Issues/Policy

It is the norm to hear talks around the need for convergence in Nigeria’s foreign exchange (FX) markets. This implies that there is mispricing. Historically, this mispricing has always been between the parallel market rate, […]

The number of persons in the world that go to bed hungry hovers around 700 million. The hungry equally fall under the same category as the malnourished besides those whose plates may be loaded with […]

I was a little boy and Tiv dialect was evolving into the simple one we now speak, to arrest that, my village headmaster father brought tapes of Tiv traditional singers, he would explain to me […]

I am worried over rape and sexual exploitation of women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram who are in need of water and food. There are several reports of sexual abuses, including […]

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Governor of Kano State who seems to be brushing aside that retrogressive weapon called political correctness to be a significant bridge builder between the North and the South appears to have realised […]

Nigeria Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed is right: “It is what the insiders say about their country that the outsider will use to judge and condemn the country.” He was commenting on Thursday […]

Most manual transmissions do not have solenoids. Automatic transmissions, however, rely on solenoids to facilitate gear changes. Solenoids are electro-hydraulic valves that control one or more gears depending on the transmission and build of the […]

Politicians like to make forecasts that catch the headlines. Top chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress have been making their own of late. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, said recently that his political party […]

“Unfortunately, we have so many institutions now being licensed to operate. Many of them have no business to be in education. All they want is money”. -Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admission and […]

Strong democracies are built on the idea of equality, justice, and liberty. But democracies endure because citizens are empowered with the inalienable rights to freely assemble and to determine their future through a free, transparent, […]

It is no more news that US-based social media company Twitter Inc has concluded plans to establish a presence on the African continent in line with its growth strategy. Recall, that Twitter’s founder and CEO, […]

By Nkechi Onyedika-Ugoeze, Abuja Not a few compatriots, including commentators, intellectual columnists, and critics and analysts and dissectors such as yours truly, for instance, will not admit that there is a Nigerian play called “Buhari,” […]

Abimbola Adelakun 5:51 am Last Thursday saw the gathering of certain personalities for the presentation of Aisha Buhari: Being Different, a book about First Lady Aisha Buhari. The biography —or more appropriately, hagiography —was written […]

Ponder this irony: On the same day that microblogging site, Twitter, announced the decision to situate its Africa operational base in Ghana (to the chagrin of Nigerians), Pornhub, described as the world’s leading free pornography […]

It is interesting that three media houses have something to celebrate in recent times. The Guardian, the authoritative flagship of the Nigerian Press, has just released a compendium to memorialise its first decade on the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari in his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015 promised expectant citizens that he would: “tackle head-on the enormous challenges of insecurity and pervasive corruption. Nigerians will not regret that they have entrusted […]

Though it may be inaccurate to say that Nigeria is a failed state, signs that its economy has gone down south, despite spirited efforts to turn things around, are many and scary. Following are some […]

Judging by the shellacking that the Nigeria police received from the masses during the EndSARS protests, in October last year, Nigerians in their majority obviously did not recognise the police as a friend. This is […]