By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu IN A COUNTRY and a season in which candour is not always seen as a virtue, those who make it the currency of their daily lives are either idolized, endangered or idolized into endangerment. On the Nigerian streets, a person who addresses issues of public significance with candour can be described […]
By Paul Ejime THE RESULTS of South Africa’s 2024 elections further illustrate what pro-democracy groups have always canvassed – good governance/leadership is tribe and race-blind. South Africa comprises people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions, including Indian South Africans, who constitute 2.7% of the population, t...
By Victor Itodo Abuh FOR MANY years, unions and employees in Nigeria have used labour strikes as a means of expressing their discontent and pressing the government to act. Also called industrial actions, strikes have historically been a useful tool for bringing attention to urgent issues, such as rising gasoline prices and inadequate wages. Th...
By Bola BOLAWOLE IT MADE a lot of sense that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu chose to mark, not celebrate, his first year in office. Celebration would have been termed insensitive by many, and the president would have been charged for profligacy and extravagance. Which serious or sane leader celebrates when the people he leads are […]
By Banji Ojewale THERE COMES a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor polite, not popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him he is right —Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) American churchman and civil liberties defender. In his book, An Outline of the History of the World, […]
By Babafemi Ojudu I get frequent invites from university students to give talks, and I always make an effort to oblige them, no matter how inconvenient it may be. Last week, I answered such a call and traveled two hours to Akungba, the university named after the disciplined and incorruptible politician, Chief Adekunle Ajasin. A […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE IT IS A PUZZLE that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has dragged the 36 state governments to court to compel them to respect the autonomy of the 774 local governments, often touted, though erroneously, as the third tier of government and the government that is closest to the grassroots. That Tinubu […]
By Victor Itodo Abuh IN A surprising turn of events, Muhammad Sanusi II was reinstated as the Emir of Kano, a position he was controversially dethroned from in March 2020. This reinstatement marks a significant moment in Kano’s political and cultural history, underscoring the dynamic interplay between traditional authority and modern pol...
By Salihu Moh. Lukman UNFOLDING EVENTS in Kano following the reinstatement of His Royal Highness Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the 16th Emir of Kano on Thursday, May 23, 2024 by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf is, to say the least, very alarming. The way and manner politics is being played, is not only recklessly insensitive to […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THERE IS no denying the fact that corruption has become endemic in our country Nigeria and that it has eaten very deep into every fabric of the society. I listened to a vox populi on social media some days ago where Nigerians who had “japa” from the country were asked whether they […]
