Perspectives
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Can Amaechi really be a President? By Ayokunle Adebayo
His Excellency, Rotimi Amaechi has an ‘impressive’ performance in public office. However, I have few questions to ask and issues to clarify. Aside holding political offices, what other vocation was he into? If there was none, can he please tell us the source of his stupendous wealth? Apart from being involved in politics does H. E Amaechi have a ‘second…
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Moving Forward with Courage, By Rotimi Amaechi
Fellow Nigerians, I stand before you today to declare my intention and submit my application to serve as your next President. I did not come to this decision lightly. I have served our nation for the last seven years as Minister of Transportation. For eight years before that, I served as Governor of Rivers State. In the preceding eight years…
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APC, PDP: Pertinent lessons from Awo, By Segun Ayobolu
Whatever may be their shortcomings and failings, the two dominant parties, All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are impressive political constructs that took considerable organizational effort to actualize. Rather than seek to discard them, every effort should be continuously made to strengthen their organizational structures, improve their internal democratic processes, deepen their philosophical and ideological underpinnings as…
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Why Always MultiChoice? By Temitope Ajayi
As Nigerians, we, somehow, have this dandy as candy belief that our case must always be different. Whatever is happening elsewhere must not affect us because we are supposed to be insulated from the vagaries of the political economy around the world. Our heavy metal religiosity, which convinces us that we are a special race, is probably responsible for our…
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Osuntokun and the quest for a new brigade, By Dare Babarinsa
Professor Akinjide Osuntokun is the youngest of the Osuntokun brothers from the same mother. Today, he is the lone survivor, the patriarch of the Osuntokun clan who, for almost a century, has been part of our history. Osuntokun chooses to be an historian, but he is also a part of our living history for he was an eyewitness and participant…
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The push against zoning in PDP, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Peoples Democratic Party leadership conspiracy to undermine zoning is unfair, writes Bolaji Adebiyi Speculations were rife earlier in the week that the Samuel Ortom-led 37-man committee, constituted by the Peoples Democratic Party to advise it on the part of the country that should be allotted its presidential ticket, had recommended that the top job should be thrown open. This understandably…
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Inciting comments are part of insecurity
Let’s start with a caveat: free comments are part of democracy, and so this is not an attempt to muzzle anyone. Nobody should come and shout, oh, they don’t want us to say our minds again. They want to padlock our mouths. Not at all. President Muhammadu Buhari is not even the type that would gag anyone, and the polity…
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Reform is in the making, By Babatunde Irukera
It may be slow, even tedious, but one day at a time, the landscape for accountability in the marketplace is changing. I am particularly happy today because of two decisions that emanated from the State and Federal High Court. One from the Enugu State High Court, and the other from the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court. Both decisions…
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Anarchy and El Rufai’s call for mercenaries, By Kayode Ajulo
It is now trite that Nigeria in recent times has been trailing through periods of insecurity of lives and property as well as none respect for the rule of law, natural justice and human dignity. This fact has in recent months been unhappily emphasized by the startling events which occurred in this country. I shall not belabor the point but…
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Oshiomhole @ 70: The untold stories, By Louis Odion
“Yes, next?”“Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily “is the widow you met sometime ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to maintain the house in Iyahmo.” The circumstances of…
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