Politics

The big problem is that we are not yet a nation. We are not yet Nigerians in the sense in which a country is propelled by love and patriotism. We are a country of villagers, […]

IRONICALLY, the more evidence that the power of PR will not always work for power, the more the powerful seem to depend on it to work wonders. Interestingly, the testimony of a publicity specialist on […]

More than 16 years into the Fourth Republic, the overwhelming evidence suggests that our National Assembly, rather than facilitate, has become the major obstacle to the attainment of the full benefits of democracy for Nigeria’s […]

I’M not a fan of Kaduna State Executive Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. I find him rather brash. Even with some of my friends serving in his government, I did not think highly of administration. Then last […]

Details have emerged about what the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, allegedly wrote in the torn statement which he made under caution while in the custody of the Economic and […]

The House of Representatives said on Sunday that it had invited the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr. Seyi Sjuwade, over the ongoing investigation into […]

ABUJA—A key member of the Ejike Oguebego faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State, Chief Chris Uba, has warned his brother, Senator Andy Uba, Ms. Stella Oduah and others affected by the Supreme […]

One of the recent features of public administration trajectory in the world today is the profusion of schools and institutes of government and public policy around the globe—the Kennedy School of Government (US), Lee Kwan […]

Opinions are not lacking when it comes to the issue of Biafra and the Nigerian Civil War. There are fictional and non-fictional books themed around it. Personal stories have been passed down. Articles written and […]

Less than two weeks ago, Kogi State bit the wrong bullet when, with the help of the electoral body and other political titans, they prepared to inaugurate Yahaya Bello as the governor.  Apparently, this was […]

I do not blame the British who have gone to Abuja to tell the usual ego-massaging and patronising lies to the postcolonised about himself and his society. I blame Nigerians for the kind of postcolonial […]

Since inception, they have operated like a cult and in the sixteen years of the PDP, not even the loudest opposition member had the guts to openly disclose what he or she earns.  A glutton […]

What is your take on the arms deal scandal? The major problem of Nigeria is corruption, it used to come in form of inflating of contract or using some unscrupulous ways to do some cover-up, […]

If the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency is to be taken seriously about its determination to engage corruption in a do-or-die warfare, then it would have to do more than the weekly assessments tendered by the Minister […]

The House of Representatives has directed the Federal Government to halt the mass retrenchment of Teachers and Workers of University Staff Secondary Schools and Primary Schools across the country. The leadership of Senior Staff Association […]

Nigerian, you already know by now that Baba Olusegun Obasanjo recently wrote a letter to the National Assembly, calling them names and accusing them of corruption. That the National Assembly has been Nigeria’s most notorious […]