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Contextualizing Ahmad Lawan’s senate presidency

By Sufuyan Ojeifo The endorsement by former Abia governor and Senator-elect, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, of Senator Ahmad Lawan’s candidature for senate presidency...

Coveting CNA’s powers over NASS inauguration

  By Sufuyan Ojeifo The Guardian and Daily Sun leads of Monday, May 20, 2019 titled: “Senate leadership: Legislators disagree over voting method” and “Senate leadership...

PMB’s second term: Ain’t no stopping us now, we’re on the move

By FEMI ADESINA   Those who were young (men-about-town) in the 80s will remember the 1979 hit track by McFadden & Whitehead, titled...

Buhari: Why and how he won by Garba Shehu

President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to office in a seismic political shift that swept out of office 16 years of continuous rule by...

What’s wrong with these end-time Governors? by Reuben Abati 

I believe we all have that one family member who thinks that he or she has the right to intrude into your schedule...

As CBN’s Emefiele Re-scripts the Economic Narrative

By Chika Madubuike-Onuora   Resolutely navigating turbulent seas spawned by a mix of micro and macro-economic triggers, the nation’s apex bank – Central...

Imperative of a post-election renewal of Nigeria

By Sufuyan Ojeifo With all its perceived imperfections, winners and losers have emerged from the just-concluded general election. But contrary to pre-election apprehension...

NASS Bureaucracy: Appraising Sani-Omolori’s  Leadership

  By Sufuyan Ojeifo At the level of small talk, you could hardly best Mohammed Ataba Sani-Omolori, the big, astute Clerk to the...

Emefiele And Financial Inclusion In Nigeria

By Andrew Idakwo In developing countries, there is a consistent challenge of ensuring that more and more persons, especially those in the rural...

Of blood-stained elections and flawed victories

By Sufuyan Ojeifo According to John Donne, 17thCentury Jacobean metaphysical poet-cleric, “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore...

My Atiku Abubakar Story: Between Character, Conscience and Conviction

By Hon. Bimbola Daramola Yesterday, I wrote something on Facebook titled: “Political Parties does not make people good, good people make political parties...

Of Generals’ anxieties over alleged rigging plot

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Sing-songs about the plot by the current administration to rig the February 16 presidential election in favour of President Muhammadu...

The Obasanjo Bombshell by Reuben Abati 

“Former President Obasanjo is a courageous patriot and statesman who tells truth to power when he is convinced leaders are doing wrong” –...

Ogun politics: My encounter with violence By Reuben Abati 

I once had a taste of political violence during the 2015 Presidential campaigns. In Bauchi, our convoy was stoned. In Katsina, restless youths...

That Ekweremadu’s prescription for Executive-Legislature feud

By Sufuyan Ojeifo I watched a part of the televised conversation between the deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and host of the...

Why Buhari Must Not Sign The Electoral Amendment Bill 2018

By George Obi   It is a sad irony that the legislature, perhaps the most critical institution of democracy, will initiate laws that...