Who truly thinks that anything is going to change in the political space now that we have the “Not Too Young To Run Act”? I don’t think so because in Nigeria the more things change, the more they remain the…
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Saraki and his Survival Politics
As entrenched in advanced democracies all over the world and as stipulated in the constitution of Nigeria, the National Assembly’s roles in the democratic space is mainly to legislate for good governance, peace and welfare of the people while also…
Biafra, Buhari and His ‘Soft’ Civil War –Femi Fani-Kayode
History teaches us that there is only one thing that is more painful to the victims of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide than the act itself and that is the tacit denial by its orchestrators and perpetrators that it…
Movements of Nigeria’s ruling class- Edwin Madunagu
To appreciate, more fully, the current wave of political realignments in Nigeria and be able to make informed projections, we may need to go back to the Nigerian Civil War of (1967- 1970) and the long preparation for the Second…
Arresting the drift in the APC
With the presidential election scheduled for the February 2019, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is hoping to retain the seat with President Muhammadu Buhari re-elected for a second term. That is the minimum expectation of the APC. In 2015,…
TIME FOR YOUTHS IN NIGERIA’S LEADERSHIP
The promise of President Muhammadu Buhari during his Democracy day speech on May 29, 2018 to sign the “Not too Young to Run Bill” into law to give opportunities to Nigerian youths to participate in politics and governance has sparked…
Peace Corps: The drama of a failed Bill
The Nigeria Peace Corps had, over the years, been in existence with no much attention given to it until attempts at making it one of the nation’s security outfits, through an Act of the National Assembly. Repeated efforts at doing…
Enough of Buhari-styled change
Despite its magnificence, democracy has its limits. One of its major drawbacks is that it does not guarantee the election of good leaders; it only makes possible the removal of bad leaders. One cannot say President Mohammadu Buhari is a good…
Democracy under threat, by Uche Secondus
MY view on the above topic as the leader of the main opposition party in the country is not going to be fundamentally different from that of the rest of Nigerians. As objective as one would want to be even…
IGP Idris And The “Transmission” Drama – SOC Okenwa
The Inspector-General of the Nigerian police force, Idris Kpotun Ibrahim, is a man whose official state responsibility is as challenging as hell. Policing a vast country like Nigeria with a population of over three hundred million souls remains a daunting…