The trend of abductions and kidnapping for ransom as a big business in Nigeria is worrying and should be declared a national disaster. The planned, well-coordinated criminal enterprise is growing, wit...
Public procurement is no longer viewed globally as a purely administrative function concerned only with purchasing goods, works, and services at the lowest cost. Increasingly, it is recognised as a po...
After the last United States presidential election, I cancelled my cable news subscriptions without a second thought. I had reached a point of saturation. I no longer wished to permit Time Warner, the...
Public debate in Nigeria is increasingly shaped not just by facts but also by emotion, identity, and organised outrage. My recent short Facebook post reacting to The New York Times (NYT) report on an ...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a most fortunate man. Not because his policies have eased suffering, nor because his governance has inspired confidence, but because he governs a country where endorseme...
A few days ago, I woke in the night, anxious and checking the news, half-expecting America and Israel to have attacked Iran. Given this tension, the central issue is the longstanding American-Israeli ...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Power Mr Adebayo Adelabu and Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc., (NBET), Abuja “over the failur...
A national satire on beer, broken systems, and the baffling value systems that keeps us smiling through tears. JRD Tata had a friend who used to say that he misplaced and lost his pen very often. Henc...
Make no mistake: the Osun State governorship election, slated for August 8, this year, is far from a done deal. We are looking at a scrappy, bruising, super three-horse race. The current clout of the ...
By Haroon Aremu Abiodun There was no red carpet. No protocol alert. Just footsteps. On an ordinary day at the Gwagwalada and Sauka Passport Office, when files were being stamped, queues managed, compl...