Can Nigeria build new millionaires through Dangote IPO?
By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA Nigeria has a long, painful, and largely unreported history with shares. The promise of ownership has repeatedly been used to separate ordinary citizens from their savings, and the consequences have rarely been visited upon those responsible. Between 2007 and 2009, an estimated N800 billion was funnelled into private placements that promised future […]
Rulers now to use words, not budgets
By VICTOR DADA For centuries, governance has been equated with budgets, how much a government can spend, borrow, -allocate, or distribute. Nations are judged by the size of their annual appropriations, not by the quality of their developmental intelligence. Yet history and comparative institutional analysis confirm a persistent truth: no volume of public expenditure has ever permanently […]
Senate’s push for death penalty against kidnappers
By Henry Obetta IN response to rising security threats across the country, the Senate has taken a series of steps aimed at strengthening internal peace and stability. Central to these efforts is a move to classify kidnapping as an act of terrorism and to prescribe the death penalty for kidnappers, their financiers and informants. The […]
Dangote’s N1trn investment for Nigeria’s next generation
By Abiodun Alade BY any global standard, Nigeria’s education crisis is not merely a social problem. It is an economic emergency. When Aliko Dangote announced a N100 billion annual education support initiativeamounting to more than N1 trillion over a decade and projected to reach 1.3 million Nigerian students-the figures were arresting. But the deeper significance […]
Ekiti’s Turnaround: Governor Oyebanji’s 3-Year Scorecard
Just three years into his tenure, Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s leadership in Ekiti State has been a breath of fresh air. At the helm in Okebareke, Ado-Ekiti, he’s been dishing out purposeful governance with a populist twist that’s got the people nodding in approval. The doubters have been proven wrong, and public confidence is soaring. ROTIMI […]
DELTA 2027: Rotation has come to stay!
By Felix Eshalomi DELTA State can be regarded as the cradle of rotation amongst the Senatorial zones in our political culture. The origin began during the commencement of the Fouth Republic in 1999 with Chief James Onanefe Ibori at the helms of affairs. Chief Ibori was from the majority tribe in Delta Central Senatorial district, […]
