A legislative proposal that has suffered a high level of frustration is the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2010. During President Muhammadu Buhari’s first tenure, strenuous efforts were made by the Eighth National Assembly led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki to upgrade our electoral laws. But because these amendments were perceived as being capable of […]

AFTER a prolonged period of absence from the public eye, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay, has resurfaced and given insights into the manner in which recovered looted funds have been handled by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. While briefing the media on the contributions of his Committee on […]

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has once again reaffirmed his image as a people-oriented leader, with the suspension of the scheduled “Lagos Peace Walk” which was stoking political tension in the nation’s economic capital. The “Walk” was part of the contents of the Governor’s pronouncements on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, while addressing the state’s […]

Up till 2014, most reputable international investment ranking organisations reported Nigeria as the number one investment destination in Africa. In particular, a United States-based economic advisory firm, Frontiers Strategy Group, affirmed that Nigeria had continued to attract growing interest of international organisations and multinationals in spite of Boko Haram insurgency marked with suicide bombings. Since […]

FOR the second time this year, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has engaged in a tit-for-tat with our international partners over bilateral rows. In June, Nigeria banned micro-blogging site, Twitter, from operating within the country in retaliation for the censure and suspension of President Buhari’s Twitter handle over comments that the tech giant considered an infringement […]