Ugly events in Ekiti State yesterday that led to the attack on Governor Fayemi convoy, the killing of an APC supporter, vehicles vandalized, many injured and citizens tear gassed portend grave danger ahead of June 21Governorship Elections in that state. A normal tradition in APC family of sweeping the footprints of the invaders from Abuja […]
By Obinna Akukwe The new Emir of Kano, SANUSI Lamido Sanusi had always displayed exceptional frankness in the defense of his people in contrast to Igbo leaders who show extreme timidity when it comes to defending Igbo interests. Below is a write up I penned in April 2012, widely published and drawing flaks from most […]
I declared for the All Progressives Congress in June last year in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State well before the party was registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission. I formally joined the party, amidst great fanfare, on February 7, 2014 in my hometown Ile-Ife and I registered my membership with the party on that day. […]
By Tajudeen Balogun Everywhere in the world, political communication involves processing, coordinating, controlling and disseminating information about the government or political parties’ activities, policies, plans, programmes as well as agenda either within a confined setting or in an open society – public. Significantly, such messages are packaged in a manner that guide, educate, enlighten and […]
One of the campaign promises of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is free education at all levels if voted into power by the Nigerian people. Of course, this campaign mantra is catchy and will in no doubt attract many voters for the party but with the latest development at the Lagos State University, LASU, school […]
Never mind the barefaced denial from Dr. Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman that the Commander-In-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan, did not offer the Islamist group, Boko Haram, amnesty. On democracy day, we heard the speech of the Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Boni Haruna, loud and clear, and should anyone be in doubt, here are his words, […]
Greeting. I was astounded when I saw your picture at the beginning of the national conference, where you are a delegate. I was distressed to the marrow. I was thinking of what has happened to the once glowing Dora. You …were a woman whose beauty was the envy of any man. Many entreaties were made […]
President Yoweni Museveni attended the grand finale rally for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) woman flag bearer, Mrs Rebecca Nalwanga at Kalanga in Uganda last week. In condemning the Opposition in Uganda the President said that “some people have turned politics to a game of lies and un-seriousness”. In his characteristic manner, President Museveni took […]
By Abba Adakole The Janjaweed tendencies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) appears not to be knowing any bounds these days with the aspersion cast on Yoruba traditional rulers by none other than the leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who described a majority of them as “useless.” If Tinubu, who styles himself as […]
By Uche Nwosu It was John Quincy Adams who posited “to furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. According to him, education prolongs life and enlarges the sphere of existence”. This, without a doubt, is the framework on which the present Abia government under the leadership […]
By Femi Fani-kayode “If they ever tell my story let them say I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the Winter wheat but these names will never die… let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses…let them say I lived in the time of Achilles”- the Iliad, Homer. […]
-Uwa Eghomeka There appears to be a growing trend in this country. As I reflect on the last few weeks in our nation’s history, something about it seems hauntingly familiar, and it’s not merely the apparent unity of the Nigerian people in the face of the heinous kidnapping of our Chibok girls, or the involvement […]
The rot in the judiciary appears to be worsening by the day. As a sacred institution that is saddled with the administration of justice, all efforts should be deployed to ensure that the canker-worm called corruption tearing the soul of this important arm of government is uprooted without further delay. Judicial corruption could be a […]
Bamidele Aturu The cancellation of the presidential visit to Chibok on any ground whatsoever is an abandonment of the unwritten responsibilities of the office of the President. It is now clear that the President and his aides do not understand the scope of his presidential responsibilities and this is very scary. The President, for God’s […]
By Ogbonna V Ogbonna Esq Basically, “Lex non deficere potest in justitia exhibenda”, is a Latin legal maxim which implies that the law cannot fail in dispensing justice. It is expected that the primary aim of any adjudicating process ought to be geared towards occasioning a harmonious marriage between judgment and justice. Consequently to achieve […]
By Uzodinma Nwaogbe The abduction of about 200 Government Girls Secondary School students last month by the Boko Haram insurgents has shown that our problem is not in religion, nor in ethnic leaning but on the leadership and management of this country. There is no part, religious group in this country that is not praying, […]
By Eric Ojo, Abuja Benjamin Ubiri comes away hardly ruffled talking about a striking irony of Abuja. Behind the allure of expansive roads and rising buildings that make the Nigerian capital Africa’s most expensive and one of the world’s fastest growing, he admits, several poor communities live without toilets. “It’s bad, but not terrible,” Mr. […]
By Kola Ibrahim The kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls in Chibok town some three weeks ago has drawn widespread global opprobrium. Instinctively, Nigerians and people globally, pricked by human feeling, have seen the latest barbaric onslaught on poor Nigerians by the murderous Boko Haram terrorists, as an assault on human dignity and safety. To most […]
On 4th May 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: “I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the age of nine. You are all in danger. I am the one who captured all those girls and will […]
By Theophilus Ilevbare The ongoing national conference has been fraught with some very controversial issues one of which is the agitation for control of resources by the delegates from South-South Nigeria pitching them against their Northern compatriots. If the last resource control debate at the confab had lasted for 30 more minutes, insults and fisticuff […]
