By Aare Afe Babalola NIGERIAN indigenous culture and philanthropy: Nigeria as a country consists of different ethnic groups spread across the six major geo-political areas of the country. The Yorubas of the South-West can boast of a culture that recognises and has encouraged philanthropy in several forms. For one, the extended family system in which […]

By Dakuku Peterside THE gubernatorial and state houses of assembly elections have come and gone in most states. Unfortunately in some states it was characterised by drama, unnecessary tension, flawed process, violence and broad daylight electoral robbery. The victors are celebrating, and the losers must be feeling bad. We all hope that this election, flawed […]

By Eric Teniola This is the continuation of the narrative which last week informed that there were a total of 21 banks with 487 branches across the country when the Okigbo Committee on the Review of Nigerian Financial System was set up in 1977 BY the end of March 1991 the number of  banks had […]

By Chidi Odinkalu This week, the opening salvo will be fired to signal the onset of the final round of voting in Nigeria’s electoral marathon. This is not a reference to the state-level ballots that occurred around the country on Saturday, March 18. I refer instead to something far more consequential. Democracy may be about […]

By Owei Lakemfa Nigerians have the next 70 days to survive a regime that has chastised them with whips and is promising to further chastise them with scorpions. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, last week not only renewed the Buhari regime’s threat to increase Nigerians heavy burden by piling far […]