Opinion

NDA Attack: It’s evil, pure and simple

They actually gloat, pretending to be concerned, while actually rejoicing that the house rat had urinated in the pot of soup.

Why not scrap local government elections?

The federal electoral body should be in charge of elections into the LGAs or a new federal body should be created for it, which should be truly independent.

Mystery of Dangote refinery in Nigerian oil politics

Why is a refinery that is supposed to be a shining light of domestic investment stymied by needless state-sanctioned controversies?

Tinubu, Shettima and the Christian vote

Apart from religious disrespect, there is also the argument that the assumption by the Tinubu camp that Northern Muslims won’t vote a Muslim-Christian ticket is baseless.

Did Rotimi Amaechi take an oath of silence?

However, political blackout beckons; Amaechi should not let himself slither away into oblivion.

Hisbah thugs should leave Shatu Garko alone!

Apparently, these sartorial codes are meant only for Muslim women who have the misfortune of being born by parents who aren’t prosperous and politically connected.

The Igbo, Pastor Tunde Bakare and the lies of a failed state

The story that the prime minister was bathed in wine and inebriated with it is aimed at sustaining the opprobrium first established by revisionists in 1966.

2023 election highlights imperative of power rotation

In Nigeria, the embeddedness of identity in electoral politics is complicated by the fact that our political divisions are formed around invariable attributes such as ethnicity and near invariable categories such as religion.

The merits in power shift to Southern Nigeria

This has generated so much bad blood and avoidable tension in the polity and resulted in existential threat to national unity.
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