Opinion

By Haruna Sanusi The clamour for the implementation of the Act creating the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Civil Service Commission has assumed a frightening dimension but what is clear, though oversighted by most of the agitatiors is that, it is not everything that is expedient that may be truly beneficiall....

By Paul Njowusi Perhaps the most interesting account in the 17-chapter book, entitled: “Stepping on Toes” by Hadiza Bala Usman, a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), is chapter 9 that essentially dwells on the politics of Intels in the context of the...

As the race for the Federal House of Representatives speaker hots up, fresh facts have emerged on why northern leaders are against the aspiration of Hon. Tajudeen Abass. Abbas who passes as one of the high-ranking lawmakers in the House is said to be of south west extraction and a...

By Philip Agbese This is the era of reawakening in Nigeria. The youths have clamored for a generational shift in the country’s governance. The agitation is genuine, and most political parties have systematically keyed into this reawakening. The slogan is rife. The people are prepared, and the manifestation is now....

By Abubakar Haruna The great Confluence State of Kogi is on the March again, seeking a worthy and an inclusive Governor as the Alhaji Yahaya Bello era winds down in a few months. This time the challenge before the people of Kogi State is the call for a broad-based Kogi...

By ALOY EJIMAKOR Yesterday (May 4, 2023), I tweeted on my Twitter handle that “Given that the FINALITY of election result is decided by the Court, except where the INEC-declared result is uncontested, it’s unconstitutional to swear-in a winner whose victory has not been affirmed by the Court. Where’s the...

I cannot pretend not to have read all sorts on this subject. My response to one of such posts on Oliseh, was a response to my friend, Zion Ose. I hope my comment below clarifies the controversy for some of us: No, no, no. You have mixed up too many...

By Malam Farouk U. Muhammed, mni This little piece is about the above subject. However, given the Nigerian political environment, it would be proper to contextualize the supportive role the incoming Tinubu/Shettima Administration and indeed the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership should play. Already, the National Assembly (NASS) leadership tussles...

By Ibrahim Mohammed I remember how Hadiza Bala Usman happened in Nigeria’s public sector as a special assistant to then Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir el-Rufai and was exposed during a senate committee’s public hearing on the FCT, during which the public was apprised of how she...

The latest in a series of some partisan editorials by some of this country’s newspapers seeking to rewrite recent history was published by the Punch newspaper paper this weekend, painting a bleak, pessimistic and frequently inaccurate picture of the state of our nation and outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership. In...