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Sunday, 17 March 2019 04:38

How to end rigging in Nigeria - Simon Kolawole

Let us perform an experiment. Let us make a Super Law that says if you are an elected public officer at any level of government, you must enrol all your children in public schools. You cannot send your children to private or foreign schools. If they are already in private or foreign schools, you must withdraw and enrol them in Nigerian public schools after you are elected into office. Also, you and your family members must receive medical treatment at government-owned hospitals in Nigeria. Your wife must give birth at a primary healthcare centre. No member of your family, including…

Sunday, 17 March 2019 04:37

Why A.I. without humans will not solve our problems - Katherine Maher

Let’s not let artificial intelligence put society on autopilot. The year 1989 is often remembered for events that challenged the Cold War world order, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is less well remembered for what is considered the birth of the World Wide Web. In March of 1989, the British researcher Tim Berners-Lee shared the protocols, including HTML, URL and HTTP that enabled the internet to become a place of communication and collaboration across the globe. As the World Wide Web marks its 30th birthday on Tuesday, public discourse is dominated…

Friday, 15 March 2019 04:34

Why Economics must get broader before it gets better - Mohamed A. El-Erian

The economics profession took a beating after most of its leading practitioners failed to predict the 2008 global financial crisis, and it has been struggling to recover ever since. Not only were the years following the crash marked by unusually low, unequal growth; now we are witnessing a growing list of economic and financial phenomena that economists cannot readily explain. Like Queen Elizabeth II, who famously asked in November 2008 why nobody had seen the crisis coming, many citizens have grown increasingly skeptical of economists’ ability to explain and predict economic developments, let alone offer sound guidance to policymakers. Some…

Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:16

Pius Adesanmi: And I cried! - 'Remi Oyeyemi

"Do not go to my grave ......I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people's lips. Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house - I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there." - Kamand Kojouri (Author of "Eternal Dance") It was not a busy day. I had finished very early from the Adetokunbo Ademola Avenue office of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign in Abuja. Ayo, the guy who drives me around Abuja when my brother Olusola Sanni was too…

Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:14

Ajimobi and posterity

Traducers are at it. Malefactors seem to be in a party. They are gloating that Mr Abiola Ajimobi somehow did not succeed as governor because his party failed to produce a successor in the recent governorship battle for the Oyo State prime seat. More so, since he did not win his senate bid. In a fight against memory, such critics want to pretend that his two-term eight years as governor of Oyo State did not exist and did not count. They want to believe it, and others ride on such a hollow illusion. After Winston Churchill led the British through…

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 03:51

In our hearts lie Pius Adesanmi, the prophet who foretold his death

“I am at an age now where I should be confident that, should anything happen to me and I quit this realm eternally, somebody like you would go out of your way to find Tise and worry about her welfare,” Pius Adesanmi wrote in a mail to a friend when he slipped in the snow and hurt his ankle in January 2017. The day he was to die, he put up a final picture, a warm smile and a note to the world from Psalms 139, that he was being held by God’s right hand. Perhaps he knew what we…

Monday, 11 March 2019 04:56

Abiola Ajimobi: Mistake or mystique? - Festus Adedayo

The last two weeks must have been very challenging for the governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi. Assailed on all fronts due to the loss of his bid for the Oyo South senatorial district in the February election, the electoral loss became an opportunity for Ajimobi to be pummeled on all fronts by those who had nursed boundless grouses against him, especially in the last eight years of his administration of the state. The social media became the most fertile ground for his pummeling; real and concocted permutations of his political fate were traded on the go like they do…

Wednesday, 06 March 2019 04:12

How 2019 presidential election was massively rigged - Femi Aribisala

“You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32). In the 2015 presidential election, Mr Muhammadu Buhari of APC was awarded 15,424,921 votes by Attahiru Jega’s INEC; while Mr Goodluck Jonathan of PDP was awarded 12,853,162 votes. In that election, Buhari presided like a colossus over the North, which was stoked up to insist on a Northern presidency. Mr Bola Tinubu presided over the South-west, in coalition with Buhari; while President Goodluck Jonathan prevailed in the South-south as its native-son. Suppression of South-eastern votes However, South-eastern states were regarded as orphans, they had no real…

Saturday, 02 March 2019 05:05

Buhari, the Principalities and Powers - Femi Adesina

Twice on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari displayed an uncommon generosity of spirit. We had set forth at dawn, shortly before 5 a.m, to visit the presidential campaign office in Central Area of Abuja. The purpose was for the President to read his victory speech, having been pronounced winner of the February 23 election by Mr Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This portion resonated loudly in the speech, and was widely applauded by All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwarts in attendance: “I will like to make a special appeal to my supporters not to gloat or humiliate the opposition.…

Saturday, 02 March 2019 05:04

Buhari, Obasanjo and the day after - Dare Babarinsa

It is bitter irony of the winner-take-all American system we have imported hook, line and sinker that the man who secured more than 11 million votes may have no role in the new government that would take effect from May 29, 2019. Unlike what we had in 2015, Mr Atiku Abubakar, loser of the last presidential race, has indicated that he would challenge in court the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari. In 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan of the once mighty Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had conceded victory to his challenger, Mr Buhari. Mr Atiku says he would prefer to fight…

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Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:46

On Yoruba’s voting pattern in the presidential election - Reno Omokri

The Yoruba proved again that they are the most sophisticated voters in Nigeria. This election was fraught with massive rigging, but there is redemption. Notice how Yoruba voters gave their votes to PDP even though APC has a Yoruba VP. I doff my hat to the Yoruba nation. They are not a tribalistic people. By voting for an Igbo PDP VP even when APC had a Yoruba VP, they showed political maturity. And it is unfair to them to say it was Igbos in the SW that gave the PDP this 50%. PDP won in Oyo and Ondo, solid monolithic…

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 04:05

Walter Rodney was way ahead of his time - Leo Zeilig

Between April and June of 1978, Walter Rodney, then already an important intellectual for his book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, was invited to teach a course, “One Hundred Years of Development in Africa,” at the University of Hamburg. His hosts Rainer Tetzlaff and Peter Lock, two radical lecturers at the university, recorded the lectures and full transcripts were made in 1984, including the question and answer sessions with the students. The transcripts and recordings of the lectures are kept in the archive in Atlanta. Reading them now gives one the impression of an activist and thinker in astonishing form—engaging with…

Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:35

Buhari, Atiku and consequences of our votes - Festus Adedayo

Now that we have cast our votes in the presidential and National Assembly elections, results trickling in in droves and we patiently await their final outcome, what next? This is a question that should agitate the mind of every Nigerian this hour. This particular election has come and gone but it leaves in its trail indelible imprints that have very consequential implications for us as a people. In terms of the setback it has given Nigeria and Nigerians, the negative cost cannot be imagined. Yes, in a couple of days from now, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will announce…

Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:32

The morning after - Simon Kolawole

If you ask me, I would say there are three critical stages of elections in Nigeria — and each is potentially explosive. The first is pre-election, where campaign rhetoric is usually a major trigger for tension. There could be episodes of violence, although they are not usually widespread. The second is the election day. It could be peaceful in the main, but we hardly avoid the skirmishes, voter intimidation and ballot-snatching. And there is the third stage: the post-election. That is usually where all hell is let loose by the losers. We have now navigated the first two stages and…

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