INEC and its role in Ondo governorship election
BY tomorrow, electorate in Ondo would have started casting their votes for a replacement for incumbent governor, Olusegun Mimiko whose eight year tenure is now drawing to a close. No doubt, the build...
View ArticleOndo poll: The march for a new governor
By Yinka Adeosun Following the decision of the Supreme Court and the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal, the coast is now clear for Saturday’s election in Ondo State. The Independent National...
View ArticleLiving in troubled times
WE are, indeed, living in troubled times. Nobody can say for sure if this is the perilous times that the Christian Holy Book predicted long time ago. Nigerians are really passing through a hellish...
View ArticleFG’s 500,000 jobs initiative
By Tayo Ogunbiyi A 2015 World Bank statistics indicate that 100 million Nigerians live in destitution. Recent data from the same body confirms Nigeria as one of the five poorest nations in the...
View ArticleHerdsmen attacks and protection of the victims (1)
By AGWU UKIWE OKALI The deadly attacks on various Nigerian communities in recent times, usually attributed to “Fulani herdsmen”, are without doubt one of the most serious and, at the same time,...
View ArticleThe decline in girl-child education
By Adenike Thomas According to a recent UNICEF data, in Nigeria, women and girls constitute 60% of the illiterate population. Similarly, a 2005 UNICEF records also showed that 4.7million Nigerian...
View ArticleCurtailing street begging in Lagos
By Dennis Ezeri Unarguably, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation with more than 170 million people out of which Lagos State boasts of 20 million inhabitants, thus making the City the nation’s...
View ArticleSeek God, conquer ‘change’
NIGERIA and its hapless citizens have reached their wit’s end in the current interminable, circuitous and “one-chance” rigmarole! The last proposition is to seek God diligently—not slothfully. Before...
View ArticleHerdsmen attacks and protection of the victims (2)
By AGWU UKIWE OKALI ONE can, in fact, envisage a case of a very small indigenous population surviving on subsistence farming on ancestral land that is repeatedly attacked by herdsmen, killing their...
View ArticleTribute to Fidel Castro
By Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola “DIed in beauty, like a rose blown from its parent stem” –Charles Doyne Sillery At last the curtain fell on the exemplary life of the Commandante of The Army of the oppressed...
View ArticleWhy celebrate Efuru @ 50?
By Ikeogu Oke THE German playwright, Bertolt Brecht, notably declared: “Unhappy the land in need of heroes.” And too much emphasis cannot be laid on the role of heroes in shaping the destiny of...
View ArticleProblems that may mar Rivers rerun
MANY TIMES in this column, I have had cause to critique the performance of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), especially since the ascent of Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu as Chairman. We must...
View ArticleThe Iynch mob and failure of state institutions
By Paul John THE Fund for Peace, a Washington D.C. based non-profit, non-governmental research and educational institution, in its 12th annual Fragile States Index (FSI) released on June 29, 2016...
View ArticleAba’s renewal and smart power
By C. Don Adinuba President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policy may not be generally considered wonderful, but the commitment to a substantial increase in the domestic content in the real sector of the...
View ArticleNigeria’s killing fields
By Kenechukwu Obiezu Renowned international human rights watchdog, Amnesty International`s recently released report damningly finding that Nigeria’s security agencies had systematically and...
View ArticleNigerians and the craze for birth tourism
By Sylvester Sunday Orji Malala Yousafzai said” I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country, it is like my mother and I love it dearly. Even if it’s people hate me, I will still love it .”...
View ArticleRevitalising PHCs in Nigeria
By Emejuiwe Victor One of the major policy thrusts of the Federal Government is to revitalize the 10,000 moribund PHCs in each of the 9,423 wards in the 774 local governments in Nigeria. The...
View ArticleCivilization in stark conflict with inheritance rights in Igboland
WHEN I was growing up, I never thought I would lose any of my parents. In fact, I was thinking that we would live together forever. Thus, the last thing on my mind at that time was death of any of them...
View ArticleInterrogating Buhari’s leadership style
By Tochukwu Ezukanma IN those tense and terrifying days leading up to the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari was ridiculed by his detractors, for having already been rejected three times by...
View ArticleFidel Castro, the immortal
Africa is not conflicted over Fidel Castro, screamed a headline this week, on the world’s reaction to the transition to eternity of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. That is probably the understatement of the...
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