Penultimate Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections are sad reminders of how elections generally have been in this country since pre-Independence period – warped, rigged, and discredited; thus tearing us apart rather than uniting us. This is one major reason why this country is not meshing into a nation. It is why we pull apart […]
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On the Lord’s Day
32 arguments against Buhari’s shoot-on-sight order
IN addition to all of President Muhammadu Buhari’s gaffes during the 2015 electioneering campaign must now be his shoot-on-sight order against election offenders or, specifically, against ballot-box snatchers during the rescheduled elections! Some have said the order was borne out of the president’s love for democracy and his resolve to ensure credible, free, and fair […]
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And the winner is…
BY the time you are reading this, the likelihood is that the results of the presidential and National Assembly election of yesterday (Saturday, February 16th, 2019) would have been out partially or in full. Whether our democracy has matured or taken a bashing would also have become obvious in the way INEC, the security agencies, […]
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Lagos: When two elephants fight…
The 35-day government shutdown, the longest in the history of the United States of America, was constitutional and open; but the one here involving the Lagos State Government, which is “technical” and hidden, has been on since Governor Akinwunmi Ambode lost his second term bid last year. While the US government shutdown may have temporarily […]
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And the clock ticks …
Ihave decided to yield this column today to two ardent readers, one from abroad and the other from the home front. Before then, the ongoing campaign is so, so drab; the two leading parties appear to be bereft of ideas; very much unlike what we witnessed this same period four years ago. It is like […]
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As Ondo grapples with security challenges…
ON Thursday, January 17th, 2019, the Ondo State Government organised a first-of-its-kind “Security Summit” at the state capital, Akure, to address the security challenges that have recently plagued it. Ondo was the state where Chief Olu Falae, former Minister of Finance, former Secretary to the Federal Government, former Presidential candidate, was abducted and humiliated by […]
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2019, Yoruba interests, and Osinbajo’s vaulting ambition (IV)
NOW, are the Igbo marginalised in the scheme of things in Nigeria? On the economic front, they do not appear so. Despite the bitterness of many Igbo against Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the Civil War, the Igbo are today at the commanding height of Nigeria’s economy. This is not to say they had it […]
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2019, Yoruba interests, and Osinbajo’s vaulting ambition III
LAST week we ended by saying Zik failed in 1952 to realise his ambition of being “Premier” of Western Region despite that his party, NCNC, had won the leading number of seats into the parliament while the AG of Chief Obafemi Awolowo came second. Other smaller parties teamed up with the AG to deliver the […]
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2019: Yoruba interests, and Osinbajo’s vaulting ambition
ONCE again, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo stirred the hornets’ nest with his garrulous postulation that the 2019 presidential election will determine Yoruba’s fate in 2023; saying Yoruba vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 will automatically position the ethnic nationality to clinch the presidency in 2023: Otherwise, the Yoruba will lose out in the race for […]
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Why is Christmas not in the air?
It is two days to Christmas but nothing suggests that the festivities are here! If you say Christmas is for Christians alone, then, in one week, 2018 will roll away and 2019 will be here. Again, nothing suggests that we are getting ready for New Year. In years past, the atmosphere would have been charged […]
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