Solutions to herdsmen and farmers conflict in Nigeria
The scourge of killings in Nigeria has reached alarming proportions, with various factors contributing to this menace. One of the most pressing concerns is the clash between herdsmen and farmers, which has been ongoing for years, resulting in significant loss of life and displacement of people. This issue is complex, Continue Reading
The judiciary as the final arbiter of electoral outcomes: Aberrations and judgments without justice (4)
The Judgment that Shook a Nation: Hope Uzodinma & APC v Emeka Ihedioha, PDP, & INEC The Supreme Court’s decision in Hope Uzodinma & Anor v Emeka Ihedioha & 2 Ors (2020) LPELR-50260(SC), which arose from the contentious 2019 Imo State governorship election, became one of Nigeria’s most controversial electoral Continue Reading
Nigeria needs its version of America’s second amendment
Nigeria’s heightening problem of insecurity, which recently made a devastating land fall in Abuja, the country’s federal capital territory is pushing Africa’s most populous country down the rough slope to state failure. For more than a decade since 2010, Nigeria has rapidly degenerated into a country at war with itself Continue Reading
Monarchs, murder and ethnic baiting
There’s no question that whatever happens in Kano often has implications for the way Nigeria’s unending game of thrones play out. Five years ago when then Governor Abdullahi Ganduje dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir, he thought he had consigned him to history’s dustbin. He probably expected the ruling All Continue Reading
Lamido, PDP and politics of defection
Success is not by our thinking, our wish, our personal opinion, or selfish aggrandisement. It is destined and accompanied by good attitudes of honesty, gratitude, commitment, perseverance, sacrifice, endurance, selflessness, and determination. – Sule Lamido. Sir: When elections are approaching, political activities hasten. There has been speculation that Sule Lamido Continue Reading
Audit NNPC 2022, 2023; Gridlock; 18m
Mismanagement is a word deliberately misapplied by nefarious Nigerians to cover up deliberate fiscal failures and the premeditated financial operational calculated chaos aka systemic corruption when a Nigerian politician or appointee of a government, state or LGA in a Ministry, Department or Agency, MDA, or preferable Ministry, Agency or Department, Continue Reading
At 73, Tinubu in the Race to 2027
My family and I join millions of Nigerians in extending our warmest birthday wishes to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a formidable political strategist of our time, as he turns 73. This particular birthday holds unique significance, as it coincides with the conclusion of Ramadan and the observance of Christian Lenten Continue Reading