Issues/Policy

On Thursday February 26th 2015 I produced a series of video clips which covered the demonstrations by some Nigerians in the United Kingdom outside Chatham House where the leading Nigerian opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) […]

WITH our eyes locked firmly on the Nigerian electoral process, and the forthcoming Presidential elections, on the one hand. And battling the creeping and crippling economic crisis in our country, on the other, we can […]

EVERY State, Country or Organization has a Constitution – the body of laws, basic principles, rules and regulations – by which it is governed. The Constitution is variously referred to as the ground-norms and the […]

Chatham House or the Royal Institute of International Affairs, as it is also known, is an independent policy institute based in London. Founded in 1920, it operates from an imposing 18th-century house located at No. […]

Before the simulated postponement of the general election scheduled to hold on February 14 and 28, 2015, Chief Edwin Clark and some ethnic champions had called for the removal of the chairman of the Independent […]

Franklin D. Roosevelt, former President of America, was first to propose the idea of creating a Presidential Library where the Presidential papers, transpirations of significant events and gifts accumulated during his administration could be housed […]

The media helmsman of the Goodluck Jonathan\Sambo team femi fani- kayode(ffk)  has clearly defined his job in a way that will haunt our politics as well as the very concept of societal cohesion and indeed […]

Kudos to the Nigerian military for getting back its groove. For too long we have wondered what went wrong, thrown our hands up in despair at its seeming incompetence and confusion, at the way it […]

ISSUES in the political campaign trail,as widely predicted, have been like no other before now.The polity is frenzily heated up.Real issues that should define the elections,in fact,national issues that the voters want to hear and […]

      We must thank the House Public Accounts Committee for finally waking up to the duty of reminding us of one terrible absurdity that is less talked about – and yet inextricably linked […]

It was long expected. Many Nigerians had given up hope. They believed and rightly so that they were unfortunately saddled with an armchair C-in-C. But alas, he awoke from his inertia too late. President Goodluck […]

In the interest of full disclosure, let me say from the outset that this piece is nonpartisan. It is, instead, an apolitical academic exercise, primarily intended as a simple legal treatise, without being personal, on […]

President Goodluck Jonathan left no one in doubt about the type of campaign he wanted to run when he picked well known loose cannon with no modicum of decency, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, as his campaign […]

Recent developments in the political space are contradicting some presumed norms among the Yoruba. This human specie though rooted in diplomatic garb has always refused to play the underlings. Proud of its historical and cultural […]

When Muhammadu Buhari overthrew a democratically-elected government in a coup d”etat in 1983, Sani Abacha declared in his infamous radio broadcast: “(Our) health services are in shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting […]

The Caucasians in their intellectual arrogance widely opined that Africa had no history prior to their coming. African historians and anthropologists took this bare-faced affront as a daunting challenge and showed that indeed Africa had […]

THE issue of deployment of troops for elections in Nigeria has been an enduring dialectic in the annals of our democracy. Many chroniclers of the crises that led to the truncation of our democracy in […]

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 104). Seldom does a commentator find himself in a position of the defender of a big […]