THE National Orientation Agency, NOA, part of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, is one of the least esteemed Federal Government’s departments and agencies. Since the dawn of the current democratic dispensation, the NOA has languished in the shadow of relevance because no regime has shown interest in deploying it to push the […]

The ruling by the Supreme Court a week ago, nullifying the National Lottery Act of 2005, is another landmark judgement favouring the gradualist move to restore true federalism. The 1999 Constitution is widely criticised for its military-like centralised command structure which promotes injustice, especially in the economic sector and sharing of national revenues. In nullifying […]

Many Nigerians were worried, some weeks ago, when the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, was caught on live video singing the praises of his employer, President Bola Tinubu. He was responding to the reported infiltration of Sokoto State by a “new” terror group known as the Lakurawa. He boasted that the armed group was […]

President Bola Tinubu’s bid to reform taxation in Nigeria has turned into a “war” of sorts, with some state governors, especially those from the North, pitched against the Federal Government and National Assembly members. Early in October 2024, Tinubu transmitted four tax reform bills to the NASS. Of the lot, it was the bill that […]

The scandalous disclosure that 34 states have failed to access N263 billion Universal Basic Education, UBE, funds should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in protest if Nigerians had not become so totally desensitised to shocks. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Hamid Bobboyi, made this disclosure during an […]