As Enugu guber poll ends in praise
Samson Ezea With the massive and overwhelming victory of Enugu State governor and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the just concluded governorship election, Rt. Hon....
View ArticleClosing the gender gap
Caleb Adebayo FROM the very moment the woman steps into the market, she is assaulted; hands grabbed, buttocks slapped, names called and whatever demeaning else you can think of. It’s the same thing...
View ArticleEquity and the incoming Imo administration
The 2019 election has come and gone with all its imperfections but to Imo people the outcome of the March 9 governorship election will remain with them for a very long time. There is no doubt that the...
View ArticleLadoja’s coalition and apc’s ‘peculiar mess’ in Oyo
Oludayo Tade The 2019 general elections have shown the growing evolution and sophistication of the Nigerian electorates. Despite obvious lapses and controversies and inconclusiveness in some states,...
View ArticleBetween election violence and the spoils of office
Banji Ojewale In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at the top. –Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American scientist and philosopher. Nigeria’s elections are always a period of...
View ArticleFrom voter apathy to boycott
Victor C. Ariole A sharply divided country can never run less acrimonious democracy Hence disaggregate the election process. –Dr. Dele Ashiru on 93.7/STV What a 2019 nightmarish March 9 elections....
View ArticleImperative for sovereign national conference (I)
Olawumi Ajaja Restructuring is a term which has become more and more widely canvassed in different parts of Nigeria in the past few years. The concept has been made nebulous by politicians who ascribe...
View Article2018 Ekiti APC primary election: Oni vs Fayemi: Who is an employee?
Dr Bayo Arowolaju On January 13, 2019, the Court of Appeal, Ado Ekiti division delivered its judgement on an eligibility case between Chief Olusegun Oni and Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Oni was challenging the...
View ArticlePreventing Nigeria from becoming a ‘failed nation’ (2)
Dan Mou The leadership went further to also control the electoral bodies to accomplish the task they did, by simply “awarding” the “votes” they wanted to the President of Venezuela, Maduro, and...
View ArticleEmefiele and the stakes at CBN
Sufuyan Ojeifo AS the central bank and apex monetary authority of the country, the major regulatory objectives of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as mirrored in the institution’s enabling Act are to...
View ArticleNigeria population and birth control
Kehinde Akinfenwa Indications have emerged that Nigeria faces imminent population explosion must the country fail to address the current prevailing growth rate. Currently ranks seventh in the list of...
View ArticleThe silent rage of air pollution in Nigeria
Kayode Ojewale Air is an important and vitalrequirement for life. Air sustains life, but it can also snuff outlife. With air one survives and lives; with air one could also die. So it all boils down to...
View ArticleOkowa’s victory powered by God’s divine hand
Nora Roberts I would like to thank the almighty God for the life of our dynamic governor, Sen. Dr Ifeanyi Okowa on your victory at the poll. I congratulate you on your impressive victory in the just...
View ArticleCelebrating Gov. Ugwuanyi at 55
Fifty-Five years today, precisely March 20, 1965, a bouncing baby was born into the modest and cultured family of Mr. David and Mrs. Veronica Ugwuanyi, of Ohom Orba in the present Udenu Local Council...
View ArticleForex restriction and the textile industry
AS the nation awaits the conclusion of the inconclusive/suspended elections across the country and the commencement of legal fireworks over the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, which the...
View ArticleAgriculture and the 2019 budget
Martins Eke The Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) of the current administration served as the basis for the development of the 2019 proposed budget for the agriculture sector and other sectors....
View ArticleThe place of legacy in a nation’s history
Bidwell Nsofor At last, Nigerians can briefly heave a sigh of relief, having scaled through the last lap of 2019 General Election. Although, the nightmares, violence and killings were unwelcome...
View ArticleTarget points for Buhari’s second term
Carl Umegboro “TO whom much is given, much is expected”is a universal maxim. The Bible in the third of the four canonical gospels; Luke 12:48 affirmed it. By Section 130 (1) and (2) of the 1999...
View ArticleCaught between rock and hard place
This is aptly a sad commentary! The place seems to be harder when one regurgitates all the uncertainties that would be imminent ensuing death. Well, Nigerian males in the Diaspora are now confronted...
View ArticleAdesanmi: The human oxymoron politicians must learn from
Banji Ojewale PROFESSOR Toyin Falola has put it most concisely: Pius Adesanmi is the man who leaves and lives. He argues that although Adesanmi is leaving the scene, still he lives. He’s gone, but he’s...
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