Opinion: Can we trust the police to protect our votes?

by Uche Igwe Whether the police is present at the booth or not, it makes no difference. My fear is that they should not end up igniting the same electoral violence he is pretending to prevent. In the last few days, the Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, has been cautioning the... Read More

Nigeria Decides, nigerian police, security, Security officials

March 27, 2015

Opinion: Is President Jonathan ready for defeat?

by Emmanuel Ugwu News of a defeat will shake the foundation of Jonathan’s sense of personal identity. It will devastate him mentally and emotionally. And the wounded loser and his reflexes, at that level, will generate chaos. Few months ago, President Goodluck Jonathan had a fairly good reason to believe he will have a blowout.... Read More

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March 26, 2015

Opinion: The Confab report may be the change Nigeria currently needs

by Adekoya Boladale Over the years, sociopolitical scholars and writers of thought, in an attempt to finding the sole reason for the dilapidation and setback of Nigeria, have come to agree that the major reason the African most populous country has continued to fail isn’t just because it has bad leadership but because it was... Read More

All Progressives Congress, APC, Confab, immunity, olusegun obasanjo, President Goodluck Jonathan

March 26, 2015

Opinion: Fashola has clearly transformed Lagos night economy

by Tayo Ogunbiyi Improved night economy has positive implications for all classes of economic activities. Various people view night time from diverse angles and perspectives. While some see the night as a period associated with danger, immorality or something sinister, others see it in positive terms as the ideal time for socialization, merry making and... Read More

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March 26, 2015

Opinion: You’re beautiful but that’s not because you’ve got a fine face

by Gabriel Olatunji When you feel less of yourself because of a defect on your body you are definitely not beautiful yet. If the reason why you take a hundred selfies in a day is to validate your own beauty, I am sorry to say that you lost it and you have not found... Read More

self-confidence, self-esteem, You are beautiful

March 26, 2015

Is’haq Kawu: These elections won’t kill our country

by Is’haq Kawu “We, therefore, do not believe that a country should die because it held elections. On the contrary, elections should strengthen democracy, and reinforce national development. In view of that, we do not agree with any group or interest threatening fire and brimstone over the outcome of the elections. Nigeria belongs to us... Read More

Elections 2015, Nigeria Decides

March 26, 2015

Opinion: Did Obama really need to teach us that lesson?

by Niran Adedokun When labour unions that should fight the cause of the people have suddenly become part of the problem, things, worse than intrusions from foreigners are bound to overtake it. So, President Barack Obama of the United States of America took time off his busy schedule to preach to Nigerians, leaders and the... Read More

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March 26, 2015

Niyi Akinnaso: Have you been transformed by 6 years of Pres. Jonathan’s administration?

by Niyi Akinnaso Why wouldn’t they bring good luck to Jonathan now, when he has been bringing good luck to them for the past six years? Why wouldn’t they re-elect him for another four years of transformation? Don’t they know that transformation is more complete than change? The Peoples Democratic Party should have had nothing... Read More

APC, Change, PDP, Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan

March 26, 2015

Opinion: How Jonathan and PDP failed me

by Adedapo Adebajo True democracy negates the monopoly of power by one party. Sixteen years ago I was a teenager on the cusp of puberty when democracy was re-installed after a long spate of military rule, coups and counter coups. I can still remember the elation on people’s faces and how my dad couldn’t stop... Read More

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March 25, 2015

Bukola Ogunyemi: Buhari’s 99 flaws and Jonathan’s leadership record

by Ogunyemi Bukola Country is like an industry. It must be managed properly by people who have brain and great ideas upstairs. – Goodluck Jonathan, January 8, 2015. After weeks of intense political campaigns, Nigerians are set to exercise their right to vote this weekend in the 5th presidential election since the return to democratic... Read More

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March 25, 2015

Opinion: The mornings after the bruising campaigns

by Waziri Adio We need to start thinking more as citizens than as partisans. And we need to return to the very important work that electioneering has distracted us from. Barring another last-minute orchestration, the much anticipated 2015 presidential election will hold in four days. Presidential campaigns will officially stop on Thursday, bringing this unusual... Read More

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March 25, 2015

Opinion: Turning point – The rise and rise of General Buhari

by Seun Fakuade The unprecedented rise of Muhammadu Buhari, whose incorruptibility and integrity remains unquestionable, is not only an indictment of the failure of leadership under Goodluck Jonathan but a validation of the visionless leadership that has remained elusive of the present administration. Indeed, the rise of the son of Daura is a reminder of... Read More

APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria Decides, President Goodluck Jonathan

March 25, 2015

Opinion: The real winner should be Nigeria’s democracy

by Kayode Komolafe The air of uncertainty heralding the elections is another symptom of underdevelopment. The processes should be regular and predictable. It would not be asking for too much that this should be attributes defining the political process. By this time next week the 2015 presidential election must have been won and lost. That... Read More

Elections 2015, Kayode Komolafe, Nigeria Decides

March 25, 2015

Opinion: Switzerland, Buhari and the Abacha loot

by Shaka Momodu Anyone who denies that Abacha looted the nation’s treasury not only holds our values in contempt but does pure violence to those values. Having watched the presidential standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, campaign around the country in the last couple of weeks, noted the emptiness and the... Read More

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March 25, 2015

Opinion: 2015 Elections – Let’s do it the Rotary way

by Oyewole Rolex …posterity is the final judge of the acts of humans. Irrespective of our religious, cultural and political affiliations cum dispensation, no human life is worth sacrificing to protect these beliefs. Our dear Nation at this point has plumed into a very precarious stage. A volatile state many has posited trepidation, violence, killings... Read More

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