Opinion

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...

No doubt political violence is a regular but avoidable part of our partisan politics as a result of inability of some politicians to abide by the basic tenets of democratic practice. The incidence of violence is heightened during electoral...

We may know - perhaps even at first hand - of a gap in society whose presence causes pain for countless individuals.  Here in Morocco, such a void - that of unrelenting poverty - exists, particularly in rural places...

Last October after the APC presidential primaries, I tweeted these words ‘I will never vote Buhari.’ I had my reasons, the major one being my conviction that voting a former military dictator does not bode well for a democracy....

Many developing countries are beset with a lot of developmental challenges including hunger, poverty, insecurity, lack of education, poor health and short life expectancy. There is a consensus among scholars and development practitioners that accountable governance and effective public...

As the race to the rescheduled general elections get intense, many political parties have stepped up in their politicking, while front line political parties are putting finishing touches on their winning strategies, political parties who are in the race...