Speeches like this showcase the speaker's depth of knowledge, clear conscience, and remarkable ability to forecast the future while demonstrating genuine concern for their constituents. In...
The Guardian, June 16, 2025 stated that Soyinka described the national honours as a “thematic honours list” that aligned with the spirit of the pivotal movement,...
Nigeria is a country of abundance. We have the people, the land, the resources, the minds. Yet we are being ruled as if we are helpless,...
When societies emerge from conflicts and violence like the Nigerian June 12 crisis, there are rituals usually made for healing of wounds. Honouring memories of the dead and...
Jega, a Nigerian academic and former vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano. Immediate past INEC Chairman who once symbolized the promise of electoral integrity, is in a...
In the build up to the 2022 election, Governor Adeleke was consistent in lamenting the deplorable condition of road networks in the state and promised a...
Nigerian democracy is expected to grow and wax stronger given the long period of supposed unbroken civilian rule. What Nigeria has now is civil rule and...
Elections are still rigged. Votes are bought. Results are manipulated. Even in the 2023 elections, despite the use of BVAS and other technologies, we saw chaos,...
In a functioning democracy, appearance is reality. Democracy Day needs to project transparency, citizen participation, and symbolic unity. If the presidency can unilaterally cancel a practice...
To many of us, it is democracy but far from it. I remembered a quote associated with the Late MKO Abiola who was elected President of...