On October 18, the Shiroro-Kaduna 330kV lines 1 and 2 were vandalised by bandits, crippling the power supply to 17 of the 19 northern states. For over a week, millions …
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Fisayo Soyombo and the trouble with taking Nigeria too seriously
After many years of guarding oil pipeline installations, the Nigerian Army finally made its first high-profile arrest. It turned out to be a journalist! Investigative journalist and founder of the …
Read More »Igniting innovations for Africa’s educational transformation
For most of us in Africa, the importance of technology in education was forcefully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the lockdowns, schools were required to migrate …
Read More »Kemi Badenoch in UK politics: Milestone for black community – Part 2
From a historical standpoint, Badenoch’s current political strategy in the UK parallels that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), whose rise to the U.S. presidency (1933–1945) was shaped by significant challenges, …
Read More »Of VCs, CMDs, dying patients and physician conspiracy
Not many people may have heard of Miriam Olusanya. But Ms. Olusanya is currently Managing Director of GT Bank, a company with a market capitalisation in excess of a trillion …
Read More »FRN vs. Akaeze: Criminal investigation simplified
One fateful night in 2012, there was a loud bang on the door of this middle-aged man who had just moved to his house in the Lekki area. The post …
Read More »Re-establishing genuine federalism and Nigeria’s constitutional law
Federalism, in progressive democracies is a political model in which power is distributed amongst various tiers of administration at national or subnational levels. The post Re-establishing genuine federalism and Nigeria’s …
Read More »An agenda for Tinubu’s troika
The past week has been awash with ceaseless conversations sometimes befuddling into heated debate and vitriolic exchanges over the appointment and redesignation of the schedule of duties of our President’s …
Read More »Between VAT and Sales Tax
After tempestuous agitations from Northern Nigeria, which appears to be more concerned with the sharing of revenue from Value Added Tax, the House of Representatives suspended deliberations on President Bola …
Read More »Antidotes to Nigeria’s voter apathy syndrome
“The greatest threat to democracy is indifference.” – former United States president, Franklin Roosevelt. This is not a rejoinder to last Sunday’s editorial of this newspaper titled “Voter apathy: Onus …
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