The job of Nigerian legislators as enshrined in Section 58(1) of the 1999 Constitution, provides that, “the power of the National Assembly to make laws shall be exercised by bills passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives”. The Deputy President of the Senate, who is also Delta State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator …

I am not a lawyer. My first daughter and first son are. But that does not convey to me any scintilla or atom of knowledge of the law and the technicalities thereof. I have two degrees only in political science and have attended many executive leadership courses in Harvard Business School, Oxford Business School, Wharton Business School, Manchester Business School, …

Politician Dino Melaye needs no introduction to Nigerians; neither is he new to controversies. His theatrics, however, set him apart from other controversial politicians of his ilk. He has traversed the country’s entire political gamut since the return to civil rule in 1999, moving from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action Congress/Action Congress of Nigeria and taking shelter …

The choice before Lagosians this weekend will be very simple to make, as they go out to vote in the governorship and House of Assembly elections. Before the residents of the fifth largest economy in Africa are one major candidate, the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is seeking re-election; and two otherwise fringe candidates who seem to have gained sudden …

President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election victory has been praised by the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). The umbrella group of Nigerian Muslims asserted that it could vouch for Tinubu’s track record of public service and decades of arduous labour. In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by its Deputy Secretary-General, Prof. Salisu Shehu, NSCIA urged the President-elect to …

Every day is public relations day. This is because the business of strategy and planning, communications and positioning never sleeps or stops. 8 March, International Women’s Day, a day set aside to celebrate women, is a good time to recognize the role of women in public relations practice and the opportunity for growth. You would agree that public relations is …

Since I published my article titled, “Open letter to Bishop Onah: Just before they mislead our chief evangelist”, I have received endless streams of feedback. Phone calls, text messages and even face-to-face meetings with respected people in Enugu State have happened. But the rejoinder written by revered Prof. Damian Opata appears to be the one that will attract my response. I …

Journalism ethics enjoins, and common sense upholds, the need for balance in information handling, conscious of the power and reach of information. The pursuit of balance underscores the position that access to any medium where information is shared is a privilege that carries with it enormous responsibility. But in this social media age of information overload, where democratisation of access …

The place of leadership in forging bonds of communality is the place of purpose and deliberateness. The leadership must be very deliberate in managing diversity and in fostering kinship among variegated people. Nation building cannot be left to chance or to the whim of anyone. There must be purposive plans and actions towards uniting the people. We cannot play possum …

A member of the British House of Lords when told that money is difficult to come by these days said he is nearly 90 years old but cannot remember any time in the past when money was easy to get. I have been watching Nigerian elections since 1979 and I cannot remember a time when those who lost the election …