Issues/Policy

Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com Some months ago, one of my favourite writers in the Nigerian column writing circuit predicted that by this election season, electoral permutation based on mere geopolitical calculations would be obsolete […]

“Ordinarily, elections should be the celebration of liberty and democracy. Unfortunately, they have become( in Nigeria) periods of trepidation, speculation and uncertainty” –A former Minister for Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, The PUNCH, February 10, 2019. […]

The stage is set for tomorrow’s presidential election in Nigeria. Candidates are inspiring their supporters in last ditch efforts, leaving no stone unturned. Seventy three candidates are on the ballot but sitting President Muhammadu Buhari […]

The popular consciousness of the people is an extremely crucial factor in every democratic setting because it enables them to be `aware of their rights and benefits under the law. It also gives them insights […]

The popular consciousness of the people is an extremely crucial factor in every democratic setting because it enables them to be `aware of their rights and benefits under the law. It also gives them insights […]

Mr. President-Elect, I want to congratulate you on your election as the President of the nation Nigeria. Majority of Nigerians have demonstrated their trust in you and in your ability to change the nation for […]

By Seun Bisuga For young adults, Valentine’s Day is more drama than a love affair. It throws up all sorts of stories, from cheating to doubling dating, to trying to fix up all your boyfriends […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has campaigned in this election exactly as he has governed since 2015, true to the values in which he has believed all his adult life: our security, a diversified economy and an […]

AS the first set of elections draw close, I feel compelled once more to offer a word of caution to Nigerians, especially, the youths, as I did four years ago with an article entitled, Nigerian […]

I’d never had the head for figures. In fact, the enmity between me and mathematics was so bad that if you gave me a bottle, and you asked me to use the bottom to write […]

Continued from yesterday Meanwhile, the strongest arguments against Atiku were also those that were bandied around by some of his new friends who were his erstwhile political enemies. All of a sudden, they would have […]

Until after the election of Saturday, we are denied the prescience to tabulate its winner and losers and thus the nation’s president in the next four years. Clearly, poll predictions, even when they seem to […]

We talk of “incumbency factor” in an election in which one of the competitors is the occupant of the position being contested. Otherwise, an election in which an incumbent is not involved is referred to […]

On Saturday, February 16, 84,004,084 registered voters, the highest in Nigeria’s political history, are expected to march to the 119,973 polling units across the country (in 2015, there were 68,833,476 voters) to either renew the […]

The obscene incident at the presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Monday, tells more of the Nigerian polity than it does of the ruling party. Quite alright, […]

Blood-letting has become the order of the day. The entire Middle-belt has become the open killing field of land-grabbing Fulani herdsmen whose murderous activities are countenanced by current wielders of state power. We are all […]

John lives and works in Nairobi. He does not have a bank account and he stores any excess cash he has at home, under his mattress. John’s family lives hours away, in rural Kenya. Previously, […]

There is increasing intentional attention on Nigeria’s general elections, a matter of days away. Given the seeming desperation of political players, there are fears locally and internationally that things could go wrong if politicians throw […]