Issues/Policy

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, […]

Recent tragic incidence of building collapse at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, has once again brought to fore the need to sensitize Nigerians on the essence of blood of donation. One of the major highlights of […]

Nigeria has been rated by the World Culture Score Index as one of the countries in the world with the lowest reading culture, while available statistics from National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal […]

When Pompeo and his American bosses asked Lebanon to eliminate the Hezbollah, they were essentially calling for a new civil war and genocide in that country… who does Pompeo want to take out Hezbollah: the […]

SECTION 179(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended provides, “A candidate for an election to the office of a governor of a state shall be deemed to have been […]

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) says it is taking all necessary legal steps to ensure that no illegal or fraudulent execution is carried out over its court case with Innoson Motors. The News Agency of Nigeria […]

“A serious government will fix the power problem in 6 months”- Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN The problem of power supply has been one of Nigeria’s severe challenges. With the return of democratic governance in 1999, […]

With his “leadership” shinning brilliantly in “the sun” to the admiration of all and sundry, including the two newspapers earlier mentioned, there is little doubt that by the time Prof. Oloyede is done with JAMB, […]

As the battle for 2019 mandate retention shifts from the elections collation centres to the courts for final determination, it is a time to migrate from politricks to governance and economics at this time. I […]

With the exception of Rivers state — where former friends are at war — governorship elections have been concluded across Nigeria on the not-so-unfamiliar note: the good, the bad and the ugly. As typical of […]

The value that emerged from rigging and cynical “development” can only push the people further away from democratic politics. If the peoples’ votes do not count, then the values that would triumph in future would […]