Perspectives
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Labour Party may end up like APGA – a failed experiment, By Fredrick Nwabufo
It may just be a bubble. A phantasm. An ignis fatuus. A castle on quicksand. It may not take long before the house caves in. The Labour Party electoral rendition is a thrilling experiment of what could be; of political possibilities, of change, but it appears the party is doomed to crumple under the weight of its own afflictions and…
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The legal fireworks start, By Bolaji Adebiyi
It is commendable that those who are dissatisfied with the outcome of the presidential election held on 25 February have decided to approach the court for a judicial review of their grievances. That is how it should be as the law establishing the electoral process envisages that disputes could arise along the way, consequently providing for the legal avenue to…
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I refuse to give up on INEC
Please permit me to start with response to a twist and contortion done by the lying online medium called Sahara Reporters to my article last week. I had written under the headline, For PMB, it’s Nigeria or Nothing, and the point I made was that President Muhammadu Buhari had given the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) all that it needed…
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Obidient and a journey into understanding, By Dare Babarinsa
The presidential election 2023 may go down in history as one that was most strategically fought among the three leading contestants. I will rely mainly on the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which is being disputed by the first runner up, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice-President, who ran on the platform of the Peoples Democratic…
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At 5th UN conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Buhari drums up support for Tinubu’s presidency, By Garba Shehu
President Muhammadu Buhari just returned from the 5th United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Doha, Qatar. The Conference featured an opening ceremony, the Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Establishment of the Group of LDCs, General Debate, Eight (8) High-level Thematic Roundtables, and series of side events on priorities of the Doha Programme of Action (DPoA). The objective…
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Our indifference to railway crossings, traffic safety rules, By Bamidele Johnson
Awful day in Lagos. A train slicing through a BRT bus, reportedly leaving many injured and a few confirmed dead, is a tragedy that may get worse for us, collectively and individually, if the death toll rises and/or permanent disabilities ensue. I do not have the details of how the accident happened, but I strongly suspect that the bus driver…
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The incidence of Babar Mai Fura, Hausa women and International Women’s Day, By Abdallah Adamu
His name was Sadik. Perhaps about 11 years old. He walked into my newly allocated office in the old Mass Communications building of Bayero University Kano (Nigeria) in 2013. I was startled. He was a tiny boy, deep dark skin, beautiful face with intense eyes and dolphin smile. He asked if I wanted to buy Fura (steamed millet balls blended…
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The Lagos-New York-London Echo Chamber, By Ebenezer Obadare
Across the Western media, the outcome of Nigeria’s just concluded general election has been both shocking and disappointing. While the shock owes to the triumph of candidate Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC)—a contender the Western press had given next to no chance of winning—disillusionment at the outcome is attributable to the conviction that, being an icon of…
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A closing argument for Sanwo-Olu, By Temitope Ajayi
The choice before Lagosians this weekend will be very simple to make, as they go out to vote in the governorship and House of Assembly elections. Before the residents of the 5th largest economy in Africa are one major candidate, the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is seeking re-election; and two otherwise fringe candidates who seem to have gained sudden…
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President-elect Apamaku! By Eniola Bello
Sometime in May 2002, the City Colleges of Chicago presented the distinguished alumnus award to the then Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the nomination of his alma mater, the Richard J. Daley College, one of the seven institutions that make up the city colleges in that American city. Reading Tinubu’s citation at a side event of the institutions’…
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