The decision of the United States of America and the United Kingdom to impose some sanctions on Nigerian election riggers and promoters of violence is welcome. We applaud it, though we would want these strategic foreign partners of Nigeria to go further in efforts to moderate the excesses of the Nigerian power elite who have […]

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, deserves the commendation of Nigerians for its proactive commitment to ensure that the federal and state governments render full account of funds spent in tackling the on-going coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. As the nation embarked on emergency lock-downs as part of efforts to curb the spread of the virus, […]

WHERE would the world be today without the United Nations, UN? Even though the UN is often derided as having failed the expectations of many, the world would definitely have been a much poorer place if we did not have the benefit of the moderating effects of this noble global organisation. The UN has been […]

CONTRARY to widespread expectations, the just-concluded Edo State governorship election has come and gone successfully. The fire and brimstone we expected to fall from the skies did not happen. The pre-election sabre-rattling, which peaked with the removal of the roof of the Edo State House of Assembly and gun violence around the palace of the […]

HAVING forced through the deregulation and subsidy removal policy which it now blames previous regimes of lacking the “courage” to implement, the Buhari regime owes Nigerians an unreserved apology for truncating it during our economic boom nine years ago. In spite of the dirty politics associated with the deregulation and subsidy removal, we, however, see […]