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There are strong speculations that the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is planning to pick its presidential candidate for 2023 elections from northern Nigeria. This thought must have shaped the early plans made by the current governor of Sokoto State, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, when he started underground preparations for his presidential ambitions…
What is security in Nigeria under democratic governance in the last twenty years? What is Nigeria’s security problem? Has there ever been and is there anything called Nigeria’s security problem? Has there been a security philosophy ever in the country? Has there ever been a conscious attempt to teach Nigerians this security philosophy assuming one…
The apex court made a pronouncement this May, dismissing an appeal filed by one of the 74 political parties deregistered by INEC in February 2020. The National Unity Party (NUP) had filed a case to challenge the earlier 29 July 2020 verdict of the Court of Appeal upholding its deregistration by the electoral body. A…
President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan has given his thoughts on the just concluded Southern Governors Summit. While berating the call for restructuring by southern governors in an interview with State House correspondents in Abuja, on 13 May 2021, the senate president asked the southern governors to lead by example. He is demanding that the…
The Middle East has probably suffered more rivalry and conflict than any other part of the world. The 1948 Arab-Israeli war was the first outbreak of hostilities triggered by the declaration of independence for the state of Israel on 14 May 1948. From that year till date there has been no steady atmosphere of peace…
When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Hadiza Bala Usman as the first ever female Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in July 2016, many Nigerians received the news with mixed feelings. Prior to her appointment, she was the Chief of Staff to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, helping to spearhead reforms in a…
It has become quite characteristic of most political parties to be rocked by intra-party crisis during preparations for major elections, especially at the state level. The latest developments that accompanied the Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in its preparation for the July 24 polls into the 20 local government areas and…
Governors from the southern part of Nigeria under the aegis of the Southern Nigeria Governors Forum (SNGF) met in Asaba, Delta State on 11 May 2021, to proffer solutions to the spate of killings, kidnapping, and other security challenges bedeviling the country. 13 governors were present at the meeting. Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo State…
Over the years, national and international courts have prosecuted a good number of political leaders who incite others to commit acts of violence that have engendered war, terrorism, and genocide. For example, a federal court in the United States sentenced Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an al-Qaeda propagandist, in 2014 to life imprisonment for what his…
The challenge of a continuous increase in recurrent expenditure amidst dwindling revenue has always been a recurring one in the last three or four decades. Now, the Federal Government has announced the strong desire to seek concrete ways to cut the huge cost of governance. This is following the statement from the ministry of finance that…
