August 1 precisely marked a year since I left my comfort zone in the newsroom where I was lord of the manor
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The old saying that what an elderly man sees while sitting down will not be seen by a young man standing up has been playing out in Nigeria’s contemporary politics.
1. It is a matter of record that yesterday, lawmakers and staff of the National Assembly were prevented…
He is indeed one of the most inspirational figures in modern Nigerian journalism, along with his colleagues at the Newswatch magazine
“I think this is the first and last time I will come to Nigeria to compete. If you are not ready to organise something please don’t…It was three days of travel for some and two days for others; like you are travelling from Africa to Asia or America. I have been to four African Championships and it’s my first time to have that kind of bad organisation. No respect for the people.” – Marie Josee Ta Lou, Ivorian athlete.
Those that do not have the courage of their convictions and that do not have the guts to stand against tyranny when under fire are not worthy of being called men: they are little better than beasts.
I do not recall what made the greater impression on us at the time: whether it was the profundity of the definition or his commanding posture.
I wrote the article before the Jos massacres, before the Catholic Bishops statement, before the break up of All Progressives Congress, before Governor Samuel Ortom’s defection and before the siege on the Senate leadership. In the said article, I was drawing attention to the possibility that President Muhammadu Buhari could win the 2019 elections
The consequent vigorous interrogation of the suitability of litigation as an exclusive formal dispute resolution model resulted in some alternative options: Alternative dispute resolution, among which are: Arbitration, Conciliation, Negotiation, Mediation, Early Neutral Evaluation and other hybrid processes.
One lesson that history teaches mankind is to look before leaping. When extrapolated in real terms, it means that a person or group should think, strategize, and review strategy, test run before acting or implementing. The whole idea is to avoid mistakes of the past as well as avoid being a victim of effort in futility.
Late-night statements by party leaders suggest that if the party is sleeping at all, it is doing so with one eye open. With Senate President Bukola Saraki and three governors out and a few more almost sure to leave the APC, it’s not only rice stones that the APC will have to worry about.
Its ability to hold open congresses and conventions, no matter how untidy, and shut aside the temptation to have all key decisions made in private by a few select power brokers, separates it from the pack.
President Muhammadu Buhari in Lome, Togo strongly pitched for the setting up of a regional security architecture in the West and Central African sub-regions, giving clear indication that there is a convergence of strategic interests among the countries of the two sub-regions on security.
When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nigeria’s ruling party, was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan
Of course, he also has very powerful Abuja-based political adversaries like the former Governor of the state, George Akume now a Senator, and others who want him out of office. Samuel Ortom is thus caught between a moral dilemma and the reality of political survival.
The management of Public health has remained a great challenge to all Governments across the world, especially in developing countries like Nigeria. This has remained so because of the dynamic nature of illnesses evolving on regular basis, sometimes with stubborn or even drug resistant pathogens, militating social aspects and economic indices.
It has come and gone that 52 members of the All Progressives Congress in the National Assembly defected into the Peoples Democratic Party. And many more defections are yet underway. It was a heavy and unexpected below the belt punch on the ruling APC and if permutations are correct, the fall of the APC in the National Assembly could very well be early warning signals of how the 2019 elections will be won and lost.
From the demographics we have now, the historic figures and the present realities that we know, these defections will have little or no impact on the chances of Mr. President’s re-election
Democracy requires an active media to thrive. This is because the parameters that constitute good governance, which is a common feature of a vibrant civil rule, can be measured by the level of accountability,
I must thank the leadership of this association for considering me worthy of delivering this inaugural lecture. It is my prayer that our intervention here today will lead to the transformation of Community Secondary School, Ndokwa, beyond our imagination.