‘Ghost’ beneficiaries beneficiaries of N33/7bn cash transfer
• Doubts over whether billions in benefits reached poor Nigerians By Dele Sobowale The N33.75 billion transfer controversy, now rocking the nation, is neither new, nor did the massive fraud stop in 2026. The well-oiled and entrenched mechanisms for transferring public funds, meant for poverty alleviation, into the bottomless pockets of public servants, continues till today […]
The NIPSS question: Premier think tank or adult reformatory?
By OZUMI ABDUL In September 2023, Vice President Kashim Shettima made a blunt yet revealing statement that sent ripples through Nigeria’s policy and governance circles. While hosting the management team of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, led by its Director-General, Professor Ayo Omotayo, the Vice President cautioned that the institute must not […]
Foreign medical treatment and self-colonising mentality of Nigerian leaders
By Temidayo Akinsuyi A family friend of ours was admitted to a hospital in the United Kingdom last year. She had driven her children to school, but upon arriving, couldn’t get out of the car. Concerned parents alerted the school authorities, and paramedics quickly responded. She was admitted to the Royal Infirmary Hospital in Leicester. […]
Senate bound by order of Justice Nyako to recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan forthwith
The Senate is under a legal duty to recall the Senator in accordance with section 287(3) of the Constitution which stipulates as follows
A Drumbeat for Memory: African performance, diasporic healing and Nganga’s cultural intervention in the UK
After the genocide in Rwanda, a small group of women gathered under a tree in a rural village outside Kigali. There were no therapists, no counsellors. Instead, the women began to sing
The coalition, Wike and political drama
By SUNNY IKHIOYA Politics and drama are related. All politics is drama. The only difference is that while one is entertaining, informing and educating, the other is happening in real life, with the ordinary citizens bearing the brunt of it all. To the politicians, it is all a game that they play every election cycle. That […]
