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Non-oil export to the rescue?

On February 27, 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor, Godwin Emefiele announced the RT 200 FX Programme in continuation of his drive to diversify the nation’s revenue base.Not a few gave theprogramme a chance. The initiative was birthed to solve the revenue quagmire occasioned by the volatility of international price of crude oil. Nigeria ...

Osun Tribunal and PDP’s panicky response to Reality

Redefining mass literacy in Obioma

Nasarawa: Addressing emergencies through enhanced response mechanism

Confronting terrorism in the Lake Chad Basin: The Multinational Joint Task Force in perspective

Why Nigeria may be in danger – Fani-Kayode

2023: Battle between intemperate language, fake news and judicial rascality

By Dakuku Peterside The 2023 elections in Nigeria bring with them hopes and fears, expectations, and optimism for a better future. However, forces are fighting inadvertently to truncate the elections, imperil our nascent democracy, dim the light, and bring all our political calculations to nothing. These seemingly imperceptible forces are powerful, subtle, and distinct but ...

On Buhari, Sanwo-Olu’s economic prescriptions

Adewale Kupoluyi The 2022 Lagos International Trade Fair has offered another opportunity to take a closer look at the nation’s economy as key players in the both public and private sectors were able to identify major challenges and proffered solutions on how things can get better. For the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, the trade fair ...

Curbing export rejects through improved standards

International trade is vital to the growth of any economy. Nigeria’s economy has been largely serviced by foreign exchange earned from crude oil sales. The present administration, on various occasions, has vowed to continue to move the country away from monolithic economy to one in which foreign exchange is earned from diverse sources. Speaking at ...

Regulating social media to guide youths towards peace building

Can the social media space be regulated in a manner that it will give young people the opportunity to unleash positive energy on the society without stifling their voices? Experts say it is possible. Youths constitute the bulk of those who use the social media space for interactions, empowerment and self-actualisation. They have leveraged advancements ...

Madam Finance Minister, why?

These are indeed interesting times. The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria’s announcement to redesign the Naira. The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning distancing herself publicly from the CBN Governor’s decision. Few days later, President, Muhammadu Buhari told bewildered Nigerians that he gave the CBN Governor the approval to carry out the reissue. From ...

2023: Manifestos that will not manifest

By Dakuku Peterside . We are in another election season. Political parties, jobbers, and candidates deploy everything to convince innocent voters that they mean well and have a clear agenda to transform society. Most people - con artists, comics, and patriotic citizens - attempt to present what they intend to do when elected to office. ...

Taking proactive measures to prevent deaths related to flood disaster

This flooding disaster has taken away all I have and now I’m without a family,” says Mr Bernard Achonu, an indigene of Isiala Mbano in Imo State who resides in Nputu community, Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA), of Anambra, Nigeria. He lost his wife and three children age two, four and six in a boat ...

Flood, passivity, and a ruined future

By Dakuku Peterside. This year, 2022, the floods seem to have united different parts of the globe. The World Bank report estimates that 1.18 billion people or 23% of the world population face significant flood risks. The floods have hit 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states and impacted around 1.4 million people, according to the Ministry of ...

On the 2023 budget

Adewale Kupoluyi Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2023 appropriation bill to the National Assembly. Record shows that N20.5 trillion (or $47.3 billion) was the proposed expenditure by the Federal Government to run the economy in 2023, which reflects the huge needs that exist in critical sectors of the economy. The proposed budget, which is ...

Analysis: Dr. Benedict Oramah provides thoughtful, balanced insights into Africa’s Energy Future

By NJ Ayuk, Chairman, African Energy Chamber Ahead of the November 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (more commonly known as COP27) in Egypt, Dr. Benedict Oramah, president and chair of Afreximbank, authored a thoughtful and compelling commentary about the economic and social impact of divestment from the production of fossil fuels in Africa. With ...

Why the 2023 population census must be postponed

By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D Without prejudice to extent of preparations, has government genuinely evaluated reasons for dispute and rejection of previous census results in Nigeriabefore proceeding to organize another headcount? Results of census conducted in 1962, 1963, 1973, 1991 and 2006 were all marred by anomalies and controversies allegedly engendered bymanipulation and falsification of figures. ...

