ONDO ELECTION, OUR DEMOCRACY: Lessons for Nigeria from the United States poll, by Mike Igini, ex-Resident Electoral Commissioner By Dapo Akinrefon Mike Igini, until recently the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Cross River and Edo […]
Government at all levels should stop funding journeys undertaken for religious reasons to save needless expenditure, writes Vincent Obia Is it right for government to spend millions of naira annually on sponsoring religious trips by […]
It is no longer news that there’s no love lost between the federal lawmakers and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The animosity dates back to the latter’s time as president. All through his eight years tenure […]
After many years of being in the political doldrums, the business tycoon cum politician, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has come out calling on President Buhari to informally or formally arrange for an Igbo President in 2019. […]
DESPITE being widely thought to have consulted fortune tellers, President Yahya Jammeh surely foresaw little chance of an upset in the elections in Gambia on December 1st. Ahead of the polls, the man who once […]
The president has a cordial relationship with his successor, who questioned his birthplace and whom he called ‘unfit’ and ‘unprepared’ to enter the Oval Office Last Saturday, a phone rang at the White House. The […]
The dilemma I am American; born, raised and still living in New York City and I am, without hyperbole, devastated. I feel my country, in electing Donald Trump, has just been led down the road […]
Bill Maher hasn’t been shy about his disgust with Donald Trump or, as the comedian calls them, his “whiny little bitch” supporters. And on Saturday, nearly a month after the Republican won the election, the […]
Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has hailed the Federal High Court, Abuja judgement, ordering the release of the leader of the Shi’ite Muslim sect, Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife, as well as payment of […]
The victory of Chief Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress in the last Saturday governorship election in Ondo State was not celebrated in the state alone. It was also celebrated inside the Villa, but […]
Donald Trump lost the vote for president by well over two-and-a-half million votes and counting, and it’s driving him out of his mind. Because our odd electoral system gives more weight to voters in small, […]
The Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Friday condemned plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to borrow $29,960 billion for the country. Mr. Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, said it would […]
…godfathers define themselves as men who have the power to substitute themselves for the voting citizenry during elections by determining who gets nominated to contest for elections in political parties and who wins the subsequent […]
I cannot tell whether the word, Agbalowomeri, existed in the Yoruba lexicon before the late J.F. Odunjo gave meaning to it with his definitive book, Agbalomeri Baale Jontolo Written in 1958, the play is about […]
The Ondo State governor-elect, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, on Wednesday, said he did not acknowledge a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in his victory speech on Sunday because it was not […]
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said the killings in Southern Kaduna by suspected herdsmen is pure criminality and has nothing to do with ethnicity and religion. Speaking to reporters, the governor faulted the statement […]
The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Shehu Sani, has attacked Governor Nasir El-Rufai, describing him as a “dubious progressive.” Mr. Sani, who was controversially suspended by a faction of the party in his […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission certainly outdid itself in Ondo State, especially when measured against its recent consecutive inconclusive elections. Right from the distribution of electoral materials to accreditation and finally to the election proper, […]
For anyone who might like to see Michelle Obama run for president as a Democrat, it’s time to rein in that early enthusiasm. Or so says her husband, President Barack Obama. “Michelle will never run […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has counted 867 hate incidents in the 10 days after the US election, a report released Tuesday found, a phenomenon it partly blamed on the rhetoric of Donald Trump. […]
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