Ojo Maduekwe
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Nigeria
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Constitution review: Tackling sexual abuse through gender equality
Nigerians are fond of referencing the United States when discussing governance. Probably because our democratic system was borrowed from the U.S., and our constitution, whose ongoing review is the focus → Read More
MTN listing: EFCC takes its media trial to private sector
On Friday, May 24, 2019, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided the headquarters of newly listed telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc in Lagos. Prior to this, the → Read More
APC's shift from intra-party ‘selection’
I have argued in the past why Nigeria’s electoral process remains a sham that deceives the electorate into thinking that with just a voter’s card they have the “power” to → Read More
Oshiomhole’s volte-face on Ortom
The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is rattled by the crisis rocking the party. Of course, the former trade unionist with a history of → Read More
Dam’ned by the River Nile
The project manager of the $4 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Simegnew Bekele, was yesterday found “shot dead” in his vehicle in Addis Ababa. Suspecting murder, Ethiopians took → Read More
Upset in APC aimed at Buhari
This week, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party was hit by a massive defection of its members. On last count about 15 Senators, 37 Reps members and 1 state → Read More
What use is a self-seeking senator?
It is election campaign season and there’s a proliferation of sponsored articles by contesting politicians seeking to sway the public on their electability. The pattern is such that as we → Read More
Nigerian voters and the ‘every politician is corrupt’ label
In all the time that Nigeria’s former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has attempted to become president, the campaign which has been effectively used to shoot down his presidential ambition is the → Read More
Atiku: The problem with defection by Nigerian politicians
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar leaving the All Progressives Congress, APC, wasn’t supposed to make headline. When in 2014 he said the APC was the last political party he would be → Read More
Nigeria’s politics: Between party loyalty and winning elections
Observed by Nigerians across the country, the election did not only throw up a winner, it also threw up the issue of party loyalty in supporting → Read More
And the winner of the 2017 ‘Blame Game’ goes to APC
Since coming to power, Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party has blamed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for everything. From the economy, even down to the confusion that → Read More
2019 on his mind: Buhari is no Mandela
Recent overtures by President Muhammadu Buhari suggest that he’s likely to seek reelection during Nigeria’s next national election in 2019. Buhari assumed office as president in May 2015 and now → Read More
AKILIP: Akwa Ibom Assembly opens its door to the public
Nigeria’s National Assembly, NASS, is one of the country’s most obscure and secretive institutions. There’s disconnect between the members of NASS and their constituents in matters of its finances and → Read More
Biafra pensioners: Buhari’s gesture to Igbos good but not enough
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of pensions to the last batch of 162 former Nigerian soldiers, policemen and paramilitary officers → Read More
These figures explain why the north-west is anti restructuring
The North-west’s obtuse argument on restructuring and devolution of power portray their governments as bereft of ideas, uncreative and lazy. → Read More