BAT 2023

In another few days, March, 28th, to be exact, you – yes, YOU – will, most likely be going to join other Nigerians, at your neighbourhood poling station, for the purpose of casting your vote, for the President of your choice.  That is, if you are a bona fide Nigerian citizen; eighteen years of age […]

With long hours without light and expensive petrol and diesel self-generation still a day-to-day reality for Nigerians, electricity remains a vexing national challenge. As it is in other countries, we want the light to come on anytime you turn on the switch without thinking much about it until the bill comes at the end of […]

“If you must tell a lie, be brief, that’s why adverts are short”. The whirling nature of life today projects a radical departure from this unwritten aphorism that defines the creation of persuasive messaging. We are inundated with barefaced lies shielded in shades of hypocrisy and falsehood. From the office, to the community, on the […]

Lest we become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, it is important we clearly and calmly say to the APC Presidential Campaign Organization (APCPCO) and indeed the whole of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership and voters that whilst their refusal to participate in the NEDG-organised presidential debates is not only a legitimate […]

I am deeply concerned that at this time of political campaign, as it usually happens, the word “Christian” is loosely used in reference to certain candidates for elective offices in Nigeria. The church stands the risk of being used for very indecent purposes, and I would like to counsel the church leadership not to mislead […]

Muhammadu Buhari may be a man of integrity as many like to shout the rest of us down with; but he has lost whatever purity was ascribed to him, if any. He has lost every measure of respect now that we know that as former head of state, he did not know that copies of […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola

Human suffrage (the right to vote) is so fundamental and inalienable that it has found its way into many constitutions all over the world including ours. For hundreds of years, many and different classes of people, women, blacks etc. fought and died for this right. It is a proprietary and intellectual right as it is […]

Since the flag off of campaigns by political parties and their candidates in the coming presidential election in Nigeria, the candidates, especially the two major contenders, Mohammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress, APC and President Goodluck Jonathan of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have said a lot. However, while it is commendable that the PDP and […]

The Nigeria Government has for several years been engulfed in a fierce battle to curb the activities of terror groups (namely the Boko Haram Sect) who have taken advantage of the liberal disposition of Nigerians to unleash mayhem resulting in the deaths of thousands. As expected, Government has not sat idle with its arms crossed […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Primary Election held under the supervision of the King Asara Asara-led PDP National Electoral Panel has continued to dominate discussions in Enugu political arena.  The reviews and comments arise mainly from the overwhelming endorsement of Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s candidature on one hand and the flawed claim by Senator Ayogu […]

There can be no better expression of apprehension over the 2015 elections than the spontaneous groundswell of agitation for violence-free balloting by many prominent as well as obscure Nigerians and some of the country’s deeply concerned foreign friends. Perhaps, given the palpable fear of explosive conflict that the unquestionably zero-sum election might generate, it is […]