Atiku’s Border Promise: Between political expediency and Nigeria’s national interest
By Okey IBEKE Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s promise to reopen Nigeria’s land borders if elected president in 2027 may appeal to traders and border communities who depend on cross-border commerce. But the promise raises a more important question: what exactly does he intend to reopen? The Federal Government has challenged the premise of the […]
EDO: The futility of defence
By John Mayaki Times are no longer the same, the change stirring political discourse to the direction of unnecessary comparisons, instead of the material substance of achievements. It is for this reason that even in the face of blatant incompetence and underachievement, politicians who their underperformance should drive to the political guillotine, find themselves supported […]
There’s strength and unity in diversity…
Only recently, when the first batch of 187 Nigerian returnees from South Africa, as a result of the Xenophobic attacks in that country returned to their fatherland – Nigeria, there was something spectacular about the unity and oneness of this country that I carefully observed which also drew tears from my eyes.
Ogun Agro-preneurs: Inside Dapo Abiodun’s scheme to feed nation
It is the dawn of a new era in Ogun State where efforts are in top gear to achieve self-sufficiency in food production.
Why local government autonomy is non-negotiable
By Busari Faiza Taiye and Busari Hamidah Kehinde Local government administration in Nigeria has undergone several reforms, for various reasons, to achieve certain objectives since 1954 when this tier of government received statutory approval by virtue of the Native Law Ordinance of that year. For instance, the 1967 reform arose from the need to effect […]
Neoliberalism is the bane of Nigeria
As PMB constitutes his ‘five-star’ economic advisory economic council, a look at content and not form; is this not more of the same. Has PMB finally abandoned autarky?
