Editorial

How did the Nigerian nation get to this traumatic stage, where power supply has gradually become non-existent? Because the various military administrations before 1999 were purely an aberration, unaccountable and wayward, one cannot really place them in the context of this critical analysis. Therefore, from the regimes of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan to the present time of Muhammadu …

In a country where the laws really work, Saraki and his likes will not be walking the street free by now, talk less of presiding over the people’s business. And look at those showing solidarity for the senator – birds of the same feather. It is a show of shame for the Nigerian senators to stand by him, instead of …

Without any bias against the Republican Party, it is noteworthy that Trump’s uncivilized, unguarded and explosive utterances both during debates and electioneering campaign are unequivocally deeply rooted in the party’s rhetoric of “we want our country back” – a slogan that bears all the hallmarks of racial divide, concocted by the party’s leadership since a black man, Barrack Hussein Obama …

My fight against godfatherism is a fight for development; my fight against godfatherism is not borne out of disrespect, it is borne out of my commitment that in a democracy, only the people shall be king’’- Adams Oshiomhole, quoted in Nowinta’s Book, 2012: Conqueror of the godfathers (page 72).   Are the people really the King now or Oshiomhole, himself …

Where was Comrade Oshiomhole when the innocent people of Edo state were being brutalized and terrorized by EDSTMA maniacs who threw caution, decency, modern traffic procedures and humanness to the winds while running their questionable enterprise? There is no doubt that the Governor, who prides himself as an advocate of social justice waited for too long to act decisively, once …