Let me start by giving kudos to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the great improvement shown in the Osun governorship election. Further, declaring the election inconclusive is a good decision. It is constitutionally intra vires, has ample precedents, and ought to be respected by all parties. Best of all, the election results ... Read more

In the work "Pride and Prejudice", a Jane Austen says: “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” This can best describe the comment credited to one Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, saying that Bride Price should be scrapped in Igbo culture. Much as she was entitled to her op ... Read more

He has been mercilessly maligned. He has been destructively demonized. He was turned into an object of ridicule. He became a punch bag of comedians. He was used as an effigy of unseriousness. Since he landed as the Senator representing the Osun West Senatorial District with a bang on the platform of PDP, defeating the APC candidate supported by ... Read more

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has described the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the Saturday's governorship election in Osun State inconclusive as "a rape of basic democratic process and rule of law". In a statement signed by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, the CNPP ... Read more

t's barely two months to the twenty third memorial of nine Ogons killed for Shell by the Nigerian authorities on November 10, 1995. This evil Enterprise we call Shell has stopped at nothing to push forward it's brutally against the Ogoni people. Few weeks ago, we - the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) called for inve ... Read more

I actually set out today to do a tribute to the resilience of a very young British professional sports personality (Lewis Hamilton) who has successfully carved a niche for himself as a reference point on how to experience the real meteoric rise from child hood dreams of becoming world champion and indeed embracing the status in the real life situat ... Read more

At a well attended forum organized by the Justice Development and Peace Centre (JDPC) Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos on Saturday 22[SUP]nd[/SUP] September, 2018, to mark the world peace day, the Director, Rev. Fr. Raymond Anoliefo, among other things stated that ‘no nation best typifies a country in dire need of peace and social cohesion among ... Read more