THE governance of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, must be totally reset to enable it  deliver its core mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta.

The move to establish the Electoral Offences Commission is one of the redeeming features of the ongoing attempt to reform elections in Nigeria. On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, the Senate passed the “National Electoral Offences Bill 2021”. Our bicameral parliament is expected to agree on the relevant provisions of the Bill and forward it to […]

THE Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, has made a landmark achievement, reporting a sum of N1.003 trillion in the first half of the year 2021, H1’21.  Going by regular trend in recent years, the figure will significantly surpass N2 trillion mark by year end.  Already the H1’21 is about 63 percent of the full year 2020. […]

THE good times may just be ahead for our long-suffering creative industry, as President Muhammadu Buhari has formally handed over the National Theatre Complex, Iganmu Lagos, to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Bankers Committee for restoration and redevelopment. According to the Governor of CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the scope of the intended […]

AFTER over five and half years in the clutches of the military and security agencies, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (the Shiites), Sheikh Ibrahim el Zakzaky and his wife, Zinatu, breathed the air of freedom, courtesy of their acquittal by a Kaduna State High Court presided over by Justice Gideon Kurada. The […]