The West must return africa’s stolen assets, as well as its artefacts

By Muhammadu Buhari Nigerians were delighted by the news this summer that 72 artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, held by the Horniman Museum in London were returning home, 125 years after being plundered by British troops. The clamour for repatriation of looted treasures is becoming irresistible. There was once a similar clamour for the ...

Flaws in Oyetola, Aregbesola: Public Relations Perspective

By ISAAC OLUSESI isaacolusesi@gmail.com The trade of snarls on the past and present State of Osun governments of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by commission or omission, is counter productive. The quid pro quo, for most of the time has generated controversies. Out of relics. Painfully, the latest altercations have only instituted sweeping commands from ...

The Bola Tinubu they don’t know

By: Balogun Ibrahim The seemingly ingrained tendency for human beings to so easily forget their antecedents, repay evil for good and seek to destroy those God chose to use as their benefactors never ceases to amaze me. As a passionate member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I am saddened at the concerted, coordinated and ...

Cocaine Bust: Marwa rewriting history in NDLEA

By Mahmud Isa Yola Save for the fact that the news came from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency itself, Nigerians would have found it hard to believe that there is a prodigious amount of cocaine sequestered somewhere in the southwestern part of Nigeria that could weigh up to 1.8 tonnes and be worth up ...

Adeleke’s victory, not blood-stained

By Goke Awoyemi When the people of Osun State, South-West Nigeria, trooped out enthusiastically to elect who governs them for the next four years on 16th July, 2022, they had two candidates in mind. These are Governor Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola and Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke, as the other contestants as INEC results has shown were ...

Osun 2022 guber: Truth and justice

By Hon. Rotimi Makinde Truth most time is very thought provoking and with it, some can even elicit just commentaries or attract positive reactions, especially when it is not viewed within the prism of bias or sentiment. Sadly, social media lately has made things worse through opinions laced with unreasonable prejudices. In fact, if the ...

The Electoral Act 2022 allows an ‘aspirant’ to be nominated as ‘candidate’ of another party for same or different elective office

I recall my Legal Opinions dated several months ago (widely circulated on social media, being part of my social responsibility of public enlightenment). (2) I'm bemused at the ludicrous futility of suits of certain political actors seeking to nullify nomination of candidates of certain political parties who had been validly, legally and constitutionally substituted. (3) ...

Osun guber: YIAGA’s revelations vindicate my position

Ismail Omipidan Let me state from the outset that this is not a media trial of the case before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal. Far from it. This is just an attempt to ‘synchronise’ what I said recently with respect to the outcome of the July 16 election with the revelations from The Youth Initiative ...

Strengthening NBA-SBL for enhanced performance

Adewale Kupoluyi The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has elected new set of officers to steer its affairs for the next two years. The coming on board of seasoned lawyers is an opportunity to consolidate on past achievements and develop fresh strategies that would made the section a force to be reckoned ...

Why National Assembly must reject National Grazing Reserve Council Bill — Austin Monye

I decided to read a copy of the National Grazing Reserve Council Bill and I was surprised at what I saw. The Bill creates a council to be chaired by a Chairman to be appointed by the President. The council shall have the power to take your land anywhere the land is located in the ...

A nation in chains

By Dakuku Peterside Something remarkable happened last week at the 2022 Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos. However, social media was awash with mundane, trivial, irrelevant, and cosmetic portrayals and representations of the Vice-Presidential candidate of APC at that event. They focussed on the appropriateness, type, and size of the shoe the ebullient Senator ...

Understanding Governor Oyetola

Kunle Oyatomi I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. – Horace Walpole (1717-1797). The contemporary political history of Nigeria reveals one universal truth: leadership or headship of a government is beyond winning elections. Victory at the poll is the cherished desire of ...

Who is Prof. Victor Emmanuel Osodeke?

By Bolanle Bolawole turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The headline above is not originally mine. Rather, it is the title of an online publication by ng.news247.com on 30th May, 2021, the eve of Osodeke’s election as the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Osodeke took over the mantle of leadership from Prof. Biodun ...

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