Issues/Policy

“As an auditor, I used to work all over the North. You could see the vast land, but they don’t have basic infrastructure and didn’t have jobs. That was about 30 years ago and it […]

People generally believe that Ponzi schemes are primarily money doubling, risk-taking adventures but there are some that are designed to totally con you out of your money without you even knowing it. Like every Ponzi […]

(azonwuka@yahoo.com 0809-8727-263 (sms only)) Based on the myriad of queer things that we do in Nigeria, one sometimes wonders whether the outside world looks at us as normal human beings or something else. The ongoing […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria unveiled a five-year plan recently and it seems that was the first time the institution would present such “long” term monetary plan. It is not in the nature of monetary […]

Buhari is busy importing the incendiary of Middle Eastern Sunni/Shiite conflagration into Nigeria. The decision of the Nigerian government to proscribe the Shi’ite Islamic Movement In Nigeria (IMN) and to declare it officially as a […]

Recently, we expressed some worries over the possible path the 9th National Assembly would thread in the present dispensation. We were worried because for a nation that is desirous of building its institutions to such […]

The discourse, this week, relates to the implications of the CBN Governor’s plan for banks “to increase their capital base above the present N25bn”, which, incidentally, was equivalent to $195m (N127-N130=$1) in 2004, but has […]

Nigeria is dangerously dancing on the brink of complete collapse and unimaginable catastrophe. Ethnic chauvinism and ethnic strife are on the ascendancy. The cloud of doom is hovering over the present and future of this […]

(tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) The invite should have read, “State Banquet for Billionaire Rulers,” but because the general election was nearby, and they wanted calmness among the sheepish masses, whose commonwealth they stashed away in billions, the invite […]

Anybody who is interested in studying the quality of leadership in Nigeria and why our country is perpetually stuck in underdevelopment would have learnt a great deal from the screening of ministerial nominees by the […]

On Sunday 21st July, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the killing of 37 people by suspected bandits in Sokoto State. “This frequent and large scale killings of poor villagers by gangs of mass murderers must […]

N46 billion worth manhole covers pile away as a three-year-running court case lingers; internal politics stalled alternative measures by the Federal Capital territory Administration (FCTA) department and all the while, gaping hazards litter the federal […]

President Buhari’s new cabinet is a reflection of the unfortunate degeneration of Nigeria’s political process to a criminal franchise of power purchase, through vote buying for self service via state capture, within the corrupt framework […]

Working as a political appointee in Nigeria is merely an exercise in extreme perfunctoriness. I doubt if those who accept these offices, those who offer them and those who “screen” and confirm the appointees, are […]