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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’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

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

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

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

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

Here in Anyaa, Accra, capital of Ghana, I’ve come across some of the country’s leading newspapers. Their contents—news reports, opinions, vox pop, book reviews, cartoons, (dearth of these), sports, photo stories, advertorials etc.—give me a larger-than-life image of the Ghanaian society. The two oldest journals, Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times, Continue Reading

Sir: What most Nigerians have kept praying for since independence is for a responsible and responsive government that would address the multi various problems confronting the country. Failure on the part of most governments in Nigeria has led to a situation where almost all the youths in the country now Continue Reading

If the essence of government is the security of life and properties of citizens, President Tinubu must take responsibility for last week’s massacre of over 65 innocent Nigerians in Bokkos, Plateau State. This is not just because the buck stops at his desk or even because of what former vice Continue Reading

Is rising fuel pump-pricing, following the bungling of the crude-for-Naira policy, to blame for the change in the NNPC Ltd Board? Who knows? More on that presently. Meanwhile, the transactional temper, in today’s Nigeria, is in a sickly class, all its own. Every presidential hire is an angel to be Continue Reading