PEACEBUILDING and conflict management are such a noble task, that peace practitioners in our midst must be constantly commended and supported. The Christian religion recognises peace practitioners among the “blessed.” In Matthew’s Gospel (5:9), the […]
Posted on my e-mail by a Ghanaian friend sometime ago was this damning statement: “Nigerians, a people who are so forward in looking backward (e.g. they cherish celebrating anniversaries and memorials) but so backward in […]
Continuing, a degenerate and retrograde civilian rule that fuels internal conflict, engenders the factionalization of public and national institutions, where sitting Governors are abducted; where illegal impeachments are contrived and prosecuted by less than ten […]
At last, the die is cast. The long-awaited 2015 presidential election that has elicited so much trepidation across the country is here. Next Saturday, March 28, we all go to the polls and all Nigerians […]
Surprisingly, I got my Permanent Voters Cards, PVC, perhaps the most coveted property in the land today, effortlessly. Thanks to the efficiency of very courteous young Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), officials, it did not […]
By the time we meet again on this page next Tuesday, the presidential election – dare we hope?–would have been won or lost The thrill of victory will be ringing harmoniously in one camp and […]
“B’Oyinbo nlo nlu, a su s’aga” [A fleeing expatriate defecates on his seat] — Yoruba saying Almost like yesterday, the 16 April 2011 presidential election. “It takes patience to get Goodluck,” punned a voter in […]
The chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Dr Davies Ikanya, has said that one of the reasons the deputy governor decamped to the PDP was his failure to realize his ambition of […]
For the first time since the return to civil rule in 1999, wives of the two frontline presidential candidates have been criss-crossing the country, canvassing for support for their husbands. The First Lady, Dame Patience […]
As we inch closer to the D-day of the Presidential election on Saturday I can only but hope that Nigerians will seize the opportunity of the ballot box to redirect the course of our history. […]
IT is only an insincere person that will say the Goodluck Jonathan government has failed. It is global knowledge that the administration has rebuilt the institutions on which a modern and prosperous Nigeria can […]
Barring another last-minute orchestration, the much anticipated 2015 presidential election will hold in four days. Presidential campaigns will officially stop on Thursday, bringing this unusual campaign season to a much needed end. As we embark […]
FOUR DAYS to what is obviously the bitterest, divisive,fierce, and in most part, lack of issue-based campaigns,everywhere you look across the country,there is tension.It is so because everything-the bad,the ugly,half-truths,lies,blackmail,mudslinging,high-profile defections,intimidation of opponents, are the […]
“Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.” – Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart By the close of the year 2008, it was only […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Monday, restrained the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government from deploying the military to supervise the coming general elections. The presiding Judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, in […]
Maverick politician and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku takes a peep into a possible post-election Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and concludes that the septuagenarian ex-military general may contend […]
It is great that terrorists have been pushed out of Baga, Bama and others but how does that translate into electoral advantage for Jonathan in places like Chibok where hundreds of families are still grieving […]
By OMONIYI SALAUDEEN The suit challenging the right of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 election is still subsisting in the court some weeks to the March 28 presidential poll. In this interview, […]
What is wrong is for Yoruba groups to confuse the demand of the Yoruba for restoration of federalism with the recommendations of the 2014 national conference convened by President Jonathan. With apology to my other […]
AFTER about four months of frenzied campaigns, we have just five days to the rescheduled presidential election 2015. I consider it necessary to make a few concluding remarks on the two major presidential candidates: President […]
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