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IN less than two weeks, precisely February 14, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, will go to the polls to elect the president. The election is perhaps the most closely contested since its

THE long awaited 2015 general election has finally come. Exactly one week and five days from today, being February 14, the first leg of the elections, comprising the presidential and National Assembly

AS with practically all members of my generation, the first country outside Nigeria that I was made aware of, was Ghana. It was difficult not to take notice of Ghana, which had

TOWARDS the end of last year, the All Progressives Congress (APC) raised an alarm and alleged that there were subterranean moves by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the presidency and its cohorts

IT is good to appraise the state of peace in Oyo State, as opposed to what it was before now. The world knows that the state was a bedlam before Governor Abiola

IN traditional African societies, marabouts are diviners who seek to predict the future. Several African leaders have employed these futurologists, and it is important to apply their methods in reviewing Africa in

THE furore provoked by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s qualification for the imminent presidential election has assumed national and international dimension by reason of the fact, first, that the office of president is the

GREAT minds think alike. It was during our neighbourhood meeting at my residence in Lagos that one of our members, Mr. Dominic Ottih, a worker of one of the oil companies who

BY the time the Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose published his so-called “Death Wish” newspaper advert on Monday January 19, titled “Will You Allow History to Repeat Itself? Enough of State Burials,”

READING through a syndicated story without a by-line in the dailies last week, I marveled at the ridiculous attempt by the governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, to revise history. For those