The mistake Nigerian leaders make is in thinking that the citizens easily forget. But that is wrong. Times have changed. With improvements in technology and other electronic devices, errors by the leaders are kept, to be served them at appropriate moments, often in harsh measures. In other words, the evil that men do, now lives with them. Some call it …

With next Monday fixed for the commencement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal hearing, a former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd.) has urged Nigerians to accept the decisions of the court as final, when delivered. At a symposium in honour of a one-time Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Chike Idigbe on Thursday, Gowon also urged Nigerians to …

Many Nigerians were intrigued by the prospect of witnessing the inauguration of the first female governor. They looked forward to Senator Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru Ahmed ascending the ‘throne’ of power in Yola, Adamawa State, in the northeastern region of Nigeria. Before the 18th March, 2023 state election, there were hushed hopes and wild permutations of the woman able to break …

President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged the police to thoroughly investigate the shenanigans that signposted the recently concluded governorship election in Adamawa State. While the state Returning Officer, Prof. Mohammed Mele called for a recess in the result announcement process, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa-Ari sneaked into the collation centre and announced the candidate of …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has criticised the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed over allegations of inciting a post-election insurrection. At a press conference in Washington DC, Mohammed warned Obi to desist from stoking violence, following the 25th February presidential election which saw the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the …

The founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo said on Sunday that he never campaigned for any politician or spoken on their behalf in the build-up to the 2023 general elections in the country. Oyedepo said this while addressing the congregation at the church’s headquarters, Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State, in reaction to the leaked audio published by …

Due to the kind of tension that was generated during the campaigns leading to the just concluded 2023 general elections, it was not unexpected that there would be some ugly consequences. Unfortunately, one of the unpleasant events is the ongoing commentary regarding alleged misgivings between host communities where you find a lot of persons from South eastern Nigeria. Tempers flared …

When the general election begins to divide us in ways we have never seen before, it is because there’s so much at stake for political actors and it was not surprising that the 2023 elections turned out to be most consequential in recent history as predicted. But we do not have to burn down the country because we disagree with …

We had in this space, drawn attention to the dangers of actions driven by petty sentiments. They can always be catastrophic. Take, for instance, the heat among the plebeians in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, in which a certain poet, Gaius Helvius Cinna was lynched at the funeral of Julius Caesar, the tragic hero of the drama. It may serve to recap …

Irked by incidence of violence, vote-buying and other forms of election fraud in some parts of the country during the governorship and state assembly elections, more Nigerians have condemned the development while calling for probes and reforms ahead of future elections. Local and international observers had condemned increased violence, voter intimidation and vote trading during last Saturday’s Governorship and State …