By Dakuku Peterside Last week, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) issued an alert warning of the high probability of 14 states experiencing heavy rainfall that...
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, I extensively talked with a set of enterprising, upwardly mobile young men and women in Abuja. I chose to label that intera...
By Dakuku Peterside. Education is a critical priority for Nigeria, as it is for any nation serious about growth and development. Unfortunately, in the past 10...
By FEMI ADESINA On Sunday April 30, the Media Office of the President released a 91-page document on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari over the...
By Dakuku Peterside Nigeria’s nascent democratic journey has lasted for 24 uninterrupted years, the first time in its history. Previous democratic interregnums did not last long enough...
By FEMI ADESINA He is there, quiet, unobtrusive, self-effacing. But he’s also there like a bull. Powerful, forceful, effective, high-octane. Sometimes you see him, most times,...
By Dakuku Peterside. Democracy, by its design, nature, and practice, is not a light toggle switch that is turned on and off. It is not a...
By FEMI ADESINA All things are now ready. Last week, I wrote about the cleaning and clearing of my office in State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja....
By Dakuku Peterside Nigerians have divided opinions about the efficacy of democracy in driving its development. There are constant threats to our democracy stemming from procedural...
By FEMI ADESINA There’s a saying in Yoruba language that the horse does not spurn the final gallop home. True. Home is that place you go...