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It has been a long wait for South Africans who have been watching a “political movie”, with former President Jacob Zuma playing the lead role. No matter the outcome, this development is a tribute to South Africa’s judiciary and democracy that a former President and freedom fighter has been imprisoned for trying to evade accountability…
Elections were held in Lagos on Saturday 24 July 2021 to choose new leaders for the 57 Councils in the State; the Councils comprise of 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). The polls were however met with widespread voter apathy and extremely low turn-out, with many Lagosians only aware of the…
  Born on January 2, 1976, in Zaria, to the ruling class family of the Sullubawa clan, Hadiza Bala Usman ancestry is heavily decorated with royalty. Her father, Yusufu Bala Usman, was the grandson of Sarkin Katsina, Muhammadu Katsina Dikko. Yusufu Bala Usman was a prominent academic and historian, He was the founder of the…
Nigeria loses 138,400 barrels of crude oil per day (about 7% of its total production) to theft, oil spills, or shortage in production, according to a report from the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).         The NEITI report further said that Nigeria has lost more than 505 million barrels…
In a recent United nations Development Programme (UNDP) Report, which was published on the crisis in the north-east of Nigeria, it was revealed that the conflict in the region could result in the loss of 1.1 million Nigerian lives by 2030, if the current investment deficit in development is not addressed. Since 2009, the devastating conflict…
The move by the House of Representatives to amend the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) Act Cap N128, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1992, has been generating heated reactions from stakeholders in the media industry. The attempt is part of government efforts to curb the spread of fake news and misinformation in the public domain….
The 2021 World Drug Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that 275 million (5.5%) of the global population, aged between 15 and 64 years, had used hard drugs habitually in the previous year. It has also been projected that 36 million individuals will be experiencing drug use disorders. Furthermore, the…
Imagine somewhere probably in the naked clouds where ideas that can literally generate cutting-edge results can be moulded. Results, when fully baked, will incite smiles and great satisfaction across business and political circles in virtually all regions of the world. Don’t think too far. It is a place where the minds of thousands of change-makers,…
The World Bank recently reported that inflationary pressure in Nigeria has pushed about seven million Nigerians below the poverty line in 2020 alone. The revelation, which was contained in the bank’s latest report on Nigeria titled, ‘Nigeria Development Update: Resilience through Reforms’, was released about two weeks ago. The bank’s report also noted the capacity…
The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), which had hitherto banned for life Nigeria’s former Super Eagles gaffer, Samson Siasia, from the game for match-fixing allegations, recently announced that the sanction has been reduced to five years. The sanction was reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). FIFA had said in 2019 that…
