By the time Nigerians file into polling units in 2027, the most consequential battle for the nation’s democracy may already have been fought—and perhaps won or lost. Elections are merely democra...
Fifteen months ago, during last year’s fasting month of Ramadan, the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, invited selected senior journalists to his residence in Ikoyi for Iftar (breaking of t...
Speech by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, former Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria, while Accepting His Nomination as the Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, at the Transcorp Hil...
An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has advised political parties in the South West to field Muslim candidates if they want Muslims to vote for them. The...
And Paul said unto the people of Plateau North: be not deceived by garments, by grammar, by convoys, nor by the sudden holiness that falls upon men when election season draweth near. For many shall co...
Nigeria’s political space is not merely shrinking – it is being deliberately constricted,engineered into a narrow corridor where dissent is tolerated only in symbolic doses andopposition is perm...
There is an urgent assignment for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It is the need to intervene and seek to resolve the festering conflict between Cross Rivers State and its neighbouring Akwa Ibom State,...
As the August 8, 2026, Osun governorship election draws near, the reality on the ground – not the rhetoric – will decide our fate as a state and people. To begin with, it is plain to see t...
The road into State X, Local Government Y, Community Z is not a road. It is a long, angry paragraph written in the handwriting of neglect. Every sentence is a pothole. Every comma ...
In the last couple of days, Rivers State has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Since the 2023 general elections that returned Siminalayi Fubara as the Governor of the State, the state has not en...
