Winning elections, the strategy that works
Kenneth Adejumoh For every given task, there is always a strategy to achieve the desired results. In planning, you may have more than one strategy which could be labelled as ‘Plan-A’ and ‘Plan-B’ or...
View ArticleAbsence of leadership with ideology in Nigeria
Nigeria has always been plagued with leadership devoid ideology as it swims in the ocean of selfish leadership. So in every election, the gong for credible leadership dings interminably and more loudly...
View ArticleRemembering Bola Ige
Abiodun Komolafe ETHNO-RELIGIOUS leanings or socio-political ideology notwithstanding, it is almost improbable for any society to underestimate the contributions of some people to the emancipation of...
View ArticleThe Osun governorship election
Sola Fasure SINCE the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Gboyega Oyetola won the Osun governorship election of September 22 and 27 last year, the false impression has been given by the losing PDP and...
View ArticleWomen and the electoral process
Temilade Aruya Political consciousness is a state of political alertness as well as a form of empowerment that adequately equips the citizenry to make politically sound judgments and informed...
View ArticleNigerians: Go and vote
After months of intense campaigns spiced with poetic promises that half will not be fulfilled by the over 70 presidential candidates that will contest tomorrow’s presidential poll, it is now the turn...
View ArticleHow Peter Obi fared in Atiku’s grassroots campaign
I am an avid consumer of Twitter and it was not long ago, when people all over Twitter Nigeria, bickered on how the PDP is not a good-enough opposition to challenge the ruling APC. Now, the odds have...
View ArticleWomen and the fight for better Nigeria
Bukky Osunyikanmi Last Boxing Day, my family hosted some loved ones. Cousins, in-laws, friends and colleagues visited us on that day. Some came with their children. Even toddlers were among the...
View ArticleOlayinka: Three years of managing recession in UI
Sunday Saanu When he made up his mind to vie for the position of Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan (UI), Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka certainly did not envisage that, Nigeria, which depended solely...
View ArticleThe imperatives of peaceful elections
Dr Titus K. Oyeyemi, JP Everywhere around the world, keen observers of electioneering processes would hold the notion that most elections never were peaceful and never would be peaceful. A thorough...
View ArticleOil firms and disasters in the Niger Delta
Sam Nwokoro The Rains are here again in the upland western Atlantic belt like Lagos. Soon, just in a space of few weeks now, the early rains of the year will veer towards the inland coastal areas,...
View ArticleDrug abuse and Nigeria’s leadership question
Fred W. Opara “What we must do for our young people is challenge them to put hope in their brains rather than dope in their veins. What difference does it make whether the doors swing wide open if our...
View ArticleBola Tinubu defect to PDP? Never! (1)
Last week, a vicious tale went viral in the much-abused social media that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had defected to the vanishing Peoples...
View ArticleWhen tomorrow comes
Ayo Oyoze Baje Let me begin with these pertinent questions: Why do some people struggle for political power, only to use it as an instrument of oppression against their kinsmen and fellow countrymen?...
View Article‘Postponement of election ridicules Nigeria before international community’
Brown Chimezie The Eze Ndigbo Mekong River Asia, HRH Amb.Uzochukwu Jerome Ezeneche Eze nwatagwuoshimiri has condemned the postponement of General election by Independent Electoral Commission (INEC)...
View ArticleINEC and two million university students
Jerome-Mario Utomi With just a few days to the planned general election in the country, it will be appropriate to acknowledge two remarkable developments. First and very fundamental, is the relentless...
View ArticleWill 2019 elections still hold?
Bidwell Nsofor The altercations, verbal punches and counter attacks by newspaper free readers in my neighborhood have continued to excite me beyond measure. Believe it or not, these are great actors...
View ArticleHigh costs of conducting elections in Nigeria
Ayo Oyoze Baje The ever spiraling costs of conducting free, fair, peaceful and credible elections here in Nigeria, that would be acceptable to all the stakeholders, should be a source of deep concern...
View ArticleFeb 23: Can we trust INEC again?
An electoral umpire’s authority comes not only from the legal framework that spells out its duties but also from the public belief and confidence in the ability of the man at the helm to make the right...
View Article2019 Elections: Which way Nigeria?
Promise Adiele Sunny Okosun, by every creative and aesthetic standard, is one of the greatest musicians to emerge from Nigeria. Born in 1947, Okosun developed a brand of music which encompasses rock,...
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