Opinion

THE resounding victory of the incumbent Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, at the 2015 governorship elections; has not only broken the fabled second term jinx, but has truly sounded the death knell for the much-touted and celebrated Amala politics (politics of stomach infrastructure) in the state.

REALITY has finally dawned on all, after the excitement of the 2015 historic presidential election.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a great party. It is still a great party, but more instructively, great in the nostalgic sense of what rose from a political party founded on nationalist ideals in the wake of Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999, to a behemoth at the prime of its glory in 2007 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was winding up his tenure in office.

NOTWITHSTANDING the offence committed, the recent summary dismissal of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, by President Goodluck Jonathan, without any disclosed official reason, is truly hard to swallow; for it is another display of executive fiat that could undermine the sensibilities of Nigerians.

I WAS doing my post-graduate studies in the United States in the winter of 1978 when the first in the TV series of Alex Haley’s book, Roots, was on air

GIVEN the danger they constitute to the economy in general and the banking industry specifically, chronic debtors deserve the shame posture, which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is now adopting. The banking industry is too crucial to the economy for the kind of abuses currently believed to be going on in that sector

THE group of seven most developed nations, including Canada, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Italy, guard their fortunes jealously.

IN my first cursory study of the voting graphics of the 2015 presidential election, I had been struck by the three distinct patterns that stood out in bold relief.

MY sources of inspiration for this piece are The Guardian Editorial, April 15, 2015, titled: “The end of hate”, and Dr. Jide Oluwajuyiton’s piece in The Nation of April 16, 2015 titled: “In defence of Oba Akiolu of Lagos”

SIR: On May 10, 1994, the world, and indeed Africa, gathered to celebrate a country, which was independent, but had been in dire thirst for freedom. That was the day South Africans witnessed the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as the first black South African president. That day signaled an end to apartheid, an end to…