Opinion Corner

By Kennedy Emetulu If , as is likely, Prince Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the ongoing Kogi election has passed on, then a legal question to be decided by INEC and the courts is unquestionably before us, because the Constitution and the Electoral Act seemingly make no provisions for death of a candidate at this point …

More than 2.5billion people in the world today lack basic toilets and about a billion people practice open defecation. About one hundred and sixty-five millions of these people are stunted and are to be found mostly in countries like India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Indonesia, China etc. It is a common thing in most households in Nigeria to hear parents telling …

The Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocated the sum of 4.19trillion as 13% Mineral Revenue Derivation to the Niger Delta States from May 1999 to July 2014, out of which the six South-South States got N2.511 trillion or about 60% of the total. All of these monies collected by these States in the South-South have not reflected positively in the …

Constitution says there shall be 12 Commissioners and a National Chairman By Jide Ajani President Muhammadu Buhari should not allow Nigerians to go away with the impression that he does not seem to have respect for the Constitution in the area of the structure of Nigeria’s election management body. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria did not …

By Obi Nwakanma President Muhammadu Buhari’s sacking of sixteen Permanent Secretaries, and appointment of seventeen new ones to replace them seems to me a mistake. The office of the president from which the announcement of this mass removal of the Permanent Secretaries was made, did not give any real details regarding the whys and the wherefores of this presidential action. …

The media is and should be guided by ethics. At a time when a good number of journalists with integrity are trying to clean up the media profession and play the unbiased role given to it by the constitution, the likes of hungry reporters of this nature continue to rubbish the profession as a result of their gluttonous tendencies, greed …

A government that is prudent with state resources and has financial accountability will never panic over not FINISHING WELL. It will not be shaken by a dwindling allocation or economy because its administration of resources can be adjusted or modified to suit present reality. The state government wants the people to bear the burden of FINISHING WELL and still wants …

Written by Kunkle Oderemi They were an inimitable pair; more like a Siamese twin: Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo. They shared everything in common even at the days they chose to bid the world a glorious farewell. Papa Awo’s love was Mama’s HID’s’ during thick or thin, they bonded like never before. In fact, the time of …

There are unrecovered amounts stolen by public office holders (who still walks freely), and starched in foreign accounts. These monies are boosting the foreign economy, while Nigeria’s economy is degenerating. Cases such as Farouk Lawal $3million subsidy scandal, Dimeji Bankole $1billion money laundry allegation, Stephen Oronsaye N1.2billion alleged fraud, Chief Olabode George N85billion fraud, among others running into billions of …

My experience in recent times concerning electricity supply, and this could be assumed to be the same experience for millions of Nigerians necessitated this piece. I bought a prepaid meter in 2008, and quite early in 2011 the meter stopped working. Consequently, I was made to pay fixed sum till a new billing system was introduced. In the first instance, …