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Looming Danger of Docile Political Opposition

The Cancer Destroying Nigerian Democracy

During the November 11, 2023 elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Election Analysis Centre highlighted the ‘need to separate the unpredictable technical failures that are due to the operational, logistical and infrastructure challenges of
November 21, 2023
APC Fixes NEC Meeting Next Week, Allays Fears Of Ganduje's Removal 

Resolving APC’s Progressive Retrogression

Addressing the closing session of the 2023 cabinet retreat for Ministers, Presidential Aides, Permanent Secretaries and top Government functionaries on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu enjoined members of the cabinet not to “be afraid to make decisions, but
November 13, 2023

Nigerian Politics Of Morbid Desire For Naked Power

One of the famous quotes of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo called for ‘urgent and massive need for moral and spiritual reconstruction: the kind which will help to demolish morbid desire for naked power and domination and ensure justice, equity and fair play
October 30, 2023
One Hundred Days After Buhari

100 Days After Buhari – Garba Shehu Writes

By Garba Shehu This week, President Muhammadu Buhari clocked 100 days away from office after completing two terms of four years each as President of Nigeria. He chose to stay in Daura to be far away from Abuja in order not to
September 13, 2023

Slavery Is Not An Option – Pat Utomi

This is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form. Beginning from age 17 as an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria I have rallied resistance against injustice. My early cry for doing things right peaked with
September 11, 2023

Good Signals From Akwa Ibom

In the most cited line from his 1983 book, The Trouble With Nigeria, Chinua Achebe, raconteur, novelist, and thinker, declared that Nigeria’s problem is the leadership which, unable to rise to the true challenges of national development, cannot provide inspiring examples to
August 24, 2023
Tinubu Sets Up Committee To Tackle Flood Crisis

Niger Delta, PANDEF And The Tinubu Presidency

I am quite relieved that the Tinubu administration has abandoned its initial plan to scrap the Niger Delta Ministry and transfer the NDDC to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). READ ALSO: Tinubu To New Ministers: Your
August 21, 2023

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