I find the request from Buba Marwa, head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to political parties to support the idea that all aspirants for political office be brought for a drug inte...
By Jaye Gaskia The forthcoming general elections in Nigeria in 2023, the 7th of the current 4th republic, is barely a year away, and is taking place against the backdrop of a deepening, general, protr...
A plus ca change. Leadership fails, followership fails; society atrophies and nothing changes. Why? We keep reinventing purgatory because we are either too complacent or too self-absorbed to interroga...
By Oche Echeija Egwa Every visitor to Nigeria’s seat of power, Aso Rock, is first struck by the beautiful scenery of green and white; our national colours. From the entrance, Pilot Gate, white edifice...
By Haruna SalamiAs the race for 2023 presidential election gathers momentum, there are renewed calls on former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to run for the plum position. A group under the aegis o...
By Dakuku Peterside The people are the bedrock of democracy. The supremacy of the people and the democratic institutions over and above individuals, no matter how well placed or wealthy, is at the cor...
In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At the time this was hardly an earth-shattering pred...
‘’It’s not my problem.’’ – This was President Muhammadu Buhari’s immutable response to a question on his thoughts on the 2023 elections. Buhari has been coerced and blandished to assert himself like f...
By Osmund Agbo Last week, Nigerians received with mixed feelings the news of President Buhari granting pardon to 159 prisoners serving jail terms for various offenses in Nigerian prisons. The pardon,...
By Dan Agbese Email: [email protected] SMS: 0805500191 These are not the best of times for President Muhammadu Buhari. This is the time he should be dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s as he e...
