With his second return to the APC, Femi Fani-Kayode’s fluctuating disposition makes him quite a puzzling character for critical examination. His recent move unravels an unstable character, and the depth of hypocrisy […]
Fani-Kayode: The Ultimate No Virtue Politician
A Promise with China: Knowing Where Nigeria’s Bread Is Buttered
Despite persistent efforts by the West to discourage Nigeria and other African countries from close economic partnership with China, relations between China and Nigeria has continued to grow, opening new vistas of […]
Electronic Transmission of Election Results: the Example of Nasir El-Rufai
The use of the Electronic Voting Machines during the last local government elections in Kaduna State has been commended by many stakeholders. One cannot discountenance Governor El-Rufai’s courage in this regard. It […]
Chinaphobia: Why America and Its Allies are Losing Sleep over China’s Rapid Rise
Each time China coughs, America gets the flu and her allies fall into a state of frenzy. Why is Chinaphobia becoming a dominant public malady in the West today? **** The United […]
Belligerent Posturing for Presidency: How Much Can the Southern Governors Achieve?
The outright demand by the Southern Governors Forum to produce the next President of Nigeria has ruffled a lot of feathers in the north. Can the belligerent posturing by the Southern Governors […]
Dining with IPOB: The Southeast Governors Finally Swallow the Bitter Pill
Compliance with IPOB’s sit-at-home order has had dire consequences for people and state governments in the southeast. For politics and economy, it seems that the governors of the region are just beginning […]
VAT and the Logic of Fair Redistribution
The evolution of Nigerian federalism has undergone major genetic variations in the last 20 years, but the war that has just broken out over the value-added tax (VAT) may become the turning […]
How the Niger Delta Leaders Sold Their People for Billions of Dollars
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has attained the ignoble status of a long-standing unresolved national mystery which has continued to defy conventional and unconventional interventions geared towards making it function as […]
Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo: Effective Management of Modern Maritime Security
“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there” – Mie Hamm A few months ago, precisely on January 26th, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) appointed new Service Chiefs […]
Is the Nigerian Judiciary Back in the Pockets of Politicians?
In the last two months, several court orders and counter-orders had been issued against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), particularly as it relates to the November 6 governorship election in Anambra […]
Tracking the Payment of Ransom to Kidnappers
Kidnapping is a victim crime or a crime of violence that affects the physical nature of a captured population, their lives or even leads to their death. This represents a sharp contrast […]
A Widening Gulf between the Federal and State Governments
The Federal and State governments of Nigeria have been engulfed by a twin-hybrid issue of value added tax (VAT) and open grazing and there appears to be no end in sight as […]
Terrifying Alarm on Global Climate Change
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared a “code red for humanity” in a recent report, giving a peek of the world’s future. Global warming is dangerously close to spiraling […]
Is the VAT War a Strategy of Political Restructuring?
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has often been described as a federation only by name, as the components that make up the country operate more like feeder-states instead of federating units. The […]
GDP Growth and Debt Sustainability: The Case for Reasonable Borrowing
When we mention Gross Domestic Product (GDP), we talk about the total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy during a specified period (usually a year). It […]
The Blood of Children: America’s Manner of Withdrawal from Afghanistan
A day after the Taliban installed themselves in the presidential palace in Kabul, seizing control over Afghanistan two decades after being toppled from power by the U.S. military, fears intensified about a […]
E-Naira: Dawn of a New Financial Era
The phenomenon of digital currencies has assumed a wider dimension globally over the last decade with its attendant impact on commerce and the economy often dividing opinions on the subject. The growth […]
Medical Brain Drain: No End in Sight Yet
Nigeria’s healthcare system has over the years suffered from inadequate funding, neglected clinics and hospitals, and poorly paid and overworked healthcare workers who frequently move abroad for better employment. Nigeria’s medical brain […]
How Afghanistan was Betrayed
For the past three and a half months, I fought day and night, nonstop, in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province against an escalating and bloody Taliban offensive. Coming under frequent attack, we held […]
Nigeria on the Path of 5G Development
The Senate has approved the deployment of 5G Network in Nigeria, following the consideration and adoption of the recommendations contained in the report of its Joint Committees on Communications; Science and Technology; […]
