In part 1, we saw a sort of bidirectional indication of how restructuring might unfold. It dealt with the constricting effects of over-centralization. In the case of education, we saw the apathy-inducing complications of separating […]
This panic would have been unnecessary if the APC learnt anything from history… The die is cast! With active politicking for 2019 in top gear, it is unclear if the president and his party have […]
The legacy of June 12 typifies unity because Nigerians came out en masse and voted for a Muslim-Muslim Ticket. This is a feat that may be impossible to achieve in present-day Nigeria. On June 12, […]
…what the government has not done, and what it will not do, is to make official the result of the 1993 election. The 1993 election was annulled because of the results… The election was annulled […]
Bashy kept to his promise. He has not been invited to the special national honours ceremony for Bashorun M.K.O Abiola. He died two years ago. He is survived by a daughter. Ruth’s daughter…. I used […]
The ‘End SARS Campaign’ is a shot in the air. The campaign is a combustion of citizens’ frustration without galvanised action. It is a right cause with a hollow purpose. Police brutality and criminality predate […]
A Federal Capital Territory High Court will on Tuesday deliver judgement in an alleged case of fraud brought against former Plateau State governor, Joshua Dariye. Mr Dariye is accused of diverting N1.162 billion from the […]
At a time when Nigerians are clamouring for proper federalism that entails devolution of powers to the states and local authorities, the introduction of a Water Resources Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, to further alienate […]
A fundamental question which arose from the breakthrough of the internet was the expediency of giving everybody access. That question came at time in the early 80s after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the […]
We feel the pains of underdevelopment every day, that is, the pains of the Third World. Whereas in Christian eschatology the Third World is paradise, for us in the present system of things, it is […]
The war on corruption is not one to be fought in the media to get plaudits for political capital. Certainly, it cannot be successfully prosecuted without proper public service and judicial structures that can sustain […]
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent announcement designating June 12 as Democracy Day and the award of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) honour to late Chief M.K.O. Abiola has sent Nigeria’s political world into […]
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party and former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, have disagreed over the motive behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to declare June 12 Democracy Day and honour the late Chief MKO Abiola. […]
It took 25 years to happen — long enough for the dream to have evaporated — but Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola has finally taken his place in history as the number-one martyr of Nigerian […]
Perhaps it is because June 12 so fiercely burst some of the myths propounded by those who do not mean well for our people and passed around by many ignorant ones that they are so […]
On Tuesday, June 12, it will be the 25th Anniversary of the Presidential election of 1993. Many claimed it was the freest election held in this country. Sadly it was annulled. To some it was […]
The Nigerian press has of late been inundated with bold headlines that have in the main strived to demonise former President Olusegun Obasanjo and paint him as a plain thief that stole the nation blind […]
The decision of the Federal Government to ban syrups containing codeine is one decisive step towards stemming the phenomenal and widespread abuse of that and many other drugs by Nigerians. Codeine is a short-acting narcotic […]
Introduction Hope—that was the campaign slogan of late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola in the 1993 general elections. It is no longer news that Nigerians despite their ethnicity, tribe and religion bought into this vision […]
How do we explain the avalanche of commendations that followed President Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as the new Democracy Day? June 12, 1993 has evolved from an ordinary day in Nigeria’s political history to […]
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