A House Of Assembly Built On Shaky Grounds
Once a bad political precedent has been set Nigeria, it is bound to happen again and again until it surprises no one and all the tricks that make it possible…
Once a bad political precedent has been set Nigeria, it is bound to happen again and again until it surprises no one and all the tricks that make it possible…
Sometime ago I heard a story of a Nigerian woman who had gone to the American Embassy in Abuja for a non-immigrant US visa. During the interview, the consular officer…
“China and Indonesia succeeded under authoritarian regimes. India succeeded in a democratic setting. We can do it.” President Muhammadu Buhari on June 12, 2019. Expectations were set high for June…
Never known to be in the habit of turning the proverbial other cheek, it is a big puzzle that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo chose to absorb a sucker punch of volcanic…
Much to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s dismay, the ruling APC is on the verge of stamping its mark on all three arms of government. The former president’s grouse is that the…
If it had been news about the former sports minister who had defiantly sat on $150,000 mistakenly paid into the ministry’s account by the IAAF, I might have found it…
A sweeping fear of insecurity has descended upon Nigeria like haze in the harmattan. Not since the Biafran Civil War of 1967-1970 has the nation been gripped by such pervading…
It’s a tradition now. Every festive period or when a state governor is in a good mood, he releases a number of prisoners from incarceration. Usually, there is no real…
Ours is a broken humanity. And except for the diehard ostriches among us, this brokenness can no longer be glossed over. However, nothing brought the message of this brokenness home…
Even though the attention of the world was focused on the role of the media in elections and democracy on the World Press Freedom Day, the shadow of last year’s…