HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN

“A fmr. President & a fmr. COAS & Min. of Def. would have been arrested,a fmr. NSA & a popular online publisher would have still been in detention &more would have been detained had it not been for this man”-FFK

Imo Guber: Is Our Supreme Court Partisan?

Walter Duru, Ph.D On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in one of the most controversial judgments in Nigerian history, sacked the Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress- APC, Senator Hope Uzodimma Governor of the state. The judgment has continued to […]

REVIEW OF THE KADUNA STATE DEVELOPMENT PLAN (SDP 2016-2021) AND BLOCKAGES TO BE ADDRESSED

Kaduna State

By Yusuf Goje For keen observers of happenings in Kaduna state over the past four years and counting, it should be common knowledge that a number of governance reforms have been initiated by the State government, largely driven under the Public Financial Management (PFM) system and Open Government Partnership (OGP). These reforms have been deployed […]

COP25: HON ABUBAKAR BUBA STATEMENT AT SPAIN.

The presentation of the team that represented Kaduna State at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, was applauded and contributed a lot to the success of the conference. Chairman of Lere Local Government Council, Honourable Abubakar Buba expressed this when fielding questions from newsmen on Tuesday night in Kaduna. He said that Kaduna’s well […]

Tears For Salome Abuh

Politics is the struggle for power. But the sweetness of power can sometimes be a curse. It is evident in in the needless loss of lives and ruptured peace occasioned by the do or die philosophy of a great number of players of the game of politics during electioneering. Of course it is understandable, especially when […]

GOVERNANCE OVER POLITICS

By Yusuf Goje I just wish we took governance as serious as we take politics. Politics is about power, while governance is about development. Our elections will continue to be a disaster until we shift the narrative from personalities (primordial sentiments) to developmental issues. It matters little to me whether it is APC or PDP […]

DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY – 5 KEY IDEAS WE CAN’T FORGET

It is easy to get depressed about the state of global democracy these days, isn’t it? The rise of right-wing demagogues, the stifling of the media, the continued dysfunction of state institutions. Our headlines seem to be about nothing else. But the recent Deliberative Democracy Institute (DDI) at the Kettering Foundation filled me with hope […]

OPINION : Our President Has Travelled Again – By Kassim Afegbua

I have read a couple of very scintillating opinions and articles cataloguing the numerous travels of Mr. President since he assumed office on 29th May, 2015 till date, but even at that, the President is not ready to slow down at all on this score. It didn’t occur to me that the president has spent close […]

OPINION: On the Supreme Court Decision – By Segun Showunmi

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” Shakespeare […]