Eligible voters in Osun State trooped out enthusiastically last weekend to cast their votes for their preferred candidates during the gubernatorial election. Fifteen political parties took part in the election but by the time the results from the various polling…
Wole Soyinka speaks on Osun elections
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said those who “conspired to catapult the slain Bola Ige’s destroyers to unmerited national prominence” have been justly served by the outcome of the Osun governorship election. Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party…
OsunDecides: Policeman caught telling voter how to cast ballot
A police officer was caught on camera instructing a voter who to cast their ballots for in the ongoing election in Osun State. The incident occurred at Polling Unit 012, Ward 06, Irepodun Local Government Area (LGA). Eagle eyed observers…
Ademola Adeleke votes, hails INEC, security agencies
Senator Ademola Adeleke, the Governorship Candidate, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), cast his vote at exactly 8.50 a.m at Ward 2 polling Unit 9 in Ede North Local Government area of Osun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the…
2023: Re-routing Nigeria’s economic voyage to Sri Lanka — lsidore Emeka Uzoatu
Whoever thought the sixteen-year reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would ever be recalled with nostalgia. Truth be told, it was that bad then. So, sans sentiment, the takeover of power from them in 2015 by the All Progressives…
Too many PDP headaches for Atiku — Ehi Braimah
These are certainly not the best of times for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the 2023 presidential election. At 75 years old, Atiku knows he is playing his last card as far…
*Atiku has answers to Nigeria’s challenges – Okowa (DailyTrust)*Aggrieved Lagos politicians ask court to disqualify Senator Adeola from senatorial race (ThisDay)
Atiku has answers to Nigeria’s challenges – Okowa (DailyTrust) Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has said Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate for the 2023 General Elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has solutions to the numerous challenges bedeviling the country.…
There is acute and chronic Obi-session in Nigeria — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
There is obsession and there is Obi-session. The diff, as the advert says, is clear. The 2078-page Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language bought for me by the legendary South African poet, Dennis Brutus, in the University of…
Would 2023 elections return Nigeria to multi-sum politics? — Magnus Onyibe
It is such a welcome relief that the crowded political space by a deluge of contenders for the office of president of Nigeria is panning out nicely as the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had concluded its presidential primaries…
Tinubu’s last minute offensive — Ehi Braimah
After the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) picked Alhaji Atiku Abubakar last week as the standard bearer and presidential candidate of the party, attention naturally shifted to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as we eagerly await who would be squaring-off with…