Issues/Policy

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 […]

Nigerians went to the polls on Saturday, February 23, 2014 to elect a new President and members of the Senate and House of Representatives respectively. In essence, the elections were to constitute the executive and […]

The palpable public anger provoked by the sudden postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections in the early hours of February 17, 2019, barely six hours before polling should have commenced, might have since […]

In the wake of the case involving the suspended Chief Justice of the federation, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, (68) GCON, it seems we are much concerned about the Constitutional protection for the judicial officers […]

Wherever the electoral pendulum swings in a few days’ time…we will all suffer the consequences of our electoral decisions. If Abubakar is announced president…and…begins to play ring leader, with his gang of thieves and ravaging […]

As we enter a new electoral cycle, our need to save off a transgenerational (wasting) asset (our crude oil exports) is as urgent as the requirement to break away from the procyclical spending patterns that […]

In what the major candidates promised to do for Nigeria, defeating Boko Haram did not feature prominently. Yet, that may be the winner’s greatest challenge right next to revving up the economy. Information Minister Lai […]

I write this ahead of Nigeria’s re-scheduled presidential and National Assembly elections of February 23, 2019. It will be available after the election but before the results, and I take the opportunity to examine what […]

If you ask me, I would say there are three critical stages of elections in Nigeria — and each is potentially explosive. The first is pre-election, where campaign rhetoric is usually a major trigger for […]

Ethno-religious leanings or socio-political ideology notwithstanding, it is almost improbable for any society to underestimate the contributions of some people to the emancipation of its people and the realisation of the dream of its founding […]