Nigeria and Congo: Two of a kind
George Awuru The Democratic republic of Congo main opposition leader, Martin Fayulu, is currently urging his supporters to embrace what he calls “peaceful resistance”. He believes rival candidate,...
View ArticleINEC and unending poll postponement
Carl Umegboro Inarguably, February 16, 2019 has become a date Nigerians may never forget in their calendars. It was indeed an exceptionally ‘inactive’ Saturday in history; without any wedding...
View ArticlePostponement of presidential poll
The hope of many Nigerians that the presidential election would be concluded and done away with last weekend was dashed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Transportation in Lagos and Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Solution
A simple observation will show that transportation challenges develop alongside population explosion in most mega cities of the world. New Delhi – a megacity in India tripled the number of its buses...
View ArticleThe problem with INEC’s postponement of election
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano Top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are now literally running helter-skelter to television stations trying to do what in media parlance is called...
View ArticleThe 2019 election and nagging questions
Jerome-Mario Utomi For close to two decades, Nigerians’ have lived in a frightening situation called democracy. And under this superficial arrangement, the masses lost sight of the real and lasting...
View Article2019 and Imo gubernatorial election
Sullivan Odumegwu This submission will wax mostly technical as it draws on raw data to assess the electoral chances of the major candidates for the 2019 Imo State governorship election. Empirical...
View ArticleRevisiting Diaspora voting rights
At cusp of the 2019 elections, the issue of Diaspora voting rights becomes heavier on people’s mind, especially when Nigerian-Americans residing in Nigeria participated in voting in the recently...
View ArticleTranslating Africa into English
Following our essay last week, https://www.sunnewsonline.com/for-your-urgent-attention-generals-ebitu-ukiwe-azubuike-ihejirika-et-al/, readers asked of other translations. For instance, is okanmuta an...
View ArticleReal reasons Nigerians must reject PDP
Olusegun Dada Many Nigerians were still asleep when the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, went on national TV to make the shocking announcement...
View ArticleBuhari doesn’t need to rig election as he’s likely going to win
Waheed Alabede Judging by the news making the rounds, one might begin to suspect that some forces are hard at work to derail the 2019 elections. It seems they are bent on taking advantage of President...
View ArticleYes Oshiomhole, no Mr. President
Sufuyan Ojeifo In Monday’s opening ceremony of the caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), broadcast live from the party’s national secretariat, Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari reacted...
View ArticleBuhari’s ‘ruthless’ order on ballot box snatchers
Oludayo Tade Post colonial realities in Nigeria and the ascendancy and sustenance of political merchants in corridors of power have sustained the reproduction of similar faults and errors. In the area...
View ArticlePower sector reforms and the economy
Jacobson Kay Obi Nigerians believe that getting the nation’s power sector working in terms efficient generation and distribution of electricity is one sure way to rejig the nation’s economy. Their...
View ArticleLet the election be credible
Nigerians might have overcome the anxiety and trauma caused them by the sudden shifting of the February 16 polls by the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) a few hours before the...
View ArticleSanwo-Olu: Towards a cleaner Lagos
Babatunde Hodewu That Lagos State has lost the cleanliness that came with the dawn of democracy in 1999, is an understatement. The hitherto friendly sights have now been lost to heaps of refuse across...
View ArticleOn Buhari’s warning against election ballot box snatching
Prof. Itse Sagay, San. The controversy arising from the President’s warning that anyone snatching ballot boxes or violently disrupting the coming elections (23rd February 2019 and 9th March 2019) may...
View ArticleSukuk: Driving national fund for development
Inwalomhe Donald The State of Osun in southwestern Nigeria raised the first sukuk bond in Nigeria worth ten billion naira (some $62 million) from the capital market to fund educational development....
View ArticleWhy the elections must be peaceful
Abu I. Michael Hopefully, elections for the Presidential/National Assembly seats and the Governorship/State Houses of Assembly alongside the FCT Area Council positions will hold correspondingly on...
View ArticleLagos and budget development
Rasak Musbau Budget is an important policy document of government that details how government allocates resources among various competing needs such as national defense, public safety, infrastructure,...
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