These final hours of “Mai gaskiya’s” Kakistocracy
By Tunde Olusunle The title of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s account of his stewardship as Nigeria’s President kept plodding in my mind as I thought through a heading for this piece.…
Yari: Yeoman for the job of Senate President
By Esther Agada, Nkechi Anadu, Folashade Ogunremi and Zainab Shuaib We are the Mothers of the Nation; we gave birth to the incoming senators and members of the House of…
Yahaya Bello, Louis XIV and the limits of absolutism
By Tunde Olusunle Since he became governor in circumstances which remain fuzzy over seven years ago, Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi State, has left no one in doubt about…
Election Petitions: Need for litigants, judges to avoid technicalities
By Ehichioya Ezomon In Nigeria, losers hardly accept their defeat, and virtually every election contest ends at the election petitions tribunal.To regain their alleged “stolen mandate,” petitioners attempt to exploit…
Who is afraid of Kingsley Idoko Ilona?
Our attention has been drawn to pockets of obviously poorly orchestrated campaigns of calumny against the person of Kingsley Idoko Ilona, the first runner up in last month’s Peoples Democratic…
Of Hadiza’s jaundiced narratives about the NPA and Intels Saga
By Paul Njowusi Perhaps the most interesting account in the 17-chapter book, entitled: “Stepping on Toes” by Hadiza Bala Usman, a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the…
A call for an open Speakership contest as in APC presidential race
By Demola Olugbenga The race for the Speakership of the House of Reps in the 10th National Assembly is gathering steam by the day with no less than 8 members…
And the top cop goes tough
By Tunde Olusunle He was acting in the line of duty, but I came off from my first and only encounter with him, not particularly liking him. It was in…
There’s no going back on resolve to retrieve people’s mandate; Barr. Natasha’s victory will be restored
The will of the good people of Kogi Central senatorial district may have been thwarted by the power that be but we are not giving up until justice is served…
Joint Task and the 10th House Speaker
By Emmanuel Danjuma A few days ago, a pressure group in the House of Representatives, The Joint Task-10th Assembly unveiled its agenda ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National…