Issues/Policy

With a landmass of 3,577 square kilometres, about half the size of Abuja, Lagos is Nigeria’s smallest state. Still, it has a whopping 24.5 million inhabitants, the highest urban population in Nigeria. Putting these two […]

In Nigeria, corruption is worse than any killer disease one can ever think of. From independence till date, corruption has been bad news for our dear country. It was recently estimated that over $300bn have […]

Each group of politicians who have ruled Nigeria from 1914 have always urged those who succeeded them to do what they did NOT do! And like good copycats, each government that came after the other […]

Even as we lament the state of political anomie in the land today, it is still relevant to remember somebody’s dream, which came through 43 years ago. Although some researchers have been claiming that the […]

You are merely not what people see outwardly but who you are inwardly with your mindfulness – Yahaya Balogun “Man is not what you think he is, he is what he hide” – Andre Malraux […]

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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Africa is insisting that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the February 16 presidential election. On Friday, EIU Africa said the margin of […]

Rometty wants to see the development of a new education and career model: new collar, not blue or white collar. This means investing in skills development and responding without delays to the changing skills terrain. […]

We are a group of Senior Advocates of Nigeria who feel embarrassed and deeply concerned by the recent events surrounding the suspension of Honourable Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. […]

The sluggish progress on one of the government’s flagship policies makes it rather unlikely that the stated target will be achieved by 2020. Teneo’s Liewerscheidt actually questioned “whether [this] ‘shotgun approach’ to industrialisation will yield […]

Over the centuries, America and the West have behaved like goons, seizing other peoples’ lands and wealth, enslaving millions, carrying out genocide in Australia and America, and their leaders in the 21st Century have not […]

One thing is certain; tyranny will always have cheerleaders. When Adolf Hitler was asphyxiating Jews in death chambers, there were people who cheered him on. When General Sani Abacha was drawing blood from all who […]

Transparency International, the global corruption watchdog, issued its 2018 Corruption Perception Index this week. And the news is bad for the Buhari administration. It said that Nigeria “was still perceived as highly corrupt” Meaning the […]

The time shall come when our present time shall be recorded as a time out of mind. And the recorder who is recording and recollecting the time shall call it Justice Walter Onnoghen’s time as […]

The much talked about Presidential Debate scheduled to hold on Saturday, January 19, 2019, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, has come and gone but not without its dramas that have kept Nigerians wondering and […]

Senator Mahmud Waziri (1936-2012) died on September 18, 2012 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He was elected from Adamawa on the platform of GNPP in 1979 and served till 1983. He was a member of three […]

Exactly one week ago, President Muhammadu Buhari suspended Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), over alleged false assets declaration. In his speech at the occasion where Onnoghen was suspended and Ibrahim Muhammad appointed in […]

The action of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) holding rates steady for the 15th time in the last 30 months portrays the apex bank as one that would rather err on the side of […]