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By Funmi Branco Lovers of democracy and good governance must be troubled by the crisis in Ogun State over local government allocations. When the chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area, Hon. Wale Adedayo, accused the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, of diverting local government (LG) funds, there were not a few Nigerians who felt ...
A level-playing ground, with detest for camarilla or kitchen cabinet in a democracy, has been recommended to the presidency, as Nigeria inaugurated a new Executive Council. Making the recommendation, Dr Thomas Olaleye Ogungbangbe has remarked that the new Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria possess managerial ingenuity and commitment to effectively harness rational and ...
Nigeria has one of the highest unemployment rates in Africa. According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria's unemployment rate stood at 33.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2020 while the rate of unemployment among youths was even higher, 42.5 per cent. The NBS further says that as at the time the ...
On the 26th of July 2023, the world was confronted with yet another distressing piece of news: the successful military coup in Africa’s Niger, marking the fourth such incident in a span of just two years, following similar events in Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso. The Nigerien presidential guard took action by removing President Mohamed ...
By Dr Jimoh Ibrahim CFR The events we saw from the first, second and ongoing Cold War suggest that war is ingrained in all of us, yes, there may be no scientific proof or empirical evidence, but it is not the case that when science speaks, the truth comes out! One scientific theory, after clinical ...
By Ismail Omipidan The saying that one cannot crown a clown and expect the clown to behave like a king appears apt in situating the happenings in Osun in recent times. In this era of digital and strategic communications, the contents coming from Osun on a daily basis, especially as they relate to the actions ...
Joel Oladele, Abuja Recently, I put up a call through to my mother and after our usual greetings and mother-son prayers, she said to me in our dialect “Be praying for us o.” The tone was suspicious and I had to ask her the need for the prayer request. “Gunmen killed someone in Sabaja yesterday ...
Joel Oladele, Abuja I pledge to Nigeria my country To be FAITHFUL, LOYAL AND HONEST…,” Those are the first two lines of the Nigeria national pledge. I don't know if I'm the only one who gets emotional while reciting the pledge. I often struggle to control my tears because to me, those are not just ...
It is common knowledge that taxation plays a vital role in the economic development of every country whether developed, developing or under developed, and Nigeria is no exception. Government at all levels depends on the tax it collects to run the affairs of the State and it is the duty of every taxable citizen to ...
By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) The world is watching Namibia. To be more specific, the energy world is watching. Ever since oil and gas majors Shell (United Kingdom) and TotalEnergies (France) announced massive hydrocarbon discoveries in Namibia’s offshore Orange Basin in 2022, interest in additional exploration in the Southern African country ...
By Erasmus Ikhide Oone of the Niger Delta former Governors, in a chat told me late last year, how he accused the nation's current Service Chiefs at a meeting in Abuja of their involvement in oil theft in the region. “You're the actual pipe lines vandals and bunkers, beyond being precursors of oil theft.” In ...
By Dakuku Peterside In the sphere of presidential engagement and communication, Nigeria has had different shades of Presidents, from the docile and absent, laidback, garrison-style communication, taciturn, to the pragmatic. Each shade created the mood and tone of the presidency and invariably impacted the quality of leadership the presidency exhibited. Although not ascribing to or ...
By Ismail Omipidan In every corridor of power around the globe, there are people who call the shots. Some are seen. Others are invisible. But you hear and see their exploits. They are real. They wield enormous powers such that the real occupier of the office, on behalf of whom the powers are wielded, most ...
Reading through different narratives on social media on what transpired at the governorship election Tribunal sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital today, left me wondering how the menace of media sensationalism and misinformation have gone deeper into the fabric of our Society. That political thugs invaded the premises of the court where the ...
The 2023 Adamawa governorship election was not only tough for Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, it shocked him to his marrows. Fintiri said, he didn’t only contest against Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani, but against powerful people in Abuja. Governor Fintiri further said, it was an attempted coup d’état against him. The aftermath of the April ...
BY Dr. E.O Ogunsalu, Phd,MNIM, MNIIA There is a low level of high breed seedlings importation into the country. The land use act of the Federal Government is not helpful and has contributed negatively to agricultural development in the country. Some State Governments have acquired large expanse of fertile land and left the indigenes with ...
By Ismail Omipidan Over the years, one thing has been very clear about Nigeria and its leaders: we do not lack good ideas and initiatives. What is lacking is courage and political will to do the right thing at the right time. This is why I commend President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for having the courage ...
The Nigerian economy is built on a faulty foundation. Like all foundations, it requires considerable skill to strengthen and upgrade an already faulty one. A faulty foundation cannot support the weight of a structure, or keep it firmly on the ground. Therefore, it is only an adept team of individuals that can salvage a foundation ...
By Akeem Adebiyi Really, he stunned the keen watchers of democracy and political observers when he emerged as the only elected federal lawmaker to represent Ibadan North Federal constituency at the green chamber in Ibadan city in the 2019 Federal elections. They were quite taken aback owing to their perception of him as a greenhorn ...
Counterfeiting, the act of imitating, making illegal copies, or making something look like the original, usually goes with the intent to steal, destroy, deceive or even replace the original. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development reveals that African countries are target destinations for counterfeit goods such as pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages. Unfortunately, the ultimate ...
By Balarabe Isaac The instigated protest against the extension of the Acting Controller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Idris Isah Jere by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces is misplaced at best, at worst, ridiculous from faceless group going by the name ‘Concerned Nigeria Immigration Stakeholders’. This group should be ...
By Kunle Somorin Parroted as the man who owns Gatwick and former adviser to the United States President Donald Trump, an iconic investor was in town. His visit was fortuitous but nonetheless memorable. He had come to bury his equally well-decorated late father, Nigeria’s first professor of medicine, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, who passed on a ...
In a series of apparently syndicated editorials, this country’s newspapers – the Daily Trust and ThisDay – have attempted to lay the blame of the dire security situation in Benue State entirely at the feet of the outgoing president. As for the man who has actually presided over Benue State for the past eight years, ...
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D Real losers of 2023 Nigerian general elections are not the electorate who were deprived of their rights to freely choose candidates of their choice nor the first-timer youth who were disappointed by the Nigerian state nor the candidates who lost or won as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). ...
I was astonished to have read a statement in form of a letter from one Diran Odeyemi, who did not disclose his current designation in a political contraption in Osun State under the aegis of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, citing many unacceptable inferences why the All Progressives Congress APC governorship candidate, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, ...
