On Saturday February 23, 2019, #NigeriaDecides2019 will be held and Nigerians from all walks of life, in the cities, towns, villages and remote areas will troop out to vote in the 6th general election of the fourth republic to reaffirm the country’s belief in democracy. Despite the initial postponement of the polls by a week,... Read More

Opinion

#NigeriaDecides, #NigeriaDecides2019, AAC, APC, atiku abubakar, kingsley moghalu, Muhammadu Buhari, Omoyele Sowore, PDP, peter obi, YPP

February 5, 2019

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#NgTheCandidates: Engendering issue-based campaign, implications for Atiku, Buhari

It is not gainsaying to opine that debates are expedient for our electoral process much more in a developing country’s democracy where mudslinging, strife, fake news and propaganda are the order of the day. The absence of President Muhammadu Buhari (APC) and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (PDP), the top contenders from an oversized number (73) of... Read More

Featured, Opinion

#NGTheCandidates, 2019 election, APC, atiku abubakar, Kadaria Ahmed, Kadaria Media, Muhammadu Buhari, NTA, PDP, peter obi, townhall meeting, Yemi Osinbajo

January 21, 2019

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#2019Debate Post-Mortem: A golden opportunity missed for Atiku Abubakar

The presidential debate has come and gone but its ripples are yet to settle. The two top contenders failed to participate. While H.E. Atiku Abubakar (PDP presidential candidate) was at the back stage of the venue at Transcorp Hilton, he declined to come on stage because his main challenger President Muhammadu Buhari did not show... Read More

Opinion, Thinking Through

#2019Debate, #NGTheCandidates, atiku abubakar, Kadaria Ahmed, Muhammadu Buhari, PDP

December 7, 2018

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Opinion: Buhari’s #NextLevel, #TheAtikuPlan and the 2019 election

According to renowned professor of economics, Pat Utomi, “Nigeria is the most miserable place to live on earth”. As reported by The Spectator Index, the country is about to assume yet another dystopian first taking over from Angola as the #1 for infant death after becoming the poverty capital of the world in 2018. The... Read More

Featured, Opinion

atiku abubakar, Muhammadu Buhari

November 7, 2018

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Visionary Leadership Or Change: The choice before Abians in 2019 gubernatorial elections

Abia State voters must be careful not to acquiesce to the same predicament London-based The Economist magazine (which endorsed President Buhari) and Nigerians yielded to in 2015 when they were beguiled by a candidate who came with promises of change without requisite visionary leadership needed for socio-economic renaissance. There is no doubt that many Abians... Read More

Citizenship, Editor's Pick, Opinion

2019, Abia, elections

October 17, 2018

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Choosing Saraki as the DG of Atiku’s presidential Campaign Council is a pragmatic choice

Nowadays, rumours in Nigerian politics most likely turn out to be true. As this article was written to appraise Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki’s brilliant and innovative presidential primary campaign, the National Publicity Secretary of People’s Democratic Party announced that Saraki has been appointed the Director General Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council by the PDP.... Read More

Opinion

Atiku, Saraki, ThankGod Ukachukwu

October 14, 2018

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PDP Presidential Primaries: a post convention review

In project management, a post-Implementation review (PIR) follows the completion of a project to evaluate if project objectives were achieved, effectiveness and lessons for the future. This is one differentiator of successful project managers/managers/administrators from the pack. However, in the Nigerian project, we often tend to overlook positive developments. We often take progress for granted. We fail... Read More

Opinion

PDP primaries, ThankGod Ukachukwu

October 14, 2018

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Why I tipped Mr Peter Obi as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abukakar

Editor’s Note: Long time YNaija contributor ThankGod Ukachukwu has become an important voice in the Nigerian political scene and we have come to respect his perspectives on the inner workings on Nigeria’s political elite. He graciously chose to explain his prediction that not only Atiku Abubakar would win the PDP primaries, but he would also... Read More

Opinion

opinion, peter obi

October 6, 2018

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Opinion: Open letter to PDP presidential aspirants

Dear PDP Presidential Aspirants, His Excellencies, here is an open but terse letter. All the 13 People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirants have converged in the city of Port Harcourt; making a last-minute scramble to woo delegates in PDP presidential primary which is the most closely contested presidential primary by any party in the history of... Read More

Opinion

Ahmed Makarfi, Aminu Tambuwal, atiku abubakar, Attahiru Bafarawa, Bukola Saraki, Datti Baba-Ahmed, David Mark, Ibrahim Dankwambo, PDP presidential primaries, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Stanley Osifo, Sule Lamido, Tanimu Turaki

September 30, 2018

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Opinion: Why I think the Osun re-run election should not be taken seriously

The Osun supplementary election in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gboyega Oyetola, the winner is an aberration. It was marred by irregularities, widespread malpractice, voter intimidation, violence and harassment which has rolled back the electoral gains of the 2015 presidential election. In a joint press... Read More

Featured, Opinion

Ademola Adelke, APC, Gboyega Oyetola, INEC, Osun re-run, PDP

September 20, 2018

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Nigeria in decline: Dashed hopes, HSBC and presidential melee

