With the issuance of his Certificate of Return, CoR, by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, has three good months to prepare for work. Barring any unforeseen circumstance, he will be sworn-in on May 29, 2023, along with his Vice President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima. The […]

AGAINST the backdrop of our past experiences, it is important for us, both as individuals and as a country, to look back, down the road we have travelled and take stocks. As a country, we are bleeding on all fronts. Our history is stained with blood, strewn with the debris of our mistakes and regrets. […]

ELECTION of any sort is an intensely emotive issue. This is rightly so, because elections throw up leaders whose tenures can either improve the quality of lives of many people or lead to their destitution or even death. The huge number of people thrown into multidimensional poverty (130 million) and those who have lost their […]

Over the years, several conditions such as incompetent leadership, official insincerity, economic failure, police brutality, corruption, youth unemployment, strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU; herdsmen attacks, banditry, kidnapping, Boko Haram terrorism and many other horrible conditions, have coalesced into a national anger to bring Nigeria to a critical juncture. As Daron Acemoglu […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, as the Commander-in-Chief, promised to provide “adequate security” for the 2023 general elections. The president promised: “Your vote will count.” Securing the election and preventing its corrupt monetisation were central to the high confidence the electorate approached the elections with. To further reassure the people of the readiness of his government to […]

An estimated 87 million Nigerians who collected their Permanent Voter’s Registration cards, PVCs, filed out on Saturday, February 25, 2023 to vote for Presidential candidates, Senate and House of Representatives members of their choice. The confidence of the electorate had been massively buoyed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s, proactive adoption of technology to […]

TOMORROW,  Saturday, February 25, 2023, is upon us as a nation. Barring any last-minute force majeure, Nigerian eligible voters with their valid Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, will file out to vote for a new President. It will be the culmination of politicking and electioneering which kicked off with the selection of presidential candidates and their […]

THE Plateau State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Oliver Tersoo Agundu’s recent assertion that the Commission has “completely taken care of” the scourge of underage voters is a statement most Nigerians may take with a pinch of salt. With the presidential election just about 48 hours away, there is no surefire way of ascertaining how true […]

“I urge every citizen, therefore, to go out to vote for their candidates of choice without fear because security shall be provided and your vote shall count.” IN ordinary times, the above statement by Muhammadu Buhari, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, would not be taken seriously because Nigerians have seen a […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has continued to surprise his critics and well-meaning Nigerians with his no-nonsense stance towards the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s, Naira redesign/cash swap policy and commitment to a free, fair and credible election without executive interference. If he had adopted this governance attitude from the first days of his administration, he would […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, appears to have secured the confidence of majority of Nigerians in its capacity and commitment to ensure the conduct of free, fair and acceptable general elections this year. The manner in which it pursued the development of relevant technology and supported the process of obtaining President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent […]

THERE is a protracted controversy in the aviation industry over the declaration of it as an essential service sector. This is mainly because of the lack of trust between the employer/regulatory groups and their workers’ unions. In September 2022, that coalition of aviation workers’ unions, made up of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, […]

THE violence which followed the EndSARS protests of October 2020, culminated in systematic attacks on facilities of the Nigeria Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by hoodlums who were dubiously dubbed “unknown gunmen”. Between October 2020 and now, no less than 15 INEC offices have been hit, particularly in the South-East, South-South and […]

AS if Nigeria was not already overburdened by ethno-religious crises, evil-minded and unpatriotic Nigerians are still looking for ways of exacerbating social disharmony in the nation. They are coming up with schemes which are bound to create avoidable conflicts and possibly bloodshed. The highly-provocative news of an alleged impending plan to install one Shehu Bello […]

IF there is anything history cannot deny Muhammadu Buhari of as Nigeria’s leader, it is his firm commitment to one of the most honourable transitional plans we have seen since 1999. Last week, Buhari mandated the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SFG, Boss Mustapha, to announce a 22-member Transition Committee whose job is […]