I am sure that in the past few years the name Hadiza Bala Usman has been consistently ringing a bell. Her heritage of being the daughter of that fiery and popular Nigerian historian, Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman, who led several struggles for the emancipation of the downtrodden, is deeply rooted in [...]
Last week, I treated the issue of the cost of governance in Nigeria as it further drowns the resources of the country, specifically drawing the attention of the President on the need to urgently tame this monster (See my column in the Daily Sun of 22nd September 2022 “Cost of [...]
On September 22, 2022, I wrote in this column on the cost of governance as Nigeria’s albatross. In that discussion, I alluded to various ways and means by which we fritter away the scarce resources of the nation. Past administrations kept telling us that the country was broke while profligacy [...]
Much ink has been spilled on the campaign for the independence of the judiciary. It is a cliché that, for the rule of law to prevail in any society, its judiciary must be independent and this further emphasizes the doctrine of separation of powers as concentration of all powers of governance [...]
At the conception of this edition, the title I assigned to it was, ‘BUHARI: THANK GOD IT IS OVER”. In the course of writing the content, it suddenly dawned on me that I might appear judgmental at the end of the discourse, though not intended. Again, I also realized the divine admonition [...]
Today, I am discussing a topic that is very dear to my heart and which is the bedrock of my sustenance. This is simply the role and perception of the judiciary in our country. I am undertaking this excursion, so to say, having written so much on the subject over time, [...]
My intervention today is in a foreign land and what lessons we can learn from the recent coronation of the new King of England, Charles III. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the tail end of last year, the whole world had been expectant of witnessing the emergence of [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (the Commission) is the body set up to conduct elections into the various elective offices in Nigeria exempting those of the state local government councils in the country. It is a body meant to be independent and impartial, as the name suggests, in the conduct of [...]
The holy books say that there is time for everything in life. There is time to live and there is time to die. There is time to laugh, and there is time to cry. Just as in weather, there is the dry spell and there is the rainy season. There is [...]
Last Sunday, on my Twitter page, I engaged my readers on the incubus and succubus of quota system and federal character rearing their ugly heads into our polity again. I consider it worth the time and effort to agitate the issue here again as it is central to our development as [...]