Opinion

Tax reform bills: The North must modernise anyhow

By Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad, Ph.D. The tax reform bills recently sent to the National Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, have generated controversies over the past weeks. Many commentators have expressed their views in support of the bills or…

No longer innocent until proven otherwise…

By Bolanle Bolawole “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the (once-upon-a-time) immovable pillars of…

Keyamo, FCCPC: Sheathe your sword!

By Bola Bolawole “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” – Matthew 5:9. Dogs eating dogs and birds gnawing at each other’s innards is one way to describe the war of words between the…

  The fierce urgency of African Energy Banks  

By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber For more than a year, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) has been pushing back against steadily building pressure to halt new foreign investments in Africa’s oil and gas industry. To prevent catastrophic…