Issues/Policy

(Being a paper delivered by Femi Falana SAN at the Public Hearing on Improving the Capacity of Citizens on the Use of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 held by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project […]

Fellow Nigerians, It has given me tremendous delight to address you all, my compatriots, through this open letter. As you all know I am a man of few words. I am not a professional letter-writer […]

Atedo Peterside, a banking wunderkid who later metamorphosed into an enabler of and court intellectual for a discredited and degenerate administration, hit a new low yesterday. He set a dubious record. In purporting to release […]

Five intersecting developments have occurred in this long election cycle that, taken together, and regardless of who wins or loses in Saturday’s presidential elections, can only be good for our fledgling democracy. 1. INCUMBENCY IS […]

The perennial ambition of Atiku Abubakar to preside over Nigeria finally comes to a dead end this February 16, 2019. This failure is neither because of the extraordinary qualities nor the exceptional performance of President […]

The Buhari administration has been in office for nearly four years. At this juncture, it is appropriate to take a closer look at some of the key highlights of the administration. What has the administration […]

In the last few months I have written many articles on the forthcoming elections, its ways and wiles, its winding ways and wondrous wiles that I am now bored. I even contributed some articles to […]

In the course of the 2015 general elections, I travelled through the peril of bad roads to Ekpoma to cast my vote in the presidential election. Truly, I voted for Buhari. Despite the irregularities of […]

In the course of the 2015 general elections, I travelled through the peril of bad roads to Ekpoma to cast my vote in the presidential election. Truly, I voted for Buhari. Despite the irregularities of […]

Election in Nigeria is more of a war than a contest. The benefits of public office attract people to politics and make them desperate for power. Candidates employ devious tactics to win, as if losing […]

It is no gainsaying that Ogun State is one of the states to watch out for in the forthcoming general elections as it appears to be a politically sophisticated state. In the last six months, […]

Eze Onyekpere (censoj@gmail.com; 08127235995) Nigerians are voting on Saturday, February 16, 2019; to either retain the current President or elect a new one entirely. The voting day is already here with us. It is a […]

Tunde Odesola (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) In life and in death, Gen Sani Abacha, the unsmiling dictator who ruled Nigeria like a personal prison, was a short man. His military precursor and Public Enemy Extraordinaire, the brutal General […]

A number of dramatic incidents have been recorded since President Muhammadu Buhari came out on the hustings, preparatory to the February 16 presidential election. Those incidents have compelled a revisit of the Jubril el-Sudaniya narrative. […]

Drug dependence takes a terrible toll on an individual’s health and well-being. However, the consequences of drug use are not limited to the individual – the illicit use of drugs can be emotionally, socially and […]

The subject of the narrative, in this column, last week, was the $7bn which Festus Odoko, a former Central Bank of Nigeria Corporate Affairs Director, confirmed had been deposited with 14 Nigerian banks in October […]

“Although the crude oil which nature has endowed the Nigerian nation with is found and drilled mainly in the South-south,” a friend wrote to me recently, “almost all the Nigerian oil barons and moguls are […]

When the Police Service Commission announced late last year that it was seeking to fill 10,000 police positions, more than 242,000 hopefuls applied. That’s approximately 24 applicants for one position, and that’s considerable show of […]