Election in Nigeria is a battle of fists rather than a game of wits. The nation has gotten almost nothing right since independence and still cannot conduct free, fair and credible elections. The insatiable thirst […]
Thanks to Reno Omokri I can remember a school song and thank my English teachers:Ọrẹ mi mo ti gboyinbo kan Ko sẹni to le tumọ rẹ Tiṣa nikan lo le tumọ rẹ IMPOSSIBILICAN’T!!! (Sung to […]
The involvement of young school children in the recent ‘Ita Faji’ building collapse has understandably elicited widespread public comments in many quarters. Naturally, blames have equally been fairly apportioned in some cases. The avoidable tragedy […]
I was ruminating on the death of democracy which the recently concluded elections in Nigeria represent when the sad news on Sunday came to me from Bola Akanbi that my friend and brother, Professor Pius […]
The troubling questions about Nigeria came with the formation of Nigeria in 1914 by British agent Lord Lugard. British trading concerns in the coastal and hinterland regions of what now constitute Nigeria started with commercial, […]
Nigeria has dropped from second to the fourth country worst hit by the Human Immuno Virus (HIV) epidemic in the world, as the results from Nigeria HIV/ AIDs Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), shows that […]
The race for presidency of the 9th senate, to be inaugurated in June, has already started. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has secured 60 of the 95 seats announced so far, with the winners of […]
Before the vote counters and returning officers complete their job this week, it is important for us to note that the outcome of the presidential election held yesterday may not bring about the change we […]
It was early in the morning of Saturday, 16th February, 2019, I learnt that the Nigerian general elections have been postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the leadership of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. […]
Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka, who is the convener of the Citizens’ Forum, in this piece titled: “Trivialise corruption, neutralise justice”, argues that the absence of justice in a society makes its citizens resort to […]
The European Union (EU) says it has taken note of the threat of Nasir el-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, that foreigners who interfere with the 2019 elections would return to their countries with “body Bags”. […]
In a situation that could easily inspire a Naija comedy punch line, soldiers in Australia are busy delivering sandbags to homes in order to “clean their crocodile-induced tears”. In Nigeria, it is the other way […]
Nigerians are seriously concerned about the entrenched culture of corruption and impunity in the country. Therefore, it beholds on the National Judicial Council to ensure justice is not just done but seen to be done […]
It’s an indisputable fact that the purpose of law in any society is to ensure societal stability and enhance the course of justice, thus in the quest for the purpose of law, there existed for […]
Privilege is defined as a ‘special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group”. In a sense it is the power to imagine, to say and to do whatever […]
Were Nigeria a human being, she would invariably come down with an acute case of hypertension every four years. Around the time of the general elections, that is. Of course, she would have minor cases […]
Whenever the pendulum of discourse swings to politics and another four years’ fate yet decided, one should rather abstain from throwing the dice to a labyrinth, for it is crystal-clear the spider-tangle on the face […]
One thing that has prevented Nigeria’s industry from growing and getting stabilised is the grossly inadequate, dilapidated, and dysfunctional inventory of infrastructure that successive governments do not seem to know how to fix. And so […]
nadedokun@gmail.com The forthcoming general election in Nigeria is significant in a variety of ways but this intervention will address only two of them. First off, the 2019 elections will produce the fifth President in the […]
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