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Nigeria’s Stanford warning: When institutions normalise abuse of power, by Dakuku Peterside

Sometimes, a nation confronts scandals that appear unrelated: corruption in one institution, brutality in another, and troubling questions of legality elsewhere. Yet beneath the shifting headlines, a deeper pattern may be emerging. Recent debate has involved allegations of corruption, extortion, torture, and degrading treatment in correctional centres; claims that constituency projects are distorting the federal budget; […]
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The Zuma in ANC

THE move by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to impeach South African President Jacob Zuma for corruption, was bound to end in failure. This is because the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had ahead of the April 5, 2016 motion, backed Zuma. For the impeachment to sail through,

Strange Sports Minister, NFF and foreign coach!

There’s hardly any week that the Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, does not have a thing or two to talk about football. If he is not orchestrating to settle dispute (even where there is none) he is attending one football event or receiving a delegation of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF or their President, Amaju Pinnick.

The unprotected consumer

NIGERIAN banks deserve some accolade, having come a long way from the dark ages when even the simplest bank transaction was an entire day’s job. Today, depending on how fast you can speak the language of the Automated Teller Machine, ATM, in split seconds, you are done with your banking transaction – without interacting with any human.

Sectional rumpus in police 10,000 jobs

YOU may have seen the copiously advertised job vacancies by the Police Service Commission (PSC) entitled: ­ “Recruitment Into The Nigerian Police Force”. It was published over the past week in major national dailies. Going through the advert, you will not notice anything odd about it.

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