Opinions

South Africans went to the polls yesterday (May 8, 2019) in the country’s sixth democratic elections since 1994. Some say the elections were the country’s biggest since the end of White minority rule 25 years ago. The Apartheid system  of White minority rule, which became official state policy in 1948, crumbled after a long and […]

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, President Muhammadu Buhari would be sworn in for a second term on May 29, 2019. This second coming has been christened the Next Level, which was the theme of his second term campaign. Embedded in this Next Level mantra is the expectation of the huge majority of Nigerians that fitting consolidation […]

Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State, who rarely shies away from controversy or misses an opportunity to showcase his courage, recently, took a very bold step of abrogating the indigene-setter dichotomy in his state. Announcing the abrogation of the dichotomy in his official twitter handle on April 11, 2019, the Governor said: “In Kaduna State, […]

It is really not about whether Femi Gbajabiamila, the senior lawmaker from Lagos state and principal officer at the National Assembly, was recently endorsed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party that produced him. It is not also whether he has the backing of notable leaders of the party as being put up […]

Walter Onnoghen’s nearly 100-day suspense-packed thriller with the Code of Conduct Tribunal finally came to a conclusion on April 18 2019. He was found him guilty of not declaring some of his assets and removed as the Chief Judge of Nigeria. The tribunal also barred him from holding public office for ten years and recommended […]

Nigeria’s renascent democracy has been threatened by electoral irregularities and sundry abuses, but these absurdities assumed melodramatic proportions with the violence that marred the 2019 general elections where soldiers, police officers and armed thugs took over polling stations, assaulted  INEC staff, election observers, and journalists, even during supplementary polls that had to be conducted because […]

There is increasing public concern on the forced burden of the serial rape of tens of millions of bank customers’ accounts, with a multiplicity of charges which dove-tailed the CBN’s facilitation of the Cashless Policy and the related electronic settlement of transactions.Although E-banking may have triggered a higher velocity of cash flow, notwithstanding the inherent […]

In what many observers have derisively dismissed as a brazen show of megalomania, and a bad joke taken too far, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced Monday that its academy in Karu, Abuja will soon be certified as the first anti-corruption degree-awarding institution in Nigeria. EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade made this known in […]

“This is my last lap. I will try and work even harder than I have done. I assure you that I will not let you down. I pray that my best will be good enough,” Buhari said.  ‘I will try and work even harder’, says Buhari Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that he […]

I was contemplating on what to write this week when the news of the crash of an Ethiopian Airline flight popped in. As is usual with such tragic news, shock was the immediate reaction as such breaking news come with very sketchy details. Such news are scary developments that often remind of man’s helplessness with […]

The immortal former South African president, the late Nelson Mandela could not have captured the lofty expectation of all Africans better when he once said: “The world will not respect Africa until Nigeria earns that respect. The black people of the world need Nigeria to be great as a source of pride and confidence.” Mandela […]

Nigerians went to bed on Friday, 15th February, with solid determination to troop out in the morning of Saturday, 16th February to cast their votes for their preferred presidential and national assembly candidates. There was nothing to warn them that the date will be an anti-climax the next morning. INEC had restated its preparation and determination to […]