The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Agboola Ajayi, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of bias following reports of delays in the voting process across parts of the state. Speaking to reporters after casting his vote, Ajayi expressed frustration over the slow process, which he claimed was a deliberate ef...
The parliamentary system is the best way to stimulate development and resolve the perennial Nigerian crisis. This sums up the message of the recent 426-page book by Chris O. O. Biose, entitled Stop Zoning: Restructure Nigeria, published in December 2023. The book written by an erudite scholar and polemicist robustly illuminates the centrality ...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has approved an extensive census of schools in Nigeria from primary to tertiary level, their conditions and live-in facilities, proximity to one another, and educational infrastructure among other data points. The stocktake would also include ascertaining the number of all teachers in Nigeria, their qualifications...
•Segun Arinze and Stan Nze Afamefuna: The Nwa Boi Story, which boasts as the first feature-length film on the Igbo apprenticeship system landed on Netflix yesterday, Friday, March 29, 2024. The significance of Afamefuna: The Nwa Boi Story film is the revitalisation of a community’s economy by allowing successful Igbo men to pass on their [&hel...
Obaship system in Ibadan Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State in the Southwestern part of Nigeria is an ancient Yorùbá city founded by warriors. But unlike other Yorùbá towns and villages, Ibadan has an age-long unique obaship system, reports Saturday Tribune. Maybe not totally strange, but Ibadan has further validated the state as a [&hellip...
•Onaiyekan His Eminence, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has said that it’s time for Nigeria to change to a system of government that would reduce corruption and bring government closer to the people. The Emeritus Catholic Bishop of Abuja stated this at a policy dialogue on a new governance structure for Nigeria, organised by the Abuja School [&helli...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has agreed to collaborate with a group of House of Representatives members pushing for a return to the parliamentary system. The 60 federal lawmakers, led by Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, had met with the ACF yesterday with the aim of garnering support for their proposed legislation transitioning from the...
•Agbakoba Former President of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, speaks to a number of issues plaguing the nation, asking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to shake up the polity with more tough decisions, this time aimed at cutting down cost of governance. He says Tinubu should kick out 38 ministers, aides and other […]
The pan socio-political organisaÂtion, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), has said that the transition of the parliamentary system as proposed by 60 House of RepreÂsentatives members should take off in 2027 and not 2031. According to the organisation, the speculation in some quarÂters that the transition should be done in 2031 when President Bola Tinubu...
•Dantata Elder statesman Alhaji Aminu Dantata has thrown his weight behind the move to transition from a presidential system of government to a parliamentary system. Dantata, while speaking on the development today, said the parliamentary system is better than the presidential system of government because it is cheaper, reports Vanguard. The n...

