Since their creation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), have always been mired in controversy and blem...
Do governments have, or have not, business in business? There are contending perspectival answers to this question used as a title for this article. Irrespective of the merits and/or demerits of any ...
Eseme Eyiboh, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity and the official Spokesperson to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, CON has strongly rejected claims by Senator Elisha Abbo tha...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most protracted and contentious conflicts in modern history, marked by deep-seated narratives and entrenched viewpoints. On one side, there are staunch s...
The original title of this musing is How do you stop manufacturing poverty in Nigeria, I got the kicker from conversations with HRM Sanusi in his take on relationships with China and our leadership Hu...
As I return to my serial on ‘The God of Big Things’ this week, I would like to appeal to my compatriots to continue to see hope in Nigeria. Why do I advertise this optimism? After serving last week’s ...
Perceived callousness in society comes, chiefly, from the responses of the government to public issues as they affect individuals and the collective. As a country and society, we are perhaps the most...
I have lost count of the number of aspirants jostling to be governor of Edo State in 2024. This is understandable. It is the first time, since the inception of the current fourth republic democracy in...
There is no exciting way to write about Nigeria’s inequality. It is a ‘boring’ subject filled with dreary statistics and data, and because Nigerians have become accustomed to the established patterns,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has lifted foreign exchange, FOREX, restrictions on the importation of 43 items. In 2015, the Apex Bank put some imported goods and services on a list of items not va...
