Those who don’t vote have no right to complain about governance – Lagos Deputy Gov

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, on Saturday cast his vote at Polling Unit 02, Ward D, Oke Balogun, Epe, with a charge to citizens to always be part of the electoral process by making sure that they vote the right people into political offices. Hamzat, speaking after casting his vote in Epe during […]

Nigeria: Situational Tribalists And A Naïve Populace

I have said it so several times that when Nigerian politicians converge to map out plans for acquiring power, which, in most cases, practically translates to securing unlimited access to unearned wealth, they do not usually remember that they came from different ethnic blocks. At such gatherings, they will all think alike, talk with one […]

NIGERIA: A CIVIL RULE, NOT A DEMOCRACY

Nigerian democracy is so only in name. Going by the most basic definitions, Nigerian democracy is not anywhere near a political system that can be described as a democracy. Let us look at the most basic denominators of a democracy. For starters, democracy is government by the people; a form of government in which the […]

2023 in the eye of COVID-19

Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of the world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections are billed to hold in Nigeria in 2023, in line with constitutional provisions. If, in the worst-case scenario, COVID-19 subsists beyond 2022, what then does the future hold for the […]