Issues/Policy

How time flies! One can hardly believe that democracy in Nigeria has clocked twenty years uninterrupted since 1999. But looking back, how successful has it been and what have Nigerians really achieved as dividend of […]

The lessons of Nigeria’s Elections 2019 to which I refer here are not abstract lessons-in-general or lessons-for-all-time, but concrete lessons that emerged for the use of political forces on the Nigerian Left that see the […]

Members of the Federal House of Representatives will be leaving behind an important legacy, if they pass the CAMA Bill (for presidential assent) before the expiration of the 8th Assembly. The lawmakers have a lot […]

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State will end his tenure on May 29, 2019, and there is nothing wrong with that. The only problem is that his critics say that the losses the All Progressives […]

The old squirrel, according to an ancient Edo riddle, habitually sips from the gourd of iniquities. His lineage is forbidden from eating the palm kernel near its warren. But out of ancestral curse, the duplicitous […]

The life of a cat in Europe is much more valuable and protected than the life of a Nigerian living in Nigeria. In fact, there is a European convention for the protection of pet animals. […]

Henry Boyo (lesleba@lesleba.com) Regrettably, banks seem to perceive customer deposits as a burden, which must be taxed, rather than the actual base on which their total lending and ultimate profitability is primarily predicated. For example, […]

While some Nigerians are proud of their country, most bemoan their citizenship for many reasons. Many people have adduced tribalism, religion, zoning, class, gender, age, and resources mal-allocation as the causes of our lack of […]

This week’s write up was prompted by a Nigerian “health tourist” eager to explain to me the advantages of spending millions of his hard-earned naira for medical treatment in London. He said: “First of all, […]

Azuka Onwuka The news that Nigeria was rated as the sixth most miserable country has been on the lips of many Nigerians since the weekend. As usual, politics was brought into it, as anybody who […]

Into the future Dr. Hållén and his colleagues in the English and Creative Writing Department of Elizade University will be collaborating on digital publishing and street literature in Africa in general and in Nigeria in […]

Such was his versatility that after he joined the United Nations, he worked in agencies with very different and quite complicated mandates, like the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […]

Just recently, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (the “FIRS”) suspended its very controversial mandate to banks. The Mandate appointed banks as collecting agents, authorising them to freeze taxpayers’ accounts for alleged tax default (“Freeze Mandate”). […]

Since independence, Nigeria has conducted elections under different scenarios with the hope of improving on past electoral processes and procedures. We have had elections conducted under parliamentary and presidential systems of government and under military […]

In Nigeria or African generally, septuagenarian or octogenarian ages are like a double edged sword. It could be a curse or a blessing to someone depending on how he utilizes this special favour from God […]

Fitch, a global credit rating agency, says missed contracted services payments by Visionscape Sanitation Solutions have not affected the positive economic ratings of Lagos. In a statement released on Saturday, Fitch said the state’s B+/(AA+(ngn)/ […]

Politics as they say, especially in Africa, is sometimes a game of betrayal, destruction of lives and property, violence and do-or-die affairs. This is because human beings are organically very selfish and brutal in nature, […]