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I have spent quality time reading the Country Report on Human Rights released in Washington D.C last week, encompassing a damning assessment of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. This 48-page report prepared and made public by the…
Nigerians and the rest of the world have been treated to a most bizarre and undesirable public drama involving the police and a serving federal legislator, Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West Senatorial District of Kogi State). The entire world saw…
Reaching a consensus about who a youth is in Nigeria is a fundamental challenge which may blur every other discussion about this demography. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation says youthfulness is an attribute of people who are…
It is by now certain, ceteris paribus, that the names of President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will be on the ballot when Nigerians go to the polls next February. The president voted in favour of running,…
You can describe Wednesday, April 18, 2018 anyhow you like, but it was indeed, a national day of opprobrium. Some would also say it was a national day of mourning. Or how does one describe a day the National Assembly,…
Penultimate week the Rainbow nation in particular and the world in general were treated to the melancholic news about the demise of the former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic former South African President, Winnie Madikizela Mandela. She…
In an incident that must rank as one of the most bizarre since the return to civil rule in 1999, hoodlums suspected to be under the authority of a suspended senator, Mr. Ovie Omo-Agege, invaded the Red Chamber during plenary…
On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, the Senate demonstrated the exasperation that has engulfed the nation over the senseless and relentless killings of Nigerians by calling for the sack of the Service Chiefs of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The Service Chiefs…
For any well-meaning Nigerian, these are very disturbing times. The orgy of violence visited on some states of the federation, the mass murders of innocent citizens all over the country and the seeming lack of capacity by security agents to…
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, ruled Nigeria for sixteen years. It is the largest party ever to have ruled Nigeria and tagged itself as “the largest party in Africa”. At the height of its glory PDP controlled 26 states after…