Stakeholders in politics and business have called on Nigerian women to actively support and promote female participation in politics.

Take this piece as part of my teaching diary, you auspicious reader! I never thought taking up a 100 level course could add any value to my young teaching ability.

Laolu Akande, an ex-media aide to Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the former Vice President is still a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Akande also dismissed rumours that Osinbajo has left politics. The former Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to Osinbajo, said this in an interview with the News Agency of…

A senior British government minister on Friday criticised Elon Musk's latest intervention in the country's politics as "misjudged and certainly misinformed". The tech billionaire accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer a day earlier of failing to bring "rape gangs" to justice when he was director of public prosecutions. In a string of posts on his X…

Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has advocated a process devoid of undue political interference and financial influence in the selection of university leadership for quality governance and educational progress in Nigeria. This was as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) appealed to the Federal Government not to systemically phase…

SIR: The recent approval of President Bola Tinubu's $2.2 billion foreign loan request has sparked intense debate across Nigeria. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been one of the most vocal critics, arguing that the loan will increase Nigeria's debt profile and burden future generations. Atiku's concerns are not unfounded, given Nigeria's history of struggling…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) has been called upon to stop playing politics over the revitalisation of the comatose Warri, Port Harcourt refineries in the country. The Niger Delta Development & Transformation Initiative (NDDTI), behind the admonition posited that talks that could salvage the ailing energy sector in Nigeria cannot be realized until…

The Director of Research at Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy, and Development, Abdulwahab Lawal, has warned that the lack of internal democracy within Nigerian political parties could eventually lead to dictatorial leadership. According to the retired Nigerian Army Colonel, the absence of democratic culture in political parties is an aberration to democracy itself. Lawal, in…

Politics in Nigeria can be likened to a brawl, a noisy and aggressive fight, that is, of persons who have consumed more than a reasonable

Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, spoke at a Town Hall Meeting focused on women's political participation, highlighting the urgent need for increased female representation in government. During the event titled "Enhancing Women Political Representation: Female Legislators Constituency Outreach in Nigeria," Kingibe pointed out that while women constitute half of Nigeria's population,…

Shippers and striking US dockworkers are closer to agreeing on economic terms than they realize, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday. "We actually think the parties, economically, are not as far apart from each other as they may think," Buttigieg told CNBC a day after the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) launched a strike at…

The new European Commission is expected to take office December 1 at the earliest, after confirmation hearings for incoming commissioners were set for early November by the EU parliament Wednesday. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her new top team last month, assigning portfolios to the candidates nominated by member states, after European elections…