SENATOR Mohammed Sani Musa’s anti-social media bill now making its way through Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber in the Senate is worse than a throwback to the worst years of Nigeria’s experience of military rule. It is a hubristic act of inter-generational warfare that must be resisted and defeated.

By Richard Murphy As a first, Nigeria is not a banana republic where everything goes. There are laid down rules and regulations. There is a Constitution that also guides our actions and inactions, just like in the majority of the world where there is a democracy. The piece by Bertrand Perrochet, the director of operations […]

By Onome Amawhe Of all the commands in the Nigerian Police Force, Lagos holds the status of being the most strategic with its status as the nation’s economic capital. Deploying a commissioner to head the command is not a decision lightly taken as the performance or lack of almost aggregates to the general performance of […]

“Today, I am pleased to inaugurate 43 new Ministers who will work with me and the Vice President in our service to the people of Nigeria.

DREDGING the Calabar port has flared a lot of controversies because some parties involved argue that the process of awarding the contract was fundamentally flawed. Some of the controversies relate to contravention of the bidding process whereby the bidders did not adhere strictly to due process. In some cases the manner of awarding the contract was not satisfactory to either the Bureau of Public Enterprises or the Nigerian Ports Authority. Also, those who control the levers of power were often accused of hijacking the process of the contract award and come out triumphant. For instance, the management of NPA had accused some of brazenly contravening the Public Procurement Act’s laid down rules. All these factors conspired to produce the ignoble start-and-stop syndrome in the award, reaward and execution of the Calabar port dredging.