Looking for good conscience in public service
Nigeria is a good reference point that good conscience cannot be legislated into existence in the conduct of public affairs. No matter how beautifully...
Is this new wave of prosecutions for real?
Our courts were on overdrive this past week, churning out interesting rulings and judgments. In Kano, the court ordered the former governor of Jigawa...
Political sinfulness and governance miracles
Nigeria is an interesting country and its people are even more confounding. Our love for and belief in miracles is unparalleled. The word ‘paradox’...
Waiting for the long-awaited list
Very few people, if any, saw this long wait coming. There has been an unsettling wait for the composition of the executive council to...
Now that we are broke
It is no longer in doubt that our country is broke. Not just the federal government, but the component units (states and local governments)....
A case for non-violent elections
After more than one week of mainly negative campaigning by the two major political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives...
Dear ‘Sin-ator’, you are losing us
Dear Sin-ator,
I hope this mail meets you well. I am fairly certain it has, for you have a way of always being well or...
The V-Day that never was
If all things had gone the way we initially planned, on this day, we would have been reviewing how the 2015 general elections started...
Leave judiciary out of your politics
I have often said that, to the Nigerian political class, nothing is too sacrosanct that it cannot be sacrificed on the altar of politics....
More insights on the Code of Conduct Public Officers
It is not for nothing that the Code of Conduct for Public Officers under the Nigerian Constitution restricted certain officers of state from maintaining...
