Political Party Defections In Nigeria. By Okachikwu Dibia

The primary effort of the Nigerian politician is political power for economic power. With this power he or she is able to cause trouble in his or her locality, recruit cult boys and girls, buys guns and ammunitions for them, pay them monthly, ensure that in that locality they are the only ones with meaningful life to live. Details

Gale Of Defections: Game Of Musical Chairs. By Monima Daminabo

In any case, so much drama has marked the political terrain in recent times and leaves Nigerians with whetted appetite for more. Given that the anti-Saraki group will need at least two third majority to unseat him as Senate President, efforts at his ouster will surely attract more drama on the political turf. Even then, such will only be just another round of the game of musical chairs, that is traditional Nigerian politics. Details

Buhari is a Success, Not Problem of Nigeria. By  Muhammad Ajah

I have compassion for Buhari because, like hungry hunters, the Nigerian enemies have continued to hunt him from all angles, trying to confuse, disorganize, frighten, cage or even kill him. Let them have sleepless nights and plot. Let them toil. But their toils will be in vain. I do not need remind these slapdash hunters that their days are numbered. Justice will catch up with them when God will expose them to Nigerians and the world. Details

Democracy Rule Of Law & Religion In Trojan Horse. By Farouk Martins

Supporters of Buhari and Jonathan have lost their sense of sanity. Whenever the Looters fight, it is the poor masses that cry the loudest for the rule of law and democracy they hardly know.   We forget that Swahili proverb that when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. We see politicians divide income within themselves from our resources and celebrate together. But during the elections, they send us out for fight for them even at the cost of our lives. Details

Nigeria’s Political Leadership: Basic Qualities For Success. By Okachikwu Dibia

Nigeria has been a failed state since January 1914 when it was created. The Europeans who created the country did so for overwhelming economic interest: to create a market for the extraction of abundant raw materials, export the materials to Europe, convert the materials into commodities and export them back to Nigeria as finished goods. The ultimate political economy of this is that Nigeria has remained a commodities consuming state.  Details

Obj & Da 40 Thieves: Their Only Good President Is A Dead Mko. By Farouk Martins Aresa

Do not cry for Obasanjo as the only head of State to be tried and condemned to death which he luckily escaped. MKO Abiola, a member of the same gang, was killed without a trial. They now honored him in his grave. It could have been preferable to honor him alive but Their Only Good President Is A Dead MKO. Details

Abuja Massacre Of Police Officers: Matters Arising. By Ezekiel Daminabo

By virtue of their position in the security architecture, the police remain the frontline of the guiding angels of the citizenry including their haters and traducers, such as the ruthless gunmen that snuffed life out of the ‘Galadimawa Seven’. The implication then is that the assault on them constitutes an assault on the collective welfare of the entire citizenry. That is where the intervention of the National Assembly no only falls into context but also provides the impetus for the country to adopt a fresh look at the operational circumstances of the police pursuant to adopting a fast track to a complete make-over of the force, on the basis of the Constitutional provisions.  Details

That Anti-Open Grazing Bill Was Premature. By Lawrence P. Ganchok

Now, on the Anti-Open Grazing Bill that was hastily passed by Benue State House of Assembly, Taraba State House of Assembly and few others in Nigeria. I believe the State Houses of Assemblies only responded according to the prevailing situations in the land. These Bills were passed without proper articulation of the pros and cons of the after effect of the Bill. In the end the Bills CANNOT work. I believe the Bills targeted the Fulani (Nomadic) but does a Nomadic Fulani care since he is always on the move? Those who enacted the laws forgot that the Town Fulani and the Locals who have cows will also be subjected to the same laws of anti-open grazing. Details

 Presidential Amnesty Programme: More Openness Please! By Ezekiel Daminabo

Just as one bad turn ruins an otherwise fine trip, so do tendencies of misguided presumptions and attendant indiscrete responses, account for the less than optimal corporate governance practices, in the leadership circles of not a few organisations - at least in the Nigerian public space. The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) - judging by its recent history, suffers from an integrity surfeit courtesy of a hangover of past regime of compromised corporate governance, during the tenures of some of its immediate past leaders. Details

Kannywood, Struggle and Resuscitation of Cinema in Kano. By Muhsin Ibrahim

Kannywood film industry faces an existential threat from many fronts. A leading Hausa film scholar, Prof. Abdullah Uba Adamu declared last year that “by 2016, the Hausa film industry had literally crashed” and, therefore, major actors in the production, marketing and distributing its films had pulled out and ventured into other more propitious businesses. Details

Curbing Late Budgets: Moving Beyond Rhetoric. By Monima Daminabo

For those who think that delayed budgets for the country’s fiscal life do not matter, they are standing the truth on its head. For indeed, hardly can they have treated the country with a worse act of disservice. Even as space will fail this piece to delve into the wider implications of delayed budgets, suffice it to be declared that any delayed budget remains a dispensation that is dead on arrival. Details

Nigeria’s 2019 election: Background and setting. By  Edwin Madunagu

The self-determination group, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), has not, by force of arms, contested any part of the Nigerian territory. And none of the various armed groups in the Niger Delta region has, since the days of Isaac Boro, raised the banner of secession. These four regions—the Northeast, the Middle Belt, the Southeast and the Niger Delta—have been the main areas of threats to the territorial integrity of Nigeria since May 1999. But the “status quo ante” has been maintained.  Details

Sustainable Development Stories:   Accepting A TRUST. By Abdulwarees Solanke

Granted that many Sub-Saharan African countries were slow in catching up with modern civilization, this pejorative perception does not in any way do justice to the vast opportunities and resources of the continent, the very reason for which western nations invaded Africa to access raw materials to feed their factories during the industrial revolution. Details

Plato, Machiavelli and the Qualities of Good Political Leadership. By Okachikwu Dibia

Thus for Nigeria to progress, it needs leadership that has integrity, intellectualism, patriotism and fear of God. Applying these qualities on Nigerian political leadership, how many Nigerian leaders qualify to lead the country since independence in 1960? An attempt will show that over 90% of Nigeria’s past and present political leadership has no business in leading the country and that is the chief reason the country has remained underdeveloped since 1960. I will prove this very soon. Details

Poverty In Africa Not Rooted In Ethics Integrity Or Laziness. By Farouk Martins Aresa

Imported finished goods and services will never liberate you. Your destiny is in your own hands. Until we have an African country bold enough that other black countries can look up to throughout the world, we will continue to wallow in poverty, lose best brains and our leaders that want to be like their colonial masters, even as great grandchildren of slaves, will continue to sell us out for pittance. Details

Buhari 2019 Campaigners: Lying to Sell a Truth. By Professor Abdussamad Umar Jibia

As the rest of us are waiting for explanation or at worst a mum, I m particularly disappointed at the kind of things coming from the Government and her social media campaigners. Last week, for example, many newspapers bore various headlines like, ‘Good News: FG Declares Tuition FREE At All Federal Universities In Nigeria’, ‘Beware that tuition fee is now illegal in Federal Universities’, etc. My God! As someone who has been in a Federal University for almost a half of my short life I know that tuition has been free in Federal universities from the beginning. My parents did not pay for me and I m not paying for my children. My students are not paying. Why then present the issue as if tuition fees were being paid and the Government of the day is now banning it?Details