‘Ghost’ beneficiaries beneficiaries of N33/7bn cash transfer
• Doubts over whether billions in benefits reached poor Nigerians By Dele Sobowale The N33.75 billion transfer controversy, now rocking the nation, is neither new, nor did the massive fraud stop in 2026. The well-oiled and entrenched mechanisms for transferring public funds, meant for poverty alleviation, into the bottomless pockets of public servants, continues till today […]
Speech: The open society endangered ― Wole Soyinka
(Being a talk delivered at the UN World Anti-Corruption Day, Abuja, Dec. 9. 2019) Present here, I fully expect, is the youth contingent of this undertaking. We are still within the United Nations designated Year of the Child, and that makes youth involvement doubly appropriate as an integral part of our encounter. This is […]
The Battle against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: Are we winning?
Ibrahim Abdulmumin Damilola HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic. It was first reported clinically on June 5, 1981, in the United States. Ever since then, it has been one of the most serious and dangerous public health threat in the world. It is easily transmitted through various means, of which sexual intercourse is the most common. […]
Minimum wage and imperatives of financial intelligence
IT is no longer news that public servants in Lagos State have started receiving the new minimum wage. With this development, Lagos has scored yet another first as the first state to pay the new wage in the country.
Good talk, Aisha Buhari; but who will bell the cat?
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable — Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
Ufot Ekaette: Garlands for a rare patriot
By Soni Daniel I can remember just like yesterday when the late Ufot Ekaette, sat me down in his Asokoro District home in Abuja on January 8, 2009, just a few days after my return from City University of London, where I had been sponsored by the Associated Press to pursue my second Master’s degree […]
