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Last week’s inauguration of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal, despite months of hair-raising suspense has renewed hope that democracy has capacity to replenish itself.

As part of its responsibility to examine the accounts and reports of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government, the Bamidele Salaam (PDP)-led House Committee on Public Accounts in November 2023 initiated an investigation

Conceived in the 1970s, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline, TSGP, was to bear natural gas from Warri in the Niger Delta to Niger Republic, Algeria and Europe.  On January 14, 2002, then Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC...

In this instalment, I relate to the recent presidential ban on foreign trips by ministers, heads of departments, and agencies, at the expense of government, for three months in the first instance.

Squealing to the discovery of petroleum, Nigeria has rapidly grown into a major food importing nation as the government has become neglectful of the agricultural sector since petroleum is considered a more viable resource for economic development

As I was saying before the electricity jumbo bill and other related bills came to compound our expenditure woes:

African youths often participate in witch-hunting campaigns. They blindly and dogmatically believe in witches, sanction, instigate, and commission witch and demon hunting and exorcism in their families and communities.

I feel disgruntled as a devout Muslim! The Holy Quran aptly posits that there should be no compulsion in religious beliefs.

Recently, the International Women’s Day 2024 with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress” was celebrated globally.  Although the United Nations mainstreamed this event in 1977, its origin is actually traced to the period of the Russian Revolution...

Peter Obi shook the political establishment in 2022 when he chose to run as presidential candidate of the obscure Labour Party. He captured the imagination of the youths.

Another round of bank recapitalisation is here and for the next two years between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2026, the nation’s 25 commercial and six merchant banks are expected to shore up their minimum share capital by as much as 100 per cent...

It cannot be for nothing that we human beings are endowed with the faculty with which to reflect, to weigh and examine, to think and in the words of a wise man, think and think until thinking hurts.