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Process as Policy: Why Nigeria’s 2025 Licensing Round signals new era for energy industry

By Abayomi Awobokun The conclusion of Nigeria’s 2025 Licensing Round represents far more than the award of upstream acreage. It marks another significant milestone in the evolution of Nigeria’s petroleum industry and reinforces an important truth: strong institutions and transparent processes are the foundation upon which sustainable investment is built. For decades, Nigeria possessed some of […]
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Saraki’s wife and the conspiracy theory

MRS Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, was, recently, the guest of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged case of corruption.

When the Senators Visited Maiduguri

Only God knows how the Senators managed the information around the visit. They took the entire nation by surprise. The delegation of the Upper legislative body got to Maiduguri before we all knew that the lawmakers were ready to dare the odds and visit the war theatre where some insurgents who operate under the name ‘Western’Education is bad’ – Boko Haram are subjecting their fellow human beings to agony, pains, deprivation, poverty and destruction.

Polio: Now we’ve won the battle, the war is ours to win

On July 25, Nigeria celebrated a milestone in our country’s health sector: an entire year without any reported case of polio. The World Health Organisation defines poliomyelitis (polio) as a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly affects young children.

Cultism, corruption and politicans

SECRET cults exist in traditional societies of south of Nigeria,often as instruments of social control, and influence, for the betterment of society. For example, there are Cults like the Ogboni, Oro, Egugun, Agemo, Awo-Opa,Eno-Orugbo, in the South West, Kamalu, Mmanwu, Okonko, Ekpe, Ijere, in the South East, Nfam, Igbe, Oghere-Uke, Ekpo,Oje, in the South South of Nigeria.

MOUAU @ 23: The Edeoga factor

WEAKENED by delusion and battered by technology, the university world is going through a difficult period generally. At a deeper level, less obvious to the lay observer, disquiet is spreading among dons, together with a degree of dissatisfaction among students even more profound than their occasional speculators seem to indicate, in almost all universities across the world.

Salary arrears as a misnomer

NOT quite infrequently you get to read of oxymora as news report from Nigerian dailies. Several news outlets are reporting on an ongoing but serious economic sabotage of the working class wherein the practice of Nigeria’s employment law is observed in its breach. The trending but incredulous revelation is that wages are being withheld on a widespread scale. The worrisome claim is that the very watchdog hired by the sovereigns, and empowered by the constitution, that is the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government are neck deep in an unholy practice of withholding wages of workers.

A dying breed: Emma Ezeazu!

EMMA Ezeazu who was buried in Onitsha, southeast Nigeria, on July 4 was one of the staunchest activists of the radical student and civil society movements in Nigeria. His death came as a shock not just to me and many of his comrades, friends and colleagues but to people who knew him only by name […]

Revisiting our cradle, rebuilding our nation: The place of ethics and values in national rebirth

I am not a believer in coincidence; I am more inclined to believe that our lives’ steps are ordered by the Infinite Intelligence that we all call God, and so in my own case, my date with Destiny took place one afternoon according to my father when a customer in the person of Pa Enoch O. Dare walked into my father’s shop in Akure to buy books, and his first encounter with my father changed the course of my life.

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