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By Kunle Somorin In a keenly contested gubernatorial election like we had last Saturday in Ogun State, it is trite to say that there would be only one winner and 12 losers. Close watchers opined that the winner would either the incumbent, Dapo Abiodun or his hard-fighting clansman, Ladi Adebutu. A few pundits thought the ...
By Olumide Olaiya In the past few days, divergent views on the hydra-headed issues thrown up by the Presidential and National Assembly elections of 25th February, 2023 have been expressed by lawyers and non-lawyers via write-ups and news media interviews. It is interesting to note that some views gained very wide acceptability simply because the ...
By Funmi Branco The 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections have come and gone. Prior to the elections, there had been a lot of trepidation, anxiety and tension across the country, including Ogun State. But the elections turned out to be mostly peaceful. Regardless of the imperfections in the system, a president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed ...
By Ismail Omipidan “These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible.” The above quote from Chief EU observer Max van den Berg, in 2007, summed up the outcome of the 2007 presidential election supervised by former President Olusegun ...
Over the years, Civic Education as a subject has become a major component of inculcating moral, culture and values into children in primary schools across the country. The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) recently presented Electoral Education Curriculum and Teacher's Guide for primary schools in a move to use the civic education curriculum ...
By Ola Emmanuel The skit maker chose a very auspicious location to pass the message across. Crossing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, with the fast-moving vehicles on top speed in both direction, she struggled to climb over the divide in an attempt to cross to the other side. She was on call and passing a message as ...
I came across something of interest, which motivated me, and I would love to share it with you, it says, “You are smart enough, beautiful enough, and strong enough! Believe it and stop letting insecurity ruin you. Nothing holds you back more than your own insecurity. Do one thing every day that scares you; for ...
Old habits can be hard to change, even as we mature and acquire more education. Some habits seem to stick with us, and that seems to be the case with my old friend Chidi Odinkalu, who can’t seem to shake his incessant rants against Governor Nasir El-Rufai. While Odinkalu’s rantings could be seen as comical ...
By: Taiwo Kolawole Hassan In her article titled: 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 ...
The concept of Amnesty, Disarmament, Deradicalisation and Reintegration (DDR) are universal tools used in resolving conflicts and violence with remarkable results globally. However, community-based reintegration is much more critical to sustainable peace in any country coming out of conflict. Amnesty refers to a decision by government to allow political prisoners to go free. It has ...
As a Financial expert, I make bold to say that Cashless policy is a function of lifestyle. You don’t put a peg on cash limit when you don’t give out the new Naira notes. Why do you want people to stop spending the old naira notes when new ones are not made available? I hereby ...
On Thursday, February 2, 2023, the Business Editor, Channels TV, Ini John-Mekwa, literally put the National President, Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria, Mr Victor Olojo, on the spot during a short interview on zoom on the ongoing nagging issue of naira notes swap. The apex bank mandates banks to pay new naira notes . The ...
Today, I want to revisit the certificate forgery matter of Governor Ademola Adeleke so as to let Nigerians know that there are plethora cases around the issue.But before I proceed, let me digress a bit. By my nature, I discuss, contextualise and analyse issues based on facts presented. After observing the facts, I apply logic ...
By Dr Gbenga Adeoye Over the years, government agencies have been led substantially by people who possessed insufficient education, experience and exposure. What we fail to understand is that in Latin, we learnt that you cannot give what you don’t have.(Nemo dat quod non habet) The worst aspect of it is the interpretation of a ...
By Olabisi Adedamola As the 2023 general election is only a month away, it is not necessarily news that the public space is witnessing a resurgence of vitriol against the person and office of the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun. If the Governor recently selected by Forbes Magazine as the winner of the ...
By Ismail Omipidan When in August 2022, I announced to the whole world that in Osun, my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, did not lose the July 16 Governorship election, but only lost the vote count, some Nigerians, especially sympathisers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were furious. They called me names. But they could not marshall ...
*By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com* Pastor Tunde Bakare, a sly folk struck a wrong note last Sunday, supposedly the Sabbath Day of the Lord, and gone off the rails, with an axe to grind in order to get Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu dazzled out of the conscious reality of Nigerian voters. Bakare, probably on drip from ...
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed optimism that the construction and real estate sector would respond positively to a rise in investment from people wishing to store value through real estate investment. The chamber disclosed this in a statement signed by its Director-General, Dr Chinyere Almona. It noted that the last quarter ...
...Seeks new sociology of voting behaviour in re-enacting the 1999 electoral investment puzzle that gave PDP its winning streak ...Citing his foundational creativity as towering political scorecard for evaluation over rival APC By Prince Chidera Ejike-Umunnabuike Jr & Nazir Galadanchi E COSMOPOLITAN Nigeria Nigeria’s Information Communication Technology [ ICT] genius and National Pension Reforms content ...
Prison security and administration in the country has been a matter of intense debate and criticism at various public fora since the breach of security at Kuje Maximum Custodial Centre in July 2022. The problems of dilapidated prison structures, congestion, high number of awaiting trial inmates, poor care and treatment of inmates and related matters, ...
By FEMI ADESINA It was raging debate at a time in the country, when the land was beleaguered and almost totally asphyxiated by insurgency. Should we procure the services of foreign mercenaries or not? There were strident arguments for and against. At the security council meeting, the issue came up, and there were points for ...
By Dr Gbenga Adeoye I read a book in 2022 with a title success is not an accident. Indeed, the author has a clear understanding of the impact of deliberate decisions. One of the reasons I like one young man I am providing mentorship for is that his words of prayer reads every time as ...
By Dr. Ezrel Tabiowo As one of Nigeria’s longest serving legislators, Senator Ahmad Lawan, can be regarded as one of the most experienced lawmakers when it comes to the workings and trappings of lawmaking. The knowledge amassed from his time in the House of Representatives to the Senate afforded him the edge in coming through ...
By Rafiu Ajakaye Soft-spoken, easy-to-admit his human frailties, and not given to noisemaking, Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq speaks only to give a message or deliver a blow of maximum impacts to the target. That’s what he recently did when he flagged-off the campaign for Turaki Ngeri and APC Senatorial Candidate for Kwara Central Mallam Saliu ...
By Dakuku Peterside 2023 for Nigerians is about choice and with choice comes consequences. We face critical decisions on many issues that will define our future as a country and as citizens. The most obvious and consequential of this choice and consequence effect is the general elections. We will be voting at various levels and ...
