‘Igbo dominated the officers’ corps. As there were many prominent Igbo officers in the army, it was wrongly perceived that Igbo people organised the coup’

 •Says politicians use abductors during elections By Kennedy Mbele Katsina State government has come under scrutiny over  plans to release about 70  detained persons suspected of involvement in banditry. The move is being presented as  part of efforts to consolidate an ongoing peace deal with alleged repentant bandits operating across several local government areas of the state.  Government […]

Air Commodore Abayomi Balogun served in the Air Force for 34 years. He retired in 2014 as Deputy Director of Operations.

Godwin Alabi-Isama retired from the military as a Brigadier-General and is the author of the very revealing book, THE TRAGEDY OF VICTORY.  In an interview with Edmund Obilo, the creator and anchor of STATE AFFAIRS, a current affairs interview programme last year, Alabi-Isama made some revelations about Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu like none other has […]

In this interview with Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, the Managing Director of Summit Bank Limited, Dr. Sirajo Salisu, gave insight into the operations in the sub-sector

Sir Steve Bamidele Omojafor, an advertising titan, is the Chairman of STB-MCann, a former President of the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria

Chief Ayo Opadokin, a lawyer and former assistant director of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, in the Second Republic, was in the trenches during the battle against military

Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Legal  Adviser, Jacob Mark, in this monitored interview, suggests reasons politicians are defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, among others. Excerpts: The latest development in the PDP is the visit of the party’s National Working Committee led by Kabiru Turaki to former President Goodluck Jonathan, to confer with […]

Abused children were reunited with supportive families while perpetrators faced the full weight of the law. Each success reinforces the critical role of coordinated victim advocacy

Adewole Adebayo, leader of the SDP and the party’s 2023 presidential candidate,  in this interview, bares his mind on the new tax policy

Rt Hon Victor Olabimtan was a former Speaker of the Ondo state House of Assembly and presently the state chairman of the Executive Chairman, Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board, ODSUBEB. He has just been appointed the state coordinator of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors, RHA.

Before you get to the 25% tax rate in Nigeria, you need to be earning a billion a year. I say this with all seriousness

Dr Jumoke Oduwole spoke from Geneva, Switzerland, at the WTO Trade in Services for Development Conference, is Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment

…says institutional capacity lacking By Efe Onodjae & Dickson Omobola Dr Bolaji Stephen, an Australian-based educationist, is a lecturer at Federation University in Australia. In this interview, Stephen speaks on Nigeria’s education system, the ban on social media for children in Australia, and whether such a policy could be implemented in Nigeria, among other issues. […]

Henry Ugwu studies what happens when governments speak and people tune out. Not because the public is uninformed, he says, but because trust is thin, fear is high, and misinformation moves faster than official guidance, especially online.