NEDC: The spiraling security challenges facing Nigeria in recent times have made the country seem like a nation on the wrong side of the world’s divide. Equally, a toxic mix of security threats, Boko Haram insurgency, armed banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling amongst other forms of criminalities is threatening to tear Africa’s most populous nation and […]

Rose grew up in a devout family home – an upbringing that had guided every part of her life. When she was in secondary school, her parents joined a religious group that forbade television and radio – the devil’s work, the weird-looking-bearded leader of the sect roared. Naturally, all the usual teenage vices – smoking, […]

Nigeria was amalgamated (i.e. merged together the various different sections of peoples and tribes into one national entity) by the British in 1914, gained political “Independence” on Saturday, 1st October 1960 and became a “Republic” on Tuesday, 1st October 1963. Nigeria, a country acclaimed to be the giant of Africa, in her years of nationhood, is the most populated black nation in the world. She has to her credit and recognition a written Constitution being manoeuvred for the self-styled democratic governance of this huge population, made up of peoples of different religious free will, tribes and cultural backgrounds. In Nigeria, Christianism, Islamism and traditionalism are religions most widely practised. Religion being a faith-based practise is capable of influencing on governance and the behavioural attitudes of every believer of their faith.  That notwithstanding, Nigeria has assumed a “Secular State”.

Agriculture was the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy before the discovery of crude oil. From 1960 to 1969, the sector accounted for an average of 57% of GDP and generated 64.5% of export earnings. 

By Oghenerukevwe Udumebraye Since President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration waged an unprecedented war against corruption in 2015, the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has by its actions and inactions demonstrated unwillingness to break away from the past and adjust to the new order. The agency has consistently dragged itself into questionable transactions that have fueled […]