Insulating traditional rulers from partisan politics
Bukar Usman SINCE independence, Nigeria has conducted elections under different scenarios with the hope of improving on past electoral processes and procedures. We have had elections conducted under...
View ArticleNASS leadership as APC’s sword of Damocles
Sufuyan Ojeifo A feeling of de javu in the Nigerian political milieu seems to flow from the Marxian anecdote that “History repeats itself, the first as tragedy and then as farce.” Ahead of constitution...
View ArticleBloodshed in elections
At the end of last Saturday’s supplementary polls, it has become apt to intervene on this forum on the bloodletting, not in the sense of melee, but outright bloodshed, that characterised the...
View ArticleCelebrating Asiwaju Tinubu at 67
Akintola Benson Oke “A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and...
View ArticleCyclone in Africa: Going to Afghanistan
Banji Ojewale IN nineteen eighty four, when we all stood in awe of Decree Four, to differ from officialdom as represented by Nigeria’s military junta headed by MuhammaduBuhari was a perilous path to...
View ArticleIta-Faji episode and imperative of blood donation
Tayo Ogunbiyi RECENT tragic incidence of building collapse at Ita Faaji, Lagos Island, has once again brought to fore the need to sensitize Nigerians on the essence of blood of donation. One of the...
View ArticleExpect more judicial volcanoes
PRIOR to the commencement of the 2019 election season, Nigerians had thought that the poll will profit from the enduring lessons of the 2015 exercise. They also believed that this year’s poll will be...
View ArticleSegun Oni vs Fayemi: The legal debacle over ‘employee’
Otunba Ben Oguntuase The justices at the Court of Appeal, in their judgement on February 12, 2019, in the Segun Oni vs Fayemi eligibility case, said: “The Chambers Dictionary defines the noun employee...
View ArticleAddressing decline of reading culture in Nigeria
Kehinde Akinfenwa NIGERIA has been rated by the World Culture Score Index as one of the countries in the world with the lowest reading culture, while available statistics from National Commission for...
View ArticleImo State: Emeka Ihedioha arrives
THIS intervention was made sometime in 2016. It is an indispensable template for the messianic Governor-elect of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, hence the encore. Penultimate Thursday I discussed...
View ArticleBrexit and Britain’s chaotic exit
Nze Nwabueze Akabogu THE beleaguered British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered yet another humiliating defeat in Parliament (House of Commons) on Tuesday 12th March, 2019 after her “new Brexit deal”...
View ArticleRevolutionalisng Nigeria’s MSMES through renewable energy
Akunna Sophia Ofili WITH the evolving changes emanating from climate and environmental issues in all parts of the world, man has been saddled with the responsibility of finding lasting solutions to...
View ArticleExit of Nigeria’s literary greats
Chiedu Uche Okoye Do millions of Nigerians with religious bent of mind pause to ponder on their mortality? Here, the issue of thanatology is considered to be taboo among us. We dread death. That’s why...
View ArticleUgwuanyi’s electoral victory and more works
Samson Ezea The 2019 elections are over. Winners and losers have celebrated their victories and lamented their losses. Enugu State Governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who was overwhelmingly reelected...
View ArticleTambuwal’s victory and matters arising
In politics there’s always this ringing counsel to withhold the final cheer until the last vote is counted. It is so because, very often, politics doesn’t favour subtlety. No place in the recent...
View ArticleFresh boost for informal sector
Tayo Ogunbiyi Economists and experts have defined the informal sector as, “the part of an economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government, the activities of the informal sector...
View ArticleTime has changed common hospitality
Dennis Walter Smith The grind of our daily walk for survival in a chaotic and uncertain times, can insult our thinking and perspectives on the fruitfulness of contagious human synergy. Today’s societal...
View ArticleJustice for Innoson
Chukwudi Enekwechi IT has been a long and tortuous journey for Nigeria’s first indigenous automobile manufacturer, Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Company Ltd, to seek and obtain justice in their...
View ArticleOyo: Deconstructing Ajimobi’s legacies
For many Nigerians who are not very familiar with the politics and recent happenings in Oyo State, it is very easy to regard the defeat of the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) in...
View ArticleNSA and the future of Digital Switch Over
Hamid Hendrix IT was a pleasant surprise indeed that the seemingly hopeless situation of the Digital Switch Over (DSO) implementation, suspended in a limbo of controversial litigation and inexplicable...
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