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A careful reading of the ‘2014-2016 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper: Supporting Growth and Employment Generation’, raises some grave concerns about Nigeria’s fiscal policy. All that one[…]
Two events happened last week, with different levels of public awareness and concern. The first was on Tuesday, when the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), revealed that more than half[…]
In May 2014, Nigeria will host the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa. The World Economic Forum itself is the highest level of global gathering for top-level business, academic and[…]
As a member of the Justice Uwais’ Electoral Reform Panel, Professor Attahiru Jega was the one who said, “No doubt, the popular aspirations for credible, free, fair and popularly acceptable[…]
Going by the media frenzy in the last few weeks over the purchase of vehicles worth over half a billion naira by the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, one would[…]
by Adeola Eribake I met Nigerian/German musician Nneka last June in Essaouira, Morocco. A day after her performance at the annual Gnaoua and World Music festival. We chatted about her[…]
Nigeria is one of the few – and certainly the only country of its size in the whole world – without a functional railway system. The cost of this deficiency[…]
It was rather surprising when on October 1st and in his Independence Day national address, President Goodluck Jonathan announced the setting up of a committee to work out the modalities[…]
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by Damola Fakunle I am writing to you as a concerned Nigerian nineteen year old. After having visited your website, I find it disconcerting that there is scant mention of[…]
I do not like the allure of power. I am not carried away by the limitless reach of the presidency. My head does not swell when traditional rulers whose palaces[…]