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A giant-sized jinx was broken recently when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced a first Net Profit in the 44-year history of the organization. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as Minister for Petroleum Resources, the oil conglomerate announced a first-ever profit of N287 billion. Such had never happened before. But that was by ...
By Dakuku Peterside Last week we started a series about possible scenarios in our match to the decisive year 2023. The year 2023 represents a watershed of a sort because the forces at play today in the political space and national life constitute a credible threat to National Unity. We have never been this polarised ...
By FEMI ADESINA How did you feel watching Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, inspecting the just completed multi-million dollars bridge at Ikom, Cross River State, early this week? Any person of goodwill, not overtaken by bile and ill will, would feel proud to be a Nigerian. Such people would be proud of ...
Continue from Monday edition be certain absolute limits on constitutional amendment. In 1965, Conrad gave a lecture on “Implied Limitations of the Amending Power” at the Law Faculty of the Banaras Hindu University, and afterwards wrote significant articles in Indian law journals on implied limits on constitutional amendment. The first and most important article was ...
By Dakuku Peterside You could call it premonitions, dreams, forecasts, or revelations. I have a clear guesstimate of possible scenarios that will shape our political future and help us better understand what will most likely happen before, during, and after the 2023 elections in Nigeria. I have untangled the scenarios into four different periods or ...
One of the greatest political activities in Nigeria is to dishonestly heap the blame of all the challenges arising from our shortcomings on the 1999 Constitution as amended. From outright demand of a new constitution fashioned on the 1963 constitution to power devolution or restructuring, the voice and pen are highly strong and unanimous for ...
In a country whose dreaded anticorruption agency is racing toward zero-graft society where cyber criminals and politicians no longer exploit the weak and deactivated institutions and the finite resources, but rather abandon detrimental pathways to fraud. Forcing the dubious amongst us to heed to a chorus call for a corrupt-free-Nigeria and resilient future is celebratory. ...
By Jerry Lazarus I finally had an opportunity to go through the senate and house committee reports on the PIB. The main thrust of the bill is to open up the Nigeria oil and gas industry to investment, strengthen industry governance and regulation to expand, grow and maximize value capture for Nigeria and her citizens. ...
By Oluwaseun Owojori Flyover is an important road structure mostly built on intersections to carry away the uninterrupted traffic, mostly in urban areas. In order to curb the transportation problems within and around the Capital City of Oshogbo, the transformative and progressive government of the State of Osun ably and reliably led Gov Gboyega Oyetola ...
By Rotimi Makinde Prominent Yoruba figures have contributed immensely to the development of the Nigerian state. The likes of Herbert Macaulay, Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Akintola, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Remi Fani-Kayode, etc; they all played pivotal roles in the fight to advance the human rights of the colonized and nationalist struggle towards self-determination prior to independence in ...
By: Taiwo Kolawole Hassan The Emergent Queer: Homosexuality and Nigerian Fiction in the 21st Century, LINDSEY GREEN-SIMMS of the American University began with this first salvo, saying, “In Wole Soyinka’s 1965 novel The Interpreters, the African American professor Joe Golder, perhaps one of the most well known gay characters in African literature, says to the ...
Hon Rotimi Makinde, former Member of the House of Representatives and former deputy chairman of Human Rights Committee of the 7th Assembly states that Nigeria is like a theatre of comedy where sentiments are allowed to becloud people's sense of reasoning and the position of the law and even the law enforcement agents are equally ...
By Goke Ilesanmi Last week, we said as a politician, for instance, you need to master the art of effective public speaking and persuasive communication to succeed because you must be able to convince the electorate and even win opposition over during electoral campaigns so that they can vote for you. We added that research ...
By Femi Adesina New things are happe-ning at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator. Marwa took a broom, and swept Lagos almost clean. With Operation Sweep, criminals were given bloody noses, and sent scampering ...
By Dakuku Peterside Last week, something with significant but far-reaching diplomatic implications happened in security circles, particularly in the maritime security sphere. Denmark, a tiny European community of 5.3m people, less than the size and population of Rivers State in Nigeria, resolved to send a frigate to patrol and police Gulf of Guinea waters. The decision follows a ...
By Femi Adesina Let’s have a comic diversion today from weightier matters of our national life. Because what I want to discuss can only be comic, if not also idiotic and otiose. Yes, you read the headline right. The money I allegedly stashed at a bank in Minnesota, United States of America. Not millions of ...
By Femi Adesina Let me give due credit for the idea of this piece. President Muhammadu Buhari had said recently that elites in the country were not giving due accolades to his administration in terms of where it met the country, what it grapples with, and where it has been able to take the nation ...
By Femi Adesina Almost everything in our country is accompanied by some sort of furore. You do, you are damned. You don’t do, you are damned. No wonder President Muhammadu Buhari often says in private conversations, when some tumults occur on certain issues: “Head or tail, you never win with some Nigerians.” And he then ...
By Dakuku Peterside In the South West ,Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho has recently been in the news. The self-styled Yoruba activist gained popularity (or notoriety) recently in the country after he led an attack against a Fulani community leader in Oyo whom he accused of harbouring Fulani herders engaging in criminal activities. Following ...
By Dakuku Peterside The military institution is one of the most important state institutions in Nigeria and indeed anywhere in the world. Apart from their traditional mandate to protect the country’s territorial integrity, the Nigerian military is also charged with ensuring internal cohesion. All over the world, the military is an organisation authorised to use ...
By Hon Rotimi Makinde Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. As a politician I have always refrained myself from anything that has to do about minning in Ile ife and its environment.Not because I do not have the liver to comment or that I do not need ...
Hon Rotimi Makinde The sources of our fragmentation most time start with our attitudes toward truth. If you are blunt, reserved, honest or exceptionally talented. It may be termed as arrogance in nature and describe as peacock! Finally, someone has answered the question that has exasperated ultimately...That person is Oluwo of Iwo Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Telu ...
By Dakuku Peterside Ugandans went to the polls last weekend in a hotly contested election and supposedly re-elected President Yoweri Museveni for a sixth term in office. He will continue a 35-year rule of the country. According to official government figures, the incumbent president won 58.6% of the vote while his nearest rival, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly ...
By Femi Adesina There’s a short video you can find online that brings tears to my eyes. It features soldiers of the Nigerian Army, four spry young men, the type of whom the Good Book says “the glory of young men is their strength,” and they are in a desert-like environment, in front of a ...
By Femi Adesina I hate to see professors die. And in recent days, we have lost three of them to the strange ailment called COVID-19, currently ravaging the world. Within two weeks, we lost three professors in quick succession. Habu Galadima, Director-General, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). Femi Odekunle, renowned criminologist and ...
