 2019 presidential polls would officially become known, Fela Durotoye was already being treated to a feast of hi-fives and fist-bumps. Prior to the sermon Sunday morning, worshippers at […]

The outright rejection of the results of the 2019 national election by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), even before the final votes were counted, is very discouraging. The action departs from the two principles that […]

For those who intend to literally or metaphorically follow President Muhammadu Buhari’s “shoot ballot box snatchers” order, quality education is a good thing. It was in Prof Joseph Omoroge’s Ethics class at the University of […]