Civil society groups, including Non-Governmental Organisations are a positive force for change and progress in society, oftentimes helping to bridge the gaps of alienation between government and the people. In developed parts of the world, CSOs and NGOs have been in the forefront of making our world a much better place by helping to fight injustice, man’s inhumanity to man,… Read More

Ayetoro is being washed away. So sad. Our beloved “Happy City;” the legendary London of Ilaje land is being turned to a mere shore. by flood.  Growing up in the coastal areas of Ondo State, Ayetoro was a story every child longed to hear, an experience every one wanted for holidays. “Happy City” was a class of its own when… Read More

I do not write this piece to vex Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, The Butcher of Aso Rock, or All Past and Present Convicted Criminals (APC). FFK, as is fondly called by friends and foes, died in 2019 after he declared that “With what I have witnessed, I would rather die than join a filthy, rat-infested sinking ship like the Almajiri Peoples… Read More

Senator Smart Adeyemi, Senator Jibrin Isah and Senator Yakubu Oseni have decided to join the ongoing macabre dance in Kogi, by dancing naked before the Nigerian public on the issue of the alleged N20 billion fraud involving the state government. Though Kogi is always known for bad politics, this is the first time that senators from states in Nigeria will… Read More

Alhaji Tanimu Yakubu was Special Adviser on Economic Matters to President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. Before becoming one of Nigeria’s best Presidents in our leadership-challenged country, Yar’Adua was Governor of Katsina State and TY, as Yakubu is fondly called, was one of his cabinet members  for three years from 1999. When TY was preparing that administration’s first budget in Katsina State, he… Read More

Last week Thursday the former controversial Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) officially defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). For quite sometime now he had been hobnobbing with APC chieftains and bigwigs across the federation apparently bidding his time and perfecting his strategies toward the announced PDP exit. We knew all along as… Read More

As the world eagerly anticipates Africa’s biggest election in 2023, policy capture, process manipulation, and geo-politics are defining the electoral framework reform process as veto players exercise their preferences for policy outcomes. Within the Nigerian context, public confidence in the viability of electoral reforms to address the intractable challenges with Nigerian elections is unquestionable. Unfortunately, this confidence is undercut by… Read More