Grandiose Parlor

If you haven’t, please take a trip to Dare Obasanjo’s Flickr photoshots of his father’s 70th birthday bash. Dare’s father is the Nigerian president Obasanjo, Once you see Dare, even a blind man would know where he gets his look.
Several questions ran through my mind viewing the pictures - such as the “step-brother this”, “step-sister […]

How can a political party win an election it did not contest?
Yes, the PDP - the party that managed to pull 70% of the ballots in the presidential election was reported to have won a Senatorial district with 318,153 votes without even presenting any candidate. This happened in Ondo state, a state where the […]

Although the elections are somewhat over; the drama and intriques will continue for several weeks.
While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) pats itself on the back for a job well done, and is busy rationalizing the lapses of the electoral process, almost all the group of observers that monitored the elections scored the commission and […]

What is the definition of a failed state? Is Nigeria a failed state?
This is one of the topics on the blog African Skirts authored by Nkem - a Nigerian blogger living in the U.K. Check out the comments and leave yours as well. I have reproduced mine below:
A very interesting academic but unfortunately obtuse exercise […]

In the next six months Nigeria will celebrate - with the usual fanfare of course - it’s 47th Independence anniversary. And in the last eight years we have had two elections, what should have been the third is what commenced lasted Saturday, but there is a preponderance of evidence that it’s nothing but a sham […]