Issues/Policy

At the end of the extraordinarily tumultuous weeks in Nigeria’s politics, one thing is at least clear: After all the elections hullabaloo, Nigeria remains one indivisible nation. All the fear of crisis was swept away […]

Doing by recent reports, the nation’s microfinance landscape is about to change following the nod by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the establishment of a National Microfinance Bank. The new financial institution is a […]

There is no gainsaying the fact that corruption is very endemic in Nigeria. Otherwise, the menace will never have featured in electoral campaigns in this part of the world. If there is no corruption, there […]

At last week’s stakeholders’ meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board held at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, a mug, which its Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, described as a ‘magic cup’, was given to participants. […]

I know I shouldn’t encourage your tendency towards cynicism, but this is one instance where an exception would be permissible. If you felt that the upcoming elections present a Hobson’s choice of sorts, I understand. […]

Reno Omokri, former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says the claim that N1.3 trillion was stolen between 2011 and 2015 was untrue. In a statement on Tuesday, Omokri said the claim by Ibrahim Magu, acting […]

A recent survey by Afrobarometer, a pan-African research network, says more than one-third of the African population has considered migrating from the continent. The survey, published on Tuesday, drew data from 45,823 interviews across 34 […]

The federal government yesterday inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee to investigate the causes of building collapse in the country with a view to arresting it. Inaugurating the committee, the minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya […]

ENUGU- OIL magnet, publisher and winner of Anambra South Senatorial district election, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah has denied stories making the rounds that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ubah has recently been […]

ABUJA – The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, will on Wednesday, commence hearing on the petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the […]

One of the many unsavoury conclusions from the last general elections describes how little is the progress we have made since our last collective visit to the polls. In 2015, card readers were simultaneously the […]

I learnt so much from reading Pius’s work. I learnt from our conversations, and I learnt from just observing the way he related to Africans, high and low, and to African institutions. I am indebted […]

It is with the deepest grief that the Anambra State Government received the news of the untimely passing away of our very own world-class curator, poet, educator and critic, Okwui Enwezor. The inimitable Okwui Enwezor, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government must end involvement of military in elections in Nigeria in order to stem incessant killings and other forms of criminality allegedly perpetrated by soldiers in some parts of the country, […]

In nineteen eighty four, when we all stood in awe of Decree Four, to differ from officialdom as represented by Nigeria’s military junta headed by Muhammadu Buhari was a perilous path to perdition. The soldiers […]

The Nigerian general elections have come and gone. Baring litigations and other incidentals, in June this year, a new set of National Assembly members would be sworn in. Interestingly, the ninth Assembly would boast of […]

In the peculiar political lunacy season in Nigeria, a lot of uninformed commentaries have taken the open space. One of the issues the mostly spiteful commentators ranging from an intellect-damaged professor to yahooligans and internet […]

Femi Asu The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said the obligation to ensure that all electricity consumers have meters remained with the electricity distribution companies under Meter Asset Provider Regulations 2018. “This is consistent with […]

Young people, because they are young, have no room for niceties, or even for nice-ness. When they speak, they speak from the heart, in a direct and blunt manner, not caring whose ox is gored. […]