he Conservative party’s 2019 manifesto promised to “end the blight of rough sleeping” by 2024; four years later the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported the biggest year-on-year percentage increase since 2015. According to […]

President Biden recently declared in Warsaw that Russia’s war against Ukraine is a test for America and the world. But waning public support for Ukraine aid means that a war that Russia openly, proudly, repeatedly […]

In the eyes of the people, Labour Party won this election, and there is no better way to reciprocate the mandate given to them by working for the people. This time, representations at the National […]

Until we are able to stand for ourselves, and calmly evaluate which systems of government is good for us, we will probably flounder all over the place and continue to toxify our society. Somehow, the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had assured the country of its readiness to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the Election Result Viewing Portal (IReV) in the build-up to last Saturday’s presidential […]

Nigerian election outcomes are all too easy to discern. Once one side starts crying too loudly know it has lost. On the basis of that simple test, the poor imitation of a three-year-old’s tantrums by […]

The only real surprise from last Saturday’s presidential election was Labour Party’s Peter Obi’s magical win in Lagos, and other parts of the country. Obi was definitely bound to make some statement on Nigeria’s political […]

Those whose understanding of Saturday’s presidential election is that the Labour Party played the “spoiler” for the Peoples Democratic Party miss the significance of the moment. As of now, the PDP is effectively dead and […]

February 24, 2023 marked exactly one year since the Russian invasion of its south western neighbour, Ukraine, with proactive Belarusian support. The Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, characterised it as a “special military operation” with the […]

I had two spells as a student at the University of Ilorin, abbreviated by us as ‘Unilorin’. True, our university started as a college under the University of Ibadan, (UI). We were in a hurry, […]

In the last instalment, I proposed to discuss the present-day arguments for the domiciliation of power in the north as well as the outcome of the February 25 elections. As I write the results of […]

A father-of-three has accused YouTube of gathering data on the viewing habits of up to five million British children under the age of 13. Duncan McCann, Head of Accountability at the 5Rights Foundation, says this […]