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It’s the season of defection. And I want to defect too. If only to show Nigerian politicians that they don’t own the franchise of political prostitution. That’s exactly what it is. Switching allegiance from one political party to another is political harlotry. It’s a harmful habit that does no good Continue Reading

Law, without sword, is mere words, so says a philosopher. According to Obilade, every society, primitive or civilised, is governed by a body of rules which the members of the society regard as the standard of behaviour. Indiscipline, according to the Cambridge University, is a situation in which people do Continue Reading

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is presently at the strangest pass for a major political party in Nigeria. The party is wracked by protracted and enervating wranglings from within. And it is being systematically assailed from without. PDP has lost a major, loyal and safe state, Delta State, to the Continue Reading

In a ceremony that embodied love, joy, and festivity, Victoria Ajewumi and Peter Olorunyomi tied the knot at Oore-Ofe Baptist Church, Oke-Oremoje, Okeho road, Iseyin, on Saturday, May 3, 2025. The Oyo State APC chairman,Alhaji Moshood Olayide Abas and other prominent politicians were among the distinguished guests who graced the Continue Reading

Vice President Kashim Shettima has been doing a yeoman’s job in assuring everybody of better days ahead for Nigeria under his principal, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose economic reforms have thrown Nigerians into unprecedented hardship. Shettima has undoubtedly done so, even much more than the very large media and communication Continue Reading

It is difficult not to agree that a major qualification for being successful in present day Nigerian politics, is to be shameless. We saw it demonstrated at the early part of this civilian dispensation. Then, a story was told of an Ibadan political godfather, Lamidi Adedibu, posing three questions to Continue Reading

In the understanding of ‘ethnicity as the expression of solidarity and common loyalty of peoples who share among themselves a country and a culture’- Chief Obafemi Awolowo was right to commit himself to the notion and evolution of ethnic solidarity among the Yoruba. To put it in his precise phrase Continue Reading

In a bold statement, Hon. Siju Lawal, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, has declared that only the PDP can rescue Nigeria from its current economic challenges. Lawal urged Nigerians to massively vote for the PDP in the upcoming elections, citing the party’s potential to Continue Reading

With a landmass bounded by the River Niger on the western front, the riverine Niger Delta on the southern front and Cameroon to the east, this space is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo People (Ala Igbo) of Nigeria. Apart from hard work, all other adjectives typically used in characterising Continue Reading