January 26, 2018

Still on Sarah Jubril and the future of women in politics

Are Nigerian women making any real progress towards fair representation in elected offices? The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Josephine Anenih seems to […]
January 26, 2018

Poor little Muslim girls and the lawmakers from Zamfara

Zamafara is in the news again as another lawmaker; Senator Sahabi Ya’u tries to marry a young girl without her consent. Why is this news? Because […]
January 25, 2018

EP 2 Political News in 5 JAN 14TH

Summary of what happened in the world of Nigerian politics between Jan 7- Jan 14 2018
January 25, 2018

EP 3 JAN 21st

Political News in Five is a weekly sSummary of what happened in the Nigerian world of politics. This week’s episode covers the news between January 14 […]
January 7, 2018

PNI5 Jan 7

Political News in Five is a weekly summary of Nigerian political news between Jan 1 and Jan 6
January 4, 2018

Political News in Five Episode 4 Jan 28 2018

What happened in Nigerian politics last week? 1. APC’s committee on restructuring finally submitted their report and recommendations – how far will it go? 2. The […]
February 22, 2017

Edo Decides

In Benin City after the rains, come the floods and then the traffic jams. On one such typical day, a policeman cocked his gun and aimed […]
March 7, 2016

Exposing Violations against Women

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa and Amateur Heads Productions will tomorrow premiere the ‘Silent Tears’, a documentary that uncovers the truth behind the violations against women resident in the Federal Capital Territory. Rebecca Ejifoma writes
September 11, 2022

PNI5 Sept 11 2022 – the one about Remi Tinubu’s trending video

September 14, 2022

Ghosts of ethnicity present

Senator Remi Tinubu trended for a few days on Twitter a few weeks ago because of an old video shot around the 2019 general election where […]
September 18, 2022

PNI5 Sept 18 2022 – the one about the padded voters register

September 25, 2022

PNI5 September 25 – the one about candidates for presidency & NASS

October 2, 2022

PNI5 October 2 2022 – the one about Tinubu missing in action

October 22, 2022

Health is personal and the personal is political, By Ayisha Osori

Anyone can fall ill and we do. But not everyone who has suffered ill health has the opportunity to influence health care in their country, state […]
January 11, 2023

[BUSINESSDAY.NG] Can we move election dialogue past empty promises?

The interest in Nigeria’s general elections in a few weeks is understandable but we are missing the opportunity to be more mindful about our future and […]
February 17, 2023

[Aljazeera] Nigeria’s elections have bigger problems than vote trading

Buying votes is a problem — but only because of a deeper rot in Nigeria’s democracy that it must address.   When veteran politician Ayo Fayose […]
March 3, 2023

Go: Will elections hold and who will be Nigeria’s next president?

In 2015, when presidential elections were delayed by 6 weeks, from February 14 to March 28, the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) provided notification a week […]