Opinion

Elections in Nigeria are characterized by uncertainties, due to the possibility of election-related violence. Election-related violence may take place at different stages of the electoral process: before, during or after elections. During the 2003 Federal and States election in...

Fellow Nigerians, as we go out on Saturday the 28th of March 2015 in the presidential poll, we shall remember we all need a Nigeria where we are all stake holders and part takers. We need an equal opportunity Nigeria where...

Twelve years ago, 2003 to be precise, Odukpani Local Government Area, particularly New Netim, was a killing field.   Those who were lucky to survive the rampaging thugs who were hired to enforce the election of Prince Bassey Otu into the...

As the 2015 polls draws nearer, pundits, activist and political observers alike have been redrawing some of their political theories, projections and forecast as it concerns numerous political gladiators and heavyweights as fresh evidence and new political alignments take...

The word Almajiri emanated from the Arabic word AL-MUHAJIRIN, meaning emigrant while in Hausa, the term it refers to a person irrespective of gender, who begs for assistance on the streets, from house to house, as a result of...

Bribery has been a recurring decimal in Nigerian elections. But the case of the 2015 electoral season is well ripe for the Guinness Book of Records.   The problem took a new dimension when President Goodluck Jonathan shocked the world by...

Nigeria is going to the polls to elect a president in less than one week. Understandably, there is a high level of apprehension, hence President Obama's intervention in calling for a fair and peaceful election. This fear has remained...

Monday 16, March 2015 was just another beautiful day for me as I hit the popular Ikorodu road on my way to the office in Agidingbi, Ikeja. As I approached Maryland Tunnel, I saw a massive crowd coming towards...

Though The Dead Cannot Direct The Living   President Goodluck Jonathan is on trial in Saturday's presidential elections. The evidence against him is mounting. The speed with which the 2011 favorite native son without shoes has gone from celebrated to excoriated...

Now that the world’s eyes are firmly fixed on Nigeria, in the week of the country’s Presidential elections, some who should know better have chosen to fudge the important issues.   In an opinion piece (Nigeria on the brink) for the...