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Census has remained a veritable mechanism through which countries around the world garner the data of their citizens for sustainable development. Constitutionally, Nigeria’s census should be done every 10 years by the National Population Commission (NPC), but it has been difficult to sustain due to the pressures on the economy and lack of political will…
In Nigeria, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is authorised by its enabling Act (the National Broadcast Commission Act 1992) to license, monitor, sanction, intervene, and arbitrate in conflicts, as well as create a code setting the standards of the contents and quality of materials for broadcast in Nigeria. In 2016, the commission issued the sixth…
Political parties have been growing exponentially since the inception of democratic governance in Nigeria. But stakeholders in almost all the parties appear to be focused on making the party an instrument for their ascendance to power by all means rather than a tool for good governance. It is against this backdrop that Kano State Governor,…
In recent times, social media handles and platforms have been inundated with divergent thoughts on the authenticity of the news reports alleging that Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, is on a United States’ terror watchlist. It all began like a fable tale. The Daily Independent newspaper broke the news, and…
The decision by Twitter to take her African head office to Ghana has continued to generate huge bickering, especially among those who feel all key investments in Africa must come to the continent’s largest economy. Indeed, Nigeria has attracted several mega-companies across the globe, which have boosted her Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the last…
The spate of insecurity in Nigeria is rising in exponential dimension as citizens now sleep with one eye closed, not knowing the next community or institution that the hoodlums may attack. Anarchy recently broke out in Owerri, Imo State, a relatively peaceful town as thousands of prison inmates from Owerri Correctional Service (NCS) located along…
Nigerians have been clamouring for more efficient ways of processing passports as the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) appears to be overwhelmed by the avalanche of applications and the human traffic that throng its headquarters to apply for or renew international passports, as well as visa. Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola seemed to have hearkened to…
The recent face-off between Nigerian Banks and Telecommunication Companies on the use of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is a pointer that regulators on both financial and telecom sectors have a lot of work to do. The face-off which lasted for almost three days was a great setback to the quest to achieve the…
Several issues have been of great concern to indigenes of the Southeast geo-political zone. They range from limited appointments into top political positions, to persistently being sidelined by major political parties when it comes to the issue of presidential front runners. In the political turf today, many Igbos are holding on to the firm belief…
