Voters Apathy and its effects on Nigerian society.
According to Iyayi, the third wave of democratization in the 1990’s led to the conduct of elections in many developing nations/countries. To a very large extent, elections and electoral processes shape the face of the bourgeois modern state. Elections provide the medium by which the different interest groups within the bourgeois nation state can take […]
#MainaGate and Buhari’s Faulty Cabinet
The anti-corruption campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari suffered a huge blow recently with the sudden appearance of a Former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team (PRTT) who is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for his alleged complicity in the over N2billion Pension Biometric Scam. Abdulrasheed Maina, before his appointment as Chair […]
Chude Jideonwo: Dear President Buhari, You Have Broken Our Hearts
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. I was far away, in Lagos; but I had a cherished privilege: to be the one to publish the […]
The Argument Against Soft Landing for Corrupt Public Officers – Japheth Omojuwa
The incoming Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo recently said that Nigeria was indebted by as much as $60 billion. To put it in stark perspective, we have never owed this much as a country. When you put this fact against our depleted foreign reserve – the lowest in a decade – and the Excess Crude Account […]
Oduah Scandal
Corruption and Impunity Should Not Be Tolerated The N255m purchase of two armoured BMW luxury vehicles is just another example of the fiscal and moral recklessness that exists in many of Nigeria’s government institutions. Where is the government accountability and responsibility? As Nigerian citizens we must demand more from our government. We must demand that […]