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Beyond the Dangote IPO: What happens when the promise is tested

Beyond the Dangote IPO: What happens when the promise is tested

Unless you have been deliberately avoiding the news lately, chances are that you have heard something about the Dangote Refinery Initial Public Offering (IPO). It is difficult not to. Open your email or banking app and you are likely to find an invitation to subscribe. Take a leisurely scroll through social media and you will […]
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Still the happiest people?

Still the happiest people?

By IFEANYICHUKWU AFUBA Dele Giwa was partially right. It was either October or November 1983. A Nigeria Airways Fokker 27 jet had crashed at Emene, Enugu, killing about 25 people. Air crashes were rare in the country at the time, especially at such scale of fatalities. Two or three days later, Dele Giwa’s column in National […]

Alkali, IMF and the future of Nigeria’s transport economy

Alkali, IMF and the future of Nigeria’s transport economy

By SAIDU AHMED Transportation has changed the accent of the global economy, at a time when the stratagem to power and progress is not only filtered for the praise of economics and what humanity has achieved in a classical sense, whether these filters are contemporarily changed by dialectical realities of post-pandemic economics or not, we do […]

Tap to report: Holding Nigeria’s public officials and civil servants accountable

Tap to report: Holding Nigeria’s public officials and civil servants accountable

By ABIDEMI ADEBAMIWA EVERYDAY, Nigerians are fed up with corruption and poor service, and it’s no surprise. A recent viral story of a bolt driver harassed by a public servant sparked outrage across the country. People want change, but imagine if he could have reported it on the spot through a simple system designed to […]

Edo election and agents of confusion

Edo election and agents of confusion

By WASHINGTON OSIFO ARISETV regular morning show on November 2, 2024, featured Martins Obono, Executive Director Tap Initiative for Citizens Development. Obono identified himself as one of the many civil society activists in Nigeria and indeed, there are a legion of them. We do know, however, that not all the activists and civil society organisations […]