In the high-stakes theatre of global aviation, Nigeria has long been a leading actor, providing one of the most lucrative hubs for international carriers in Africa. Yet, a troubling subtext has emerged in our hangars: the growing insistence by some foreign airlines to price and sell tickets exclusively in US Dollars. As we navigate the […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has never lacked the impulse for reforms. Its recent directive restricting each Point-of-Sale, PoS, operator to a single terminal is clearly born of a noble intent: to sanitise an informal sector that has occasionally become a playground for bad actors. By seeking to track every Kobo through a “one-agent-one-principal” […]

For decades, the Nigerian university system has operated as a conveyor belt, dutifully delivering thousands of graduates into an economy that has no room for them. Our ivory towers became factories of frustration, producing “job-seekers” whose primary skill was the desperate distribution of CVs. However, the recent launch of the N2.5 billion Student Venture Capital […]

For 19 years, Nigeria has bled under the scourge of Islamic terrorism. From the early days of the Boko Haram uprising to the present-day hydra-headed monster of ISWAP, Fulani herdsmen and “bandit” alliances, the recipe for Nigeria’s survival has always been simple: justice. Yet, the Federal Government continues to serve Nigerians the bitter, indigestible pill […]

Nigerians, especially those in the rural areas, live with the ever-present pollution of their only sources of potable water – springs, streams and small rivers. This is mostly due to lack of government diligent attention to the welfare of the people and outright lawlessness by citizens, including corporate citizens. The people of Amankwo of Agbada […]