Nnaji: Fighting poverty through the legislature with ICT
Egbo Mon Charles Writing on Ethnicity and Stolen Opportunities in Public Service: Anti-corruption, Where is thy Reach and Victory?, Prof. Kenneth Amaeshi lamented that “Corruption goes beyond stealing...
View ArticleThe sequence of 2019 elections
The National Assembly’s Conference Committee on the Amendment of the Electoral Act has completed its work on the order of 2019 general elections and has approved that the presidential election would be...
View ArticleMystery snake and the nation’s comedy of errors
Tayo Ogunbiyi The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and...
View ArticleElection amendment must stay
When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the schedule for the 2019 elections last year, I had few misgivings concerning the timetable. The presidential and National Assembly...
View ArticleUgwuanyi’s visionary leadership
The political consciousness of Nigerians has unarguably increased since 1999 when the present political dispensation came into force. This consciousness may be traceable to increasing access to...
View ArticleLetter to Defence Minister: If it’s not too late…(1)
Felix Oboagwina IN view of your coming appointment with the Nigerian Senate and as you sit atop the country’s security architecture, I feel this compelling need to address this letter to you. I...
View ArticleWike’s troubling view on proliferation of political parties
Aaron Ossai THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently raised the alarm that the number of registered political parties in Nigeria had ballooned to 68. Its concerns bordered on the...
View ArticleThe last hug
Ismail Omipidan Death, that five letter word, is inevitable. When it calls…, nothing, just nothing can stop it. Otherwise, my mother’s death could have been stopped. After all, she had recovered,...
View ArticleFulani herdsmen, farmers and the rest of us In 2001, the Lagos State...
ADEMOLA ORUNBON IN 418 BC, Herodotus, the Greek Philosopher who is known as the “father of history”, said “a man who does not know anything about the events that took place before he/she was born will...
View ArticleLetter to Defence Minister: If it’s not too late…(2)
FELIX OBOAGWINA State’s Right to Make Laws: Partly, you blamed these killings on the anti-grazing laws. Let us assume, without necessarily agreeing, that the states did provoke these attacks through...
View ArticleSpecial courts for corruption and sexual offences
Adekunbi Bakare Across the globe, especially in the developed world, the idea of specialized courts has proven to have enhanced the performances of their judicial processes and this has made these...
View ArticleFrom Big Brother Naija to moral rectitude
Edidiong Esara I dare not watch that thing called Big Brother Naija. It is Vanity Fair extravaganza. Textual snippets of the show make it obvious that the viewership is not worth my while. Neither will...
View ArticleBanters in Lagos, poverty and disease in Niger Delta
Jerome-Mario Utomi The Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, venue of the meeting was lavishly decorated to impress,...
View ArticleState of the nation and 2019 election
Nze Nwabueze Akabogu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently rolled out its timetable for the forthcoming general election scheduled for February 2019 amid ominous signs of a...
View ArticleSustaining infrastructure renewal in Lagos
Osebumere Odia It is pretty obvious now, that there is a deliberate massive infrastructure renewal drive across Lagos. What may not be so obvious are the deeper implications of this drive, which we...
View ArticleThe South and Nigeria’s democracy
Skc Ogbonnia THE handshake across the Niger summit has come and gone. Though the event was fraught with strategic shortfalls, the move ought to be encouraged by all, because disunity in Southern...
View ArticleAppreciating the cash snake
Ikeogu Oke IT should not surprise us. That a snake would swallow. Cash in a country so rich. It sought use for money. Even animals in a zoo Know the use of money. That it builds and keeps their cages,...
View ArticleKaduna’s bizzarre politics
There is every reason to believe that all is not well with our nascent democracy and by extension our party politics. The quarrels over 2019 election among the various politicians and stakeholders...
View ArticleThe transformation of Nigerian airports
Gregory Imoh By March 2018, Saleh Dunoma would have spent four years as Managing Director/CEO of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). His appointment came following widespread...
View ArticleHarrowing experience on Lagos roads
THE present governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode is someone I greatly admire. Like I have always said, he is a governor in a hurry- in a hurry to change the landscape of Lagos with commendable...
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