Over dinner at the restaurant of the latest five-star hotel in upscale Lagos that Saturday, there was a pervading sense of confidence in the tax ecosystem expressed among diners, a motely crop
A recent report by Oxfam indicates that seven of Africa’s richest individuals control more wealth than the poorest half of the continent’s population which constitutes an estimated 700 million people.
To the keen and casual observer alike, the geopolitical grounds are rapidly shifting, and a seemingly new world order is taking shape. This change is all too apparent worldwide; in the last
From a level of 21.34 per cent as of end-December 2022, Nigeria’s headline inflation maintained a consistent upwards trajectory, closing year 2023 at 28.92 per cent—a rate widely considered to be the
The Federal Government is right to, as reported in the Press, suspend the accreditation of degree certificates from some foreign universities because of doubts about their legality and academic integrity.Â
Among the reasons for the appeal of democracy world-wide are: Responsive and rule-governed leadership; freedoms and rights; political tolerance; as well as, voting system, and citizen participation through representation.
We have had a running battle with court and custodial centre congestion, with the attendant violation, albeit inadvertent, of the constitutional rights to humane custodial conditions and speedy trial of suspects. This
For eight years, former President Muhammadu Buhari, his first family, their hangers-on and political bootlickers treated Nigerians with contempt in the manner they embarked on frivolousforeign trips on the bill of taxpayers.