When elections dehumanise Africans
Victor C. Ariole Africa is yet to present a brand on leadership and Nigeria must do that for Africa. Africa, in general, has problems in believing in elections as most of the people still see...
View ArticleElectoral fraud and collective effort to save Nigerian democracy
Abbas Abubakar Umar A few days to the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC as part of it responsibility of protecting the Nigerian society from all...
View ArticleHow not to treat youth corps members
Ayo Oyoze Baje The graphic pictures of the pitiable plight of several members of the National Youth Service Corps(NYSC) sleeping on bare floor, on the eve of the postponed Presidential and National...
View ArticleRemedying the power sector for service delivery
Carl Umegboro An intellectual piece titled ‘Remedying the power sector for service delivery’ authored by Ani Nkemjika Nnenne which was published in various national dailies recently refers. I...
View ArticleThe attitude of victory and defeat
Promise Adiele I have, both on this column and in my scholarly engagements, interrogated the infinite juxtaposition of opposites and their inexorable unity. When I decide to walk away from the...
View ArticleWhy our votes must count
Sunday Onyemachi Eze ERUDITE Professor, poet and world acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe was apt and right when he proclaimed long time ago that: leadership was the bane of the country’s...
View ArticleNew face of the 9th Senate
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano While we await the result of the presidential election from the nation’s chief returning officer, INEC boss, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, an overview of the National Assembly...
View ArticleIhedioha’s plan for Imo State
Cosmas Odoemena From a state known for intellectualism, industry and progress Imo State has become a state of buffoonery, mal-administration, and executive rascality. This has to change! As the...
View ArticleRevolution in Nigeria’s payroll software package
Haruna Adams In the past decade, the knowledge-driven economy has greatly evolved. At the heart of this economy is software development, an area holding great potential for struggling economies such as...
View ArticleNigerians must repudiate violence
Abu I. Michael It is with huge excitement that Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999. The military had governed the people for long after sacking the the 1st and 2nd Republics in 1966 and 1983...
View ArticleThe conduct of the presidential election
Emmanuel Onwubiko “The witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The nightmare dredged up from some deep, dark depths of primitive man’s...
View ArticleElection results: When Nigeria needs a Jonathan
Skc Ogbonnia The outright rejection of the results of the 2019 national election by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), even before the final votes were counted, is very discouraging. The action...
View ArticleThe state of emergency in education
“NEXT in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.” –James A. Garfield “It is in fact a part of the function of education to...
View ArticleBefore the governorship poll
After great apprehension that the worst will happen, the February 23 presidential poll has come and gone. But the aftermath will be with us for a very long time. The incumbent President Muhammadu...
View ArticleNdi Anambra and the coming guber poll
Uche Nworah It is clear for all to see that the government of Chief Willie Obiano, Governor of Anambra State has continued to toe the path of good governance that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi was...
View ArticleA Lagos polling unit conversation
Jerome-Mario Utomi Given my preceding accreditation as a Domestic Electoral Observer by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), I took an early trip on Saturday 23rd February to a...
View ArticleThe Indomitable Lion of Daura and whipped warlords
Oludayo Tade The struggle for the number one seat of Nigeria has now climaxed with the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari—The Indomitable Lion of Daura (TILD)– as re-elected for another four...
View ArticleIn Nigeria, knowledge is not power; power is power
Boladale Adekoya “Good morning everyone, we are sorry to announce that Dana flight 9J-351 Lagos to Abuja has been canceled,” an assistant manager of the airline who didn’t bother to look back after...
View ArticleNigeria’s diplomatic patriarch Ambassador Joe Iyalla (1928-2019) signs off
Godknows Boladei Igali, PhD Mentor and patriarch of Nigeria’s Diplomatic Service and leader of the pioneering squad of the country’s external relations, Ambassador Joe Tonye Fubara Iyalla signed off...
View ArticleThe need for electoral reforms
y Emmanuel Onwubiko A sudden but troubling pall of trepidation enveloped the Nigerian climate just before the conduct of the February 23rd 2019 presidential poll and immediately after the long delayed...
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