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The current entanglement surrounding the suspension of a popular online platform, Twitter, seemed to have revealed what opposition politics in Nigeria is all about. It is rather regrettable that the well-being of citizens does not matter to most opponents of the government. Almost everything is about personalities and self-aggrandisement. The country’s brand of opposition politics…
Pauline Tallen, the Minister of Women’s Affairs and Social Development, has condemned artists for encouraging the abuse of women’s bodies by using filthy lyrics and presenting female dancers in a demeaning way. Tallen spoke at the presentation of the State of the World Population 2021 Reeport in Abuja on Tuesday, addressing the topic, ‘”My Body…
The President asked a question: Can they say that I have not been governing according to the Constitution? In the practice of law, lawyers are always delighted when such an open question is asked, because it is an opportunity to take up the gauntlet that has been thrown and score damning points in a case,…
On 6 June 2021, the leader of the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group confirmed the death of Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. ISWAP said that it carried out Shekau’s elimination on the direct orders of the group’s leaders in the Middle East. In the last 12 years, Shekau, on several occasions, has…
The Lake Chad region has been bedevilled with many challenges over the years. This location has been the site of severe violent encounters perpetrated, especially by the Boko Haram sect. In recent times, the front burner issue is the intense fight between farmers and herders in the area. The basin’s economic potentials attracted herders from…
Some months ago, a Public Historian and Writer, Dr. Udu Yakubu, published an article in The Journal titled, “Buhari Needs Emergency Powers to Tackle Insecurity.” Read Also: BUHARI NEEDS EMERGENCY POWERS TO TACKLE INSECURITY In that article, Udu Yakubu noted with clear precision that “Fighting a counter-insurgency war will require a lot of resolve by…
The House of Representatives currently has before it a bill seeking to bar bank workers and staff of other financial institutions from operating foreign accounts. The bill which has scaled the first reading requires that spouses and children of bank employees and staff of other financial institutions may be mandated to declare their assets when…
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,…
