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It was on 4 June 2021 when news filtered in that the Federal Government had indefinitely suspended the operations of Twitter, a popular microblogging and social networking platform in Nigeria that is home to an estimated 18 million active users. In a statement through the Ministry of Information and Culture, the Federal Government cited the…
The Bank of Industry was set up to provide financial and business support services to the country’s industrial sector. The bank targets sub-sectors like agricultural and agro-allied businesses, solid minerals, oil and gas, manufacturing, among others. Despite this clear-cut objective of the bank, there seems to be a huge information gap between Nigerians and what…
Governance through representation is the prevalent practice across the world today. Nigeria, like other countries, has representatives across the various arms of government. Of all these arms of government, the legislature receives the most attention because the framework for national development is drawn there. Nigeria’s bicameral legislature is modelled after that of the United States,…
Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet where he said he was going to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”. Buhari said this after receiving security reports from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on the series of recent attacks on its facilities nationwide. President Buhari followed it up in a…
There are growing concerns and speculations that the Libyan general elections will be delayed. The elections were previously planned to hold on 10 December 2018, but were shifted to early 2019 and again shifted to 24 December 2021. The new date falls on a day when Libya will mark her 70th independence anniversary. However, the…
About a year ago, George Floyd was killed under the weight of a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, in the United States. One year after, George Nkencho, a Nigerian, was shot dead in front of his house by the Garda Armed Support Unit policemen of Blanchard Stone, Clonee, West Dublin. This leads to questions as…
Reports of lecturers offering high grades in exchange for sex saturate the media space. Two lecturers from the University of Lagos were recently sacked two years after they were exposed in a sex-for-grades documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Both lecturers, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Language and Integrated Studies, and…
Undoubtedly, every right-thinking Nigerian should be concerned about the state of our nation, a country we love so much known as Nigeria. Long before now, the country has been foremost attraction within and beyond the shores of Africa. It has been a nation so well respected because of the quality and quantity of our contents…
There are many who binge on elite conspiracies which are just mere grand designs to pollute the waters for personal advantage. This is one of the reasons why talks about how the Igbo have been mindlessly marginalised in Nigeria have always saturated the media space. For decades, many people, including the media have perpetuated wrong…
The death of Professor Godswill Obioma, the National Examinations Council (NECO) Registrar and Chief Executive Officer brings to bear the penchant to politicise all issues in the country. This is following reports propagated by some media houses that the NECO registrar was assassinated. This is significant as it is coming on the heels of the…