A review of news in leading international media depicts that all is not well with Nigeria, a country in decline and in need of redemption. In the pages of New York Times, DW Germany, The Guardian UK, The Economist, Financial Times of UK, CNN, basically all major Western mainstream media are articles on Nigeria. Top... Read More

Opinion

HSBC, nigeria

September 13, 2018

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Opinion: Let us not dismiss the PACT, they are the future

Social media amplifies social and political issues nowadays, making it easier for virality. Such was for PACT — Presidential Aspirants Coming Together, a coalition which was created to produce a consensus candidate for some presidential aspirants mostly young and new in politics in August 2018 for Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election. PACT has since after its major congress... Read More

Opinion

Durotoye, Moghalu, pact, sowore

August 31, 2018

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PIGB: President Buhari’s withdrawal of assent is heartbreaking

At the peak of deliberations and subsequent passing of the controversial Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) by Nigeria’s Senate in 2017, I got myself acquainted with the provisions of the bill. Given close to two tumultuous decades of back and forth, disagreements, controversies and consternations, with the South in support of the bill while most... Read More

Opinion

Bukola Saraki, Muhammadu Buhari

August 17, 2018

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Impeach Saraki mob & anti-democratic antics of Adams Oshiomhole: Nigeria’s Democracy in danger

The desperation of the chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole and raucous vituperation all over the media in his bid to promote “Saraki must be impeached” position of his party has taken a dangerous trajectory. Most Nigerian citizens are aware of the vehemence of Oshiomhole who has unleashed all arsenals in his... Read More

Opinion

July 23, 2018

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An Open letter to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki

My Dear Senate President Saraki, Greetings his Excellency; all protocols observed and I implore you to permit me go straight to the ubiquitous reason why I decided to pen down this open letter. As a person versed in the politics of the fourth republic most especially the current dispensation dating back to 2015, I have watched from... Read More

Opinion

June 21, 2018

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Opinion: President Buhari’s 2018 budget illustrates Nigeria’s problem with planning to fail

President Buhari has signed the 2018 Appropriation Bill (9.12 trillion naira expenditures higher from 2017 by 22.6%), that is our national budget into law and he has already swung into blame-shifting mode. First, he is not impressed the National Assembly introduced projects (6,403) and applied cuts to those (4,700) presented by the executive. Second, he... Read More

Opinion

budget, Buhari, elections, NASS

April 17, 2018

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Opinion: Open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby

Your Grace, in respect of your meeting with President Buhari, who is your bosom friend, who you have met severally during the course of his presidency, and met again in the month of April 2018, I wish to express a few thoughts and the position of majority of Nigerian Christians. We the Christians in Nigeria... Read More

Opinion

Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Open Letter, opinion

March 24, 2018

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#DapchiGirls: Much ado about a defeated Boko Haram

Nigeria is a conundrum. A complicated entity with competing interests. A country in which its constituent parts have differing agendas steeped in mutual suspicious of one another. Bogged down by the resource curse, the quest for power and dominance is bloodthirsty. The attempt to control the state apparatus puts ethnic nationalities at each others throat.... Read More

Opinion

boko haram, Buhari, Dapchi girls, nigeria

February 1, 2018

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Paddy Adenuga’s ‘inspirational’ story is simply a lesson in privilege

Many privileged kids don’t really understand that the greatest weapon one needs to move ahead in life is goodwill or reputation, which comes best from family or a benefactor or oneself. Nigerian politicians understand this better than many other category of people. Imagine you know President Buhari who has the wherewithal to refer you to... Read More

Opinion

Adventures of the rich, Battle for Chevron Netherlands, Oil and Gas business, opinion, Paddy Adenuga

Why I think majority of Nigerians will vote Atiku Abubakar as President

#NgTheCandidates: Engendering issue-based campaign, implications for Atiku, Buhari

#2019Debate Post-Mortem: A golden opportunity missed for Atiku Abubakar

Opinion: Buhari’s #NextLevel, #TheAtikuPlan and the 2019 election

Visionary Leadership Or Change: The choice before Abians in 2019 gubernatorial elections

Choosing Saraki as the DG of Atiku’s presidential Campaign Council is a pragmatic choice

PDP Presidential Primaries: a post convention review

Why I tipped Mr Peter Obi as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abukakar

Opinion: Open letter to PDP presidential aspirants

Opinion: Why I think the Osun re-run election should not be taken seriously

Nigeria in decline: Dashed hopes, HSBC and presidential melee

Opinion: Let us not dismiss the PACT, they are the future

PIGB: President Buhari’s withdrawal of assent is heartbreaking

Impeach Saraki mob & anti-democratic antics of Adams Oshiomhole: Nigeria’s Democracy in danger

An Open letter to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki

Opinion: President Buhari’s 2018 budget illustrates Nigeria’s problem with planning to fail

Opinion: Open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby

#DapchiGirls: Much ado about a defeated Boko Haram

Paddy Adenuga’s ‘inspirational’ story is simply a lesson in privilege

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