Obadiah Mailafia

One time Russian Soviet political prisoner and currently a member of the Israeli Knesset, Natan Sharansky, wrote a lovely book, titled, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to…

It has become a national past time that every year’s end and every beginning of January we are heavily inundated by catalogues of prophecies by men – and they are invariably men – who call…

As we enter the year 2019 – into another electoral-political cycle -- our country today stands at the crossroads of history. Never before have the Nigerian people become as divided as they…

I am not supposed to write this article. As presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) aspiring to lead the high magistracy of our federal republic come 2019, I am…

On 30 November in this column we reflected on the imperatives of restructuring and the pre-conditions that we believe to be essential for successful federations. Today we conclude our…

Early this year Emmanuel Macron astonished the world by announcing that he intended to govern France in the manner of a “Jupiterian” President -- “a remote, dignified figure, like the Roman…

My reflections on the topical subject of restructuring will be in two parts. Today, we examine the basic principles for federalism and to establish the case of building a more rigorous and…

Quintessential civil servant and technocrat Allison Ayida passed away quietly in a Lagos hospital on Friday 12 October, age 88. One of the privileges one had as a young researcher at the…

Early this week the CBN reported that two of the world’s banking giants HSBC and UBS have decided to take their representative offices out of our shores. UBS is a Swiss global banking…