Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission ICPC were established some two decades ago by the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo. The motivation was to set up strategic platforms to deal decisively with the evils of corruption which were generally accepted by all to be at […]

No one else followed up on Shehu Sani’s allegation until the recent alarm by Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State that the excessive loans he inherited were about to overwhelm his administration

David Nweze Umahi who currently serves as Nigeria’s Minister of Works, never impressed me one day throughout his tenure as Governor of Ebonyi State from 2015 to 2023. I was however not unaware of several development projects reportedly executed by him as governor which would ordinarily have painted him to me as one of the […]

One thing the flamboyant electioneering campaigns leading to the 2023 presidential elections did not expatiate upon was how the first budget of the new administration would be funded to meet the lofty campaign promises. The expectations became heightened when it became obvious that the inauguration of a new Nigerian President on May 29, 2023 did […]

How best can the nation reduce the strangle-hold of the PDP/APC which were clearly two sides of the same coin?