Can Agriculture Replace Crude? Experts reveal path to Nigeria’s export revival
By Cynthia Alo For more than five decades, crude oil has remained the dominant pillar of Nigeria’s economy, displacing agriculture from the position it once occupied as the country’s major source of revenue and foreign exchange. However, with the global shift towards cleaner energy and growing concerns over the sustainability of oil dependence, experts are […]
What Ambode told Buhari about his Lagos legacies
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 will go down in history as a special day for Lagos State and indeed Nigeria. Reason: It was a day President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated five landmark legacy projects of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration in critical sectors including health, transportation, road and social infrastructure.
Onnoghen’s CCT Conviction: 100 days before the guillotine fell
Onnoghen was suspended barely eight hours after he announced his decision to inaugurate judges that will take charge of the 2019 election petition tribunals
The Ajaokuta jinx and the 34 bills rejected by Buhari
The project was embarked upon as a strategic industry, a job creator and a foreign exchange saver and earner
Under siege 144 die in nine days
These are not alarming tales but the true picture of the current security situation across Nigeria’s 36 states
Killings: Herdsmen, cultists taking centre stage in southeast
A spate of killings is creeping into the southeast. Cultist, bandits and herdsmen are gaining ground in the southeast once again. Very recently, gunmen initially suspected to be herdsmen killed a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Clement Ugwu who was said to have been kidnapped from his Parish, St Mark Catholic Church, Obinofia Ndiuno in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State.
Killing fields of North-west: They killed my husband, our three children in my presence – Zamfara survivor
The federal government of Nigeria this week announced the suspension of mining activities in Zamfara state to check the activities of bandits and criminals who have made the state a by word for impudent criminality.
Bloody, faulty, inconclusive polls: Why over 1.2m votes were voided
SINCE February 16, 2019, Nigerians, almost on a weekly basis, have been saddled with one election or the other across the country with the attendant socio-economic costs.
The eldorado of IBB’s two-party system
The idea of a two-party system had for long remained an issue for Nigeria since the advent of independence in 1960. Where it was not immediately realized, political parties sought to find alliances in the second elections after the inauguration of the first two republics, to wit, the 1964 and 1983.
It’s absurd to have 91 political parties – Prof. Akintoye
Respected historian, writer and academic, Prof. Banji Akintoye, was one of the close allies of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. He was a facilitator in the production of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria’s UPN’s manifesto that focused on free education, integrated rural development among others.
91 parties : Cure or curse
Democracy as a system of government thrives on plurality of opinions. As a government of the people and by the people, freedom of expression and liberty of association is one of the striking features that differentiate democracy from other governance systems.
