Sim-swap fraud now in vogue
By Owolola Adebola We are in a period when a smartphone functions as a digital wallet, identity card, and security key all at once. One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook has returned with a vengeance. SIM-swap fraud is at it. It is also known as SIM swapping, SIM hijacking, or phone-number takeover. […]
Of international expatriate ‘tariffs’ and the Nigerian situation
By JOHSON MOMODU Ongoing plan by the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Interior and the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, to roll out a policy to drag expatriates into its revenue-generation net has dominated the media space in the last two weeks. According to sundry media reports, the plan would dovetail into a […]
Between the politicization of Nigeria’s judiciary and the judicialization of Nigerian politics
The ascent of judicial activism in the apex court aligns with the judiciary’s increasing involvement in Nigeria’s political landscape
Why Uzodimma won with landslide
Senator Uzodimma’s unprecedented landslide victory at the recently held gubernatorial elections in Imo State could not have …
Fixing Nigeria
The bane of the Nigerian state is the courage to dispassionately confront the structural question in a statesmanlike manner such that the incumbent political actors will not be deterred by the fear of loss of enormous powers
National contradictions Tinubu must resolve in 2024
Until a more suitable political template is introduced, Nigeria will continue to drift in circles like a regional giant with no illuminating potentials to inspire public confidence.
