WE congratulate Nigeria’s Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina for his re-election as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, by the Bank’s Board of Directors with the full support of other stakeholders on August 24, 2020. It is a deserved victory because in politics, it is said that one good term deserves another. Adesina’s successful implementation of […]

ONE of Nigeria’s obvious national hobbies is the routine tinkering with the constitution. Whether under military or civilian regimes, the impulse to convene conferences towards the promulgation of new constitutions or the routine amendments of existing ones is always with us, but we still end up with the same unsatisfactory constitutional document. The Ninth Senate […]

WHEN will Nigeria ever have a stable social sector? When shall we have at least ten years of unbroken services in the education and health sectors? When will government learn to fulfill its obligations to the social sector workforce to enable them deliver unbroken services to the people, especially ordinary citizens? These questions are germane […]

THE 60th edition of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual general conference which held in Lagos between Wednesday and Saturday, August 26 and 29, 2020, was nearly scuppered by the usual Nigerian demon of injecting ethno-religious and sectional sentiments into efforts to forge a common direction for this country. The conference, the first virtual outing […]

IT was very broadly predicted that the prolonged lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic would come with severe adverse economic consequences all over the world. As we enter the seventh month of the pandemic in Nigeria with a considerable measure of economic reopening, the realities of our situation have hit very hard. Though nobody is […]