Category: Leaders

What touches us ourself shall be last served.– Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) So President Muhammadu Buhari, who says he is terrified of a condemnatory verdict of history on his presidency is now so incapable, so unable to help himself achieve some form of immortality in the area of electoral reform. He has just refused to sign the electoral reform bill sent… Read More

The news dominating the headlines now is President Buhari’s refusal of assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021. While the bill includes other important provisions aimed at patching up our admittedly rageddy electoral process—electronic transmission of results, for instance—it is the proposition of direct party primaries that constitutes the big bone of contention. It is as clear from the… Read More

What does Nigeria mean to me? It means hope and promise of a greater now and future; it means resilience and courage to rise from dust and nothing; it means purpose in disarray, unity in diversity, brotherhood in divergence and love even in dangerous times.  It will be a violent lie to say Nigeria is perfect or that it is… Read More

Elon Musk once said, “Some people don’t like change but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster,” and that is a path that the Nigerian has to commit himself to if we are going to see any success in the fight against terrorism. The Nigerian Military’s tactics against the terrorist groups have been rigid while the opponents… Read More

A Person of The Year is the person that had the greatest impact on Nigeria and on the lives of Nigerians this year for good or ill.  The year calls for a president whose primary job is to protect lives and properties of Nigerians. A president who does not administer justice selectively. A president who sees a dramatic contrast between… Read More

The richest person in the world, an African-born mogul, is worth almost $290 billion. Yes, Billion.  Thanks to his entrepreneurial courage and visionary zeal, his leadership of Tesla as the top quality brand synonymous with electric and advanced battery powered automobiles and devices are changing the world!  Also, there’s SpaceX corporation for scientific research, planetary exploration and space tourism. And, … Read More

Under and by virtue of Paragraph 15 (b) of Part 1 to the Second Schedule of the 1999 Constitution as amended, INEC shall register political parties in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and an Act of the National Assembly. By virtue of section 222 (a) of the Constitution, no association, by whatever name called, shall function as a… Read More

It is now confirmed: President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2021 as forwarded to him by the National Assembly on November 19, 2021. Yesterday, there were speculations as to whether or not the President had complied with the provisions of Section 58 (4) of the 1999 Constitution and whether or not the 30-day time… Read More

A quick look at Google for word meaning presents a jungle as, an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation.  The jungle is not a barren place, the denseness of its forest is a reflection of her soil richness. Its entangled vegetation, a proof of no one tilling it. Primarily, a jungle is a place of untapped… Read More

Yoruba people have a saying which literally means a child’s delinquency which if not curbed or corrected at home will eventually be his albatross when he goes out. Dapo Abiodun, whose fraudulent emergence as the “candidate” of APC in the 2019 gubernatorial election has now been exposed not just as a fraud, but also a Liar. Having emerged the “flag… Read More