This proposition is a reminder of how democracy began in Ancient Greece at about 500 BC. Fed up with monarchy, where one person ruled, and aristocracy that had a few…

On Thursday, 15 September, 2022, during the inauguration of a road project constructed by the Seyi Makinde administration in Ibadan, Oyo State, the then outgoing governor of EkitiState, Dr Kayode Fayemi, called for an amendment to…

 We have no doubt that a combination of incom­petence, corruption, graft, inadequate fund­ing, inappropriate policies, obsolete and non-functional equipment, pipe­line vandalism and bunkering, occa­sioned by insecurity and conspiracy, has led…

The recent information in the public domain that the Delta State Security Council at its recent meeting deliberated extensively on several security reports bordering on kingship and land ownership tussles…

 While responding to the public outcry over the purchase of prohibitive Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) for members of the Senate in October, 2023, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on…

 There is no gainsaying that this newspaper has been in the vanguard of the agitation for restructuring Nigeria along the principles of federalism. We have consistently argued that for the…

The military regimes took all the resources from the more munificent regions into the central Federation Account, out of which the Federal Government always takes more than 50 per cent that it…

Strategic consumer goods like petroleum products, foodstuffs and building materials are now imported on a regular basis. Indeed, the Nigerian economy has stumbled so much that, these days, the richest…