Governance not guns will secure West Africa
By Lawal Farouq A recent West Africa Security Retreat has warned that lasting peace will come not from firepower but from accountable institutions, resilient governance, and the trust of citizens. West Africa has been fighting insecurity for decades, yet the region remains trapped in a cycle of violence. Extremist groups regroup after defeats, criminal networks adapt […]
When Dead SIMs Died: How the NCC clean-up made Nigerian telecoms more honest
By Lanre Basamta There are moments in the life of an industry when progress does not look like growth. It looks like a subtraction. It looks like pain. It looks like a sudden fall in numbers that once gave comfort to executives, investors, regulators, advertisers and the public. That is what happened to Nigeria’s telecommunications sector […]
Strengthening governance in Nigeria’s public sector and state-owned enterprises (SOEs)
By Taiwo Nolas-Alausa The Chartered Institute of Directors Nigeria (CIoD Nigeria) strongly believes that the systemic weaknesses afflicting governance in our nation’s public sector and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) constitute a first-order national development emergency. Corruption, procurement fraud, weak board oversight, fiscal opacity, and the persistent culture of impunity in public institutions are not peripheral administrative […]
Delta Central 2027: No more family table, Urhobo must eat together
By Wilson Okorugbo There is a pattern in Delta politics that has become tired, predictable, and costly. It’s the politics of borrowed identity. Senator Ovie Omo-Age perfected it. He embodied it so completely, it’s not for wont of the right label to tag it the ‘Agege Doctrine.’ Under the Agege Doctrine, election season sounds like […]
Prof Bart Nnaji @ 70: A reason to believe
A remarkable development in Bart’s final year in school was his taking to sports during the Inter-House Sports Competition and dusting established athletes.
China’s Global Governance Practice: Long march in a new era
By Adetoro Banwo The 105 years anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, CPC, brings to the fora the fundamental principles that have shaped the party in historical and modern times. A party that was founded by a group of intellectuals such as Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao built a new China through […]
