2023 Elections: It is time for Honest Conversations
By Oluseun Onigbinde The 2023 presidential elections have not come and gone because their memory still lingers from INEC’s indefensible behavior that crushed trust in the electoral system. If there are lessons to pick in this whole quagmire, it must be that things can get worse irrespective of what technology, innovation, or level […]
Lagos By Dike Chukwumerije
Lagos: By Dike Chukwumerije With every election (where people are really interested in coming out to vote), the ruling party in Lagos is having to use methods that are growing more and more brutal and crude to win. That in itself is a sign of a party in decline. Still, the most dangerous […]
Igi Oyin
[By Feyi Fawehinmi] An abiding memory of Nigerian elections that I have is from 2011. I flew to Nigeria to vote that year — I had planned to vote in the Presidential elections and booked my ticket accordingly but the last minute cancellation, per usual, meant I ended up voting in the gubernatorial […]
Vote Trading is not the Problem with Nigeria’s Elections
[By Ayisha Osori] When veteran politician Ayo Fayose contested — and won — the June 2014 gubernatorial elections in the southwestern state of Ekiti, he mocked Kayode Fayemi, the incumbent who had lost. “People don’t want road infrastructure; they want stomach infrastructure,” Fayose said. Overnight, he introduced a new lexicon for a decades-old […]
The Era of Renewed Hope
SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU My Fellow Nigerians, I am profoundly humbled that you have elected me to serve as the 16th president of our beloved republic. This is a shining moment in the life of any man and affirmation of our democratic existence. From […]
EiE-SBM 2023 Election Forecast
EiE-SBM 2023 Election Forecast The first 2023 election survey conducted by SBM Intelligence was published in July 2022 and showed that only 41% of registered voters had collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs). This assumption of low turnout fed into our December 2022 projections, based on a 7,000-respondent survey. The assumption of low […]
Meet ‘Yemi Adamolekun, the Global Citizen Prize Winner Fighting for Citizens’ Rights in Nigeria
‘Yemi Adamolekun is the Executive Director of Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, which turns 12 years. The year was 2010 and a young Nigerian woman, who’d just arrived back in Nigeria after pursuing a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in the United Kingdom, was undergoing the mandatory year of service that all Nigerian graduates […]
Global Citizen Prize Winner – 2022 Citizen Award Nigeria, ‘Yemi Adamolekun Used Her Acceptance Speech To Share A Very Important Message
Good evening everyone!
I am honored to stand before you today to accept this award.
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, “If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
I am grateful for the opportunity to be part of this community of Global Citizens who have chosen not to be neutral.
EiE @ 12: On debates and democracy
“We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practise or where they come from.” – Olusegun Adeniyi, chairman, ThisDay editorial board. In 2010, we protested […]
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