Dialogue With My Country

Dialogue With My Country

Time for issues-based politics

During the Ibrahim Babangida transition to civil rule programme, we, at Newswatch magazine, believed that the emerging post-Babangida third republic p

High governance cost and the deficit of the will

The cost of governance in our country has always been way beyond the capacity of successive federal and state administrations to cope with. No one can

Narrowing the frontiers electoral criminality

The national assembly is currently holding public hearings into a bill to create Electoral Offences Commission. Such a public hearing is an important

Time to end the ASUU strike

Once again, negotiation between the federal government and ASUU went nowhere last week. Matters have gone from bad to worse. Last week’s meeting was t

NBC and the arrogance of power

The Nigerian Broadcast Commission, NBC, recently laid the cane across the back of Trust Tv and two other private television stations in the country fo