Issues/Policy

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) Wednesrday called for the arrest of the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), the national leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, the Governor […]

LET me first start, that like all Nigerian patriots, I feel happy that in a few weeks, the Nigerian Army and allies from Chad and Niger, inflicted backbreaking blows on the Boko Haram insurgency. As […]

With their husbands embedded in last minute strategy schemes, the wives of the two major presidential candidates, Mrs. Patience Jonathan and Aisha Buhari are moving round the country in mobilisation schemes to bring out the […]

It is said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Perhaps, a worse fate awaits those who willfully distort history. The current election cycle has featured a great deal […]

There is no doubt that the only way the Igbos apart from political accident can produce the president in the country is by zoning. If not for the sudden demise of President Umaru Musa Yar […]

Doubtless, the most poetic comment on the serious error on this page last Wednesday was the one that came from a highly respected senior colleague describing the mistake a “Freudian coup”. Instead of the “public […]

The story you are about to read points to the fact that, that “nice man” you call your husband or that “beautiful lady” you call your wife may just be a demon in the house. […]

With the last, dying gasp of the old order, a new society is been midwifed.The presidential election on the 28th of this month will be pivotal alright but what else does it portend? In a […]

ON the February 3, 2012, a debate was held at the Angus Memorial Hall, on the campus of Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Igbobi College. The occasion […]

It looked like a scene on a modern theater stage re-enacting a familiar but long-forgotten incident of the primordial days. A man from the world of modern civilization lost in the jungle and straying into […]

There had been no little or no petrol in the country’s petrol stations for five months. The president was missing – and had been for months. The country was drifting aimlessly, on the brink. The […]

A group, the Buhari Volunteer Network, yesterday denied insinuation by the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO)  that the All Progressive Party presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, will collaborating with western nations to support […]

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion, Mohammed Ali, had once remarked that a challenger needs to “whop the champion” if he wants to win the championship belt. He had made this remark following one of his […]

A commentator, Ahmed Salami, points out the danger of sacking the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, before the polls. The most frightening and disturbing controversy since the build-up to […]

“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times”, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Except the August 6, 1983 Presidential […]

Chief Ayo Opadokun, a former Secretary- General of pan – Yoruba socio- political organization, Afenifere and National Coordinator of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER), in this interview with DAILY  INDEPENDENT, SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, […]

It is quite unfortunate that despite the overwhelming public outrage over his alleged key role in the Ekiti election rigging scandal, the Nigerian Senate has gone ahead to approve the appointment of Musiliu Obanikoro for […]

“You can’t prove deeds with words”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Although the dictionary included dishonesty among the definitions of corruption, President Jonathan had insisted that it is only stealing. I fully accept his definition of what happens […]

Without doubt, I have a dog in this fight. As the spokesperson for DStv, there should be no gar­lands for guessing the dog I am backing. Like everybody else, I have followed the public re­sponse […]