Implications of insecurity on real estate in Nigeria
By Zubairu Usman Sadiq The security challenge in Nigeria today, to say the least is worrisome. From the intractable Boko-Haram insurgency which has claimed thousands of lives and condemned several others to Internal Displaced Person Camps, banditry in the north-west, agitations and calls for secession in the south-east, violent clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and […]
Internally generated poverty
I am sure we have heard the news. Forbes thoroughly slaughtered Nigeria as an investment destination, naming our dear country as where to go if you really want to lose money. After the damage from two major studies in 2018 that left us with the label of the poverty capital of the planet, with a desperate need for investment capital to help turn things around, this is a sucker punch. Forbes dubs Nigeria Africa’s money losing the machine.
Local governments in Nigeria’s federal democracy
The ongoing debate on local governments in the country could end in a cul de sac if the crucial dimensions of the subject are not explicated and addressed. The trigger for the current debate is the directive of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) that, effective from June 1st, all funds from the Federation Account allocated to the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) be credited directly into each LGA’s account. According to reports in newspapers, NFIU’s intervention seeks to put a stop to the widespread practice of State governments hi-jacking the funds allocated to LGAs from the centre through the States Joint Local Government Account (SJLGA) that they control. And blatant stealing of LGA funds in a few cases have also been reported.
The task before Buhari
The lack of a speech makes it difficult to hold Buhari on to anything but that doesn’t make him immune from any form of responsibility to Nigerians
Need for Speaker with no baggage
NIGERIA has faced many challenges since the advent of democracy in 1999 to the present time. Issues of national identity, economic downturn, insecurity, infrastructure deficit, comatose education, poor healthcare, migration, have stared the nation in the face. Never has the country faced so much sense of despondency as we are all experiencing at the moment.
The Economist: Contemporary Nigeria is not the one of years’ past
By Philip Agbese The Economist magazine has finally lost the battle of pretence in which it seeks to project itself as a respectable, objective, balanced and unbiased international publication that elites can trust to make decisions. It took President Muhammadu Buhari to precipitate the Economist’s defeat in the war the publication has been fighting against […]
