Two important points need to be made at the outset. One, no one disagrees with President Buhari’s sworn determination to rid this country of the vermin we know as corruption. We have more or […]
President Buhari apparently perceives opposition to be synonymous to corruption and doesn’t draw a distinct line between independent national institutions of state and partisan matters. In Nigeria, important institutions of state have been reduced to […]
In a couple of weeks Nigeria will begin another round of general elections. This coming round of the four-yearly ritual, re-started by Nigeria’s ruling class in 1999 to herald the Fourth Republic, will be different […]
Nigerians were happy when the news reached them last week that Baga, in Kukawa Local Government of Borno State, was recaptured by the Special Forces of the Nigerian Army, who were said to have […]
An estimated 25,685 babies (was supposedly) born in Nigeria on New Year’s Day, according to UNICEF, with Nigerian babies making up 6.5 percent of the estimated 395,072 babies born on New Year’s Day globally. […]
Our politicians are past masters at weaving conspiracy theories. These theories are fuelled by fear and desperation. The fear of losing an election and the desperation to win. When they are assailed by these monstrous […]
On Wednesday, January 2, 2019, as reported by many national dailies, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), through a statement issued by its founder and director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, rejected Reverend Mathew Hassan Kukah’s initiative to train […]
Much like his nearly four-year presidency has divided Nigerians sharply along ethno-geographic and religious fault lines, President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid has proved no less divisive. From a legacy of a fractured country, the […]
Muslims of Northern Nigeria are a wonderful people. For long we have been singing Islam and using it whenever it is to our advantage. Our Islamic scholars use their positions to get close to people […]
The 2019 Appropriation Bill is replete with clusters of unattainable targets ranging from revenue projections to inflation and gross domestic product (GDP) growth targets. Architects of the Appropriation Bill believe that the economy would grow […]
Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, who died on December 28, 2018 at the age of 93, was one of the most humble, unassuming and experienced leaders Nigeria ever had. Brought up in the Westminster parliamentary […]
Plateau State Governor, Rt. Hon. Dr. Simon Bako Lalong, has officially flagged off his campaign for re-election ahead of the 2019 general polls. The event which witnessed an unprecedented turnout in the history of electioneering […]
It is the paradox of less in the midst of more. Let us begin with the statistics. We have, at least as of this writing, 165 universities distributed as follows: federal, 43; states, 47 and […]
Over three years into the Muhammadu Buhari administration, its failure to effectively tackle corruption, as highly anticipated by the Nigerian people is premised on certain fundamentals. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of Nigeria’s peculiar corruption […]
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Living to tell the Tale) The road to Shagari village from […]
The major problem of the 2019 Appropriation Bill is revenue. The architects of the budget proposal have a clear picture of where to channel the nation’s resources into. But the money is simply not there. […]
So it’s some 24hours into 2019, Nigerians would be going to the polls, to imagine that only 19 years ago, her democracy was only a year old. Between a Buhari and an Atiku presidency I […]
Nigeria is in a state of war but it looks as if we are taking things lightly. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines state of war as (1) a. state of actual armed hostilities regardless of […]
You do not need empirical evidence backed up by research to accept that ours is the most litigious electoral process in the world. If you doubt me, look into the court dockets and you would […]
I watched a part of the televised conversation between the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and host of the political programme, “Roadmap 2019”, Ladi Akeredolu-Ale on Channels Television in the night of Monday, December […]
Even before the commencement of legislative debates, Nigeria’s 2019 Appropriation Bill has sailed into unprecedented storm. The infantile rowdiness of members of the National Assembly during the president’s presentation on December 18 pales into insignificance […]
In line with the New airports’ terminals and the beauty of continuum in governance popular saying that government is continuum, the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari had within the last three and half years […]
The Boko Haram insurgents, once touted as ‘technically defeated’ by no other than President Muhammadu Buhari, are now technically resurging and giving a bloody nose to our soldiers, killing them and civilians in droves, […]
“Kowa ya dade yaga dadau”. – Hausa (Whoever lives long, will see wonders). Them belly full, but we hungry A hungry mob is a angry mob A rain will fall, but the dirt […]
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has in line with its mandate to promote conflict resolution and conflict prevention worldwide conducted a research on the forthcoming general election in Nigeria with a view to […]
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