In a few days, Nigerians will head to the polls in one of the nation’s most divisive but consequential presidential elections. The stakes are high. People are fed up with the status quo and want genuine change. The most radical elements in our midst even desire a people’s revolution. After eight years of this present administration, the nation has moved …

The Police Command in Lagos State has said that a traditional ruler in the state would be invited for questioning over a recorded audio which appeared to threaten and intimidate residents of a community in Eti-Osa area. While reacting to the audio that had gone viral, the command’s spokesman, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin said to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has urged his supporters to vote for human beings in the forthcoming elections. Addressing supporters who turned out in large numbers at the Tafawa Balewa Squash in Lagos on Saturday, Obi said that people had, in the past, voted for “brooms and umbrellas” but it did not work. He stressed …

For the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to record an overwhelming victory in the 25 February presidential elections, Lagos State must play a leading role in his electoral success, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Thursday. Sanwo-Olu said that the five million votes pledged by the APC supporters in the state to deliver to Tinubu were …

President Muhammadu Buhari has yet again drummed support for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying the candidate had demonstrated capacity and would do well if elected to lead the country. At the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, and at the APC campaign rally in the …

The Federal Government has directed the closure of universities across the country for three weeks for the conduct of the coming elections. In a letter addressed to Vice Chancellors and Directors of Inter-university centres, the Deputy Executive Secretary (Administration) of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki said the directive followed an order by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu. …

This life is full of mishaps; its paths are never smooth and straight. On the contrary, they are paved with landmines and stumbling blocks that often trip even the very careful, and when that happens, the fall is usually painful, sometimes existentially cataclysmic. Where I come from, there is a proverb that, loosely transliterated, says that the grasscutter told her …

Going by the current shenanigans around the corridors of Nigerian politics, it is obvious that some unseen hands are shaking the nation’s political jar. The black ants and the fire ants are at war. The jostling for power over who takes the No 1 seat in Aso Rock Villa after the crisis-ridden tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari is at a …

A leader in the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has maintained that the failure to heed his warnings that “crude and narrow interests of the various power centres will determine the outcomes of primaries rather than what is best for the country” might have put the 2023 elections in a critical mess that may further entrap the nation. …

Founding National Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Udenta O. Udenta is a Professor of Cultural Studies and a Distinguished Fellow at the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought. Prof. Udenta, who was in detention six times during the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha, was the Director of Media and Strategy of the Eastern Mandate Union, and a …