BAT 2023

Every election year comes with certain blues, mostly coated in hilarious garbs. We have seen politicians go to the streets dancing to the beat of the ghetto tunes. In this same clime, we have seen the aspiring political actors weep in naming ceremony homes thinking it was a funeral home. These actors can act any […]

For scholars who majored in International Relations or who took the course as an elective/minor in the late 1970s and early 1980s, John Spanier’s GAMES NATIONS PLAY: ANALYZING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS and Joan Edelman Spero’s THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS were compulsory reading.   Both texts were written against the background of the Cold War […]

If the idea of crowdfunding for former governor Peter Obi to contest the presidential election works, it will be one of the most decisive changes in Nigerian political history. Proposed by data analyst and social advocate, Segun Onigbinde, crowdfunding is a relatively uncharted terrain in Nigeria’s recent politics. Translating the idea into concrete action needs […]

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is an interventionist agency created for the development of the oil producing region of the country.   Well, it is meant to be an interventionist agency, but one thing is crystal clear. Despite hundreds of billions of naira invested over 20 years, the true intervention has been in the […]

Dear prospective president,   In this season of presidential declarations, let me first congratulate you on your bold confidence to step out and subject yourself to both public service and public scrutiny, whether you have declared to run or not. It is an enormous work to govern a country covering an area of 923,769 square […]

Text Press Of Conference On Friday 22nd October, 2021 By The Honourable Attorney General Of The Federation And Minister Of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN On Investigation Reports On Acts Of Terrorism And Allied Offences Perpetrated By Nnamdi Kanu And Report On the Sponsors And Financiers Of Sunday Igboho And Associates   Protocol   Ladies and […]

TEXT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY THE HON. MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE, ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED, ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHANTOM MASSACRE AT THE LEKKI TOLL GATE…IN ABUJA ON WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT. 2021   Good morning gentlemen and welcome to this press conference.    PHANTOM MASSACRE AT LEKKI TOLL GATE   Today […]

“We don’t believe in cheating or rigging elections but also we don’t want other parties to cheat us, and that was why we encouraged the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission to come up with a fool-proof voting process.” – Nasir el-Rufai   The prefatory statement above belongs to Nasir el-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna, one […]

Just like a flash of lightning and the sound of the thunder, the media space was buzzing with the news of Femi Fani-Kayode’s defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, thereby ending weeks of speculations and rumors that he intends to abandon the opposition ship, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.   The man popularly […]

Power. It excites and incites. It can excite hope and strength, or incite tension, hate and bitterness. Why should the regional background of the next president be a vexatious issue, evoking threats and recriminations? Why should brothers be at daggers drawn with each other over the geography of power? What happened to gentlemanly ententes, negotiations […]

Civil society groups, including Non-Governmental Organisations are a positive force for change and progress in society, oftentimes helping to bridge the gaps of alienation between government and the people. In developed parts of the world, CSOs and NGOs have been in the forefront of making our world a much better place by helping to fight […]

I have never felt so bad at being proven right, as I am by the report from Bloomberg Business on Saturday, March 27, 2021 that Nigeria is to emerge as the nation with the highest unemployment rate on earth, at just over 33 per cent. We warned about this, but repeated warnings by myself and […]