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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…
It was with a blend of disbelief and apprehension that Nigerians received the news of the death of Yinka Odumakin, the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere. As Mike Ozekhome said and as others reasoned, Odumakin’s death had to be an April Fool Day prank. The jolting nature of the news is better…
Political activism has always been a noble cause. The likes of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, among others, will forever be remembered in history for the decorous ways they went about advocating the rights of the people. Many who are today activists and human rights advocates were inspired by these lots. In recent…
Ibrahim Maigari is the MD/CEO of Rice Afrika, a top food brand in Nigeria. He is also a Tech Expert. He strongly believes in the use of technology to transform livestock management, a feat he has achieved with Livestock24/7. At a time, he proposed to the Federal Government the idea of establishing a livestock identification…
Senate president, Ahmed Lawan, decried the rejection of some bills proposed by the National Assembly. He blamed the president’s cabinet for misadvising the president, most of whom were not always present at public hearings. Lawan made this disclosure on 31 March 2021 at a public hearing organised in Abuja by the Senate Committee on Health…
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…
The Independent National Electoral Commission recently rejected the mandatory use of National Identity Number for Continuous Voter Registration which resumes on 28 June 2021, in the 774 Local Government Areas. This is ahead of the 2023 general election. According to the INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmood: “The NIN is not going to be mandatory for the…
At least $1.5 billion (about N570 billion) is spent annually on the importation of dairy products into the country. This was made known by Alhaji Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on 28 March 2021, at the National Diary Policy Stakeholders Engagement in Abuja. According to him, 60 per cent of dairy…
The importance of research findings cannot be overemphasized. This was the crux of the message delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari last month, while declaring open the Five-Day Technology and Innovation Expo 2021 organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology. With the allocation of about 0.5 per cent of GDP to research and innovation,…
The agitation for a drastic reduction in the cost of governance is gaining traction in the country’s political circles. With Nigeria currently facing the challenges of dwindling revenue, the need to cut costs to stabilize the polity keeps propping up at different fora. Recently, Plateau State’s Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, who was Guest speaker at…
