2019: ANOTHER LEAP YEAR

It is a common saying that history is such a petty teacher that would not mind repeating the simplest of lessons a thousand times and for several generations until it…

2019: BEYOND THE WEDDING

You could taste the excitement in the air with your tongue taking a heavy scoop of wet dust. It would only be the early days of the first rains in…

THE WORLD IS WATCHING

Dear Mr President, while presenting the 2019 budget on Wednesday at the national assembly, you became somewhat nationalistic when some lawmakers accused you of lying. In the footages that circulated…

NASS 2019 BUDGET PRESENTATION: ANOTHER WALK OF SHAME

This week's plenary session that held on Wednesday, December 19, at the National Assembly took the whole game of pettiness to a different level. It was a joint session of…

BUHARI’S GOVERNMENT: NIGERIA’S GREATEST MISFORTUNE

Like every other Nigerian, I jumped for joy upon hearing of the imminent end to Goodluck jonathan’s tenure, after our current leader President Buhari had won the 2015 election with…

THE NEXT LEVEL: LET’S TALK ABOUT IT

The All Progressive Congress (APC) came in like a tornado and torpedoed our resistance to change as they chanted an hypnotic political mantra: change. Change is one thing that humans…

CLASS OF 1966: MONOPOLY OF POLITICAL POWER IN NIGERIA

Nigeria has always struggled with good governance but this current administration portrayed that flaw like we have never witnessed. The embryonic stage of Nigeria was characterized by young agile Nigerians…

ELECTIONS WILL NOT SOLVE NIGERIA’S PROBLEMS

In two months time, Nigeria will be engrossed in yet another round of elections. The every 4-year ritual has actually not helped the country in her quest to elevate herself…

THE INCONGRUOUS YOUTH FORCE

As the campaign for increased involvement in the forthcoming Nigeria General Elections began in earnest, I have oftentimes heard young people say that their participation in the elections will not…

THE ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL: IS BUHARI SINCERE?

Last Saturday, President Mohammadu Buhari declined assent to the Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 2018 passed by the National Assembly for presidential assent according to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (amended).…