Beyond legal reform on power sector
By Ani Nkemjika Nnenne FOLLOWING the recent constitutional amendment assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari, the power sector regulatory body – the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, now has powers to grant states licence to generate, transmit and distribute electricity. Prior to the review, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Articles […]
The snake bite
By SIMEON MAUTIN Reverend Father Nazareth was alone in his office a day after the presidential election. He turned on the TV for an update and something on the news about the election caught his attention and flooded his chest with all sorts of feelings: bitterness, frustration, irrational fears, hopelessness and a compelling voice screaming: “Why?” […]
Youths, politics in social media age
By MARINDOTI OLUDARE THE year was 1954 when 25-year-old Martin Luther King Jr became a pastor in the Dexter Baptist Church. By 1955, a now 26-year-old King organised the Montgomery bus boycott in protest of the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in Southern United States. As a 32-year-old, he had started the non-violent […]
Soludo, one year on
By Pat Onukwuli EXACTLY one year ago, March 17, 2022, Professor Chukwuma Soludo was sworn-in as Governor of Anambra State having polled 46 per cent of votes cast to beat the other 17 candidates in the November 6, 2021, Anambra governorship election. His ascendancy came with lots of hope and expectations for Ndi Anambra, as […]
Why Dapo Abiodun deserves a second term
‘The gale of endorsement across different demographics, social and religious groups, attests to one thing: Dapo Abiodun has taken the state notches higher’
Eko e dide: Rhodes-Vivour and other stories
By UCHE NNADOZIE FORGET that he could not pronounce Eko e dide! Loosely transplanted to mean: Lagos get up. This summarises the incongruence in the philosophy underpinning his political sojourn. It is axiomatic to say: Lagos no dey sleep. Sorry, it’s not an axiom, it’s a fact. Lagos does not sleep both metaphorically and factually. […]
Abiodun: Why he deserves a second term
By Kunle Somorin ABOUT 45 months ago, Prince Dapo Abiodun came to office amidst massive hope and expectation from the people of Ogun State that at last a leader had come to truly guide Ogun to progress, development and the realisation of her destiny. The mood all over the state, at the time he took over, […]
Lagos Guber: Why Gov Sanwo-Olu deserves to be re-elected
By Ishmeal Emeka Udenka “If there is any governorship candidate in the whole federation that is supposed to win March 18 election with ease, it is Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State.” Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has without any iota of doubt brought great transformation to the state since his election in 2019. Babajide […]
A dangerous trend
By SUNNY IKHIOYA FROM the outcome of the February 25 elections, it is clear that our politics will never be the same again. Our youths have answered the clarion call by taking up the challenge to take back their country and, this is clear for all to see. Even with this, some people are refusing […]
To the Nigerian youths of Lagos
BY SOLA EBISENI TO start with, I belong to the OBIDATTI Movement with undying conviction that a new Nigeria is possible and that the combination of Peter Gregory Obi and Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is the best for its realisation. My conviction is also anchored on the fact that it is the turn of Southern Nigeria […]
Does Sanwo Olu deserve a second term?
By Chidozie Emeagwali Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu emerged as the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in 2018 and later as Governor in 2019. No sooner had he settled to work as Lagos State Governor than COVID-19 and the #endSARS protests started in 2020. These challenges regardless, Governor Sanwo-Olu implemented several initiatives aimed at improving the […]
