Sustaining EFCC and ICPC rebound: A critical analysis
By Zainab Suleiman Okino The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has persistently drawn sharp criticism for its glaring lack of proactivity, blatant politicization of […]
Column / Opinion
Tragedies foretold, by Nick Dazang
Their timing – at the eve of Christmas – was most inauspicious and most painful.They went against the very grain and spirit of Christmas, to […]
Seven big scores of Mala Buni, by Mahmud Jega
For a man who doesn’t talk much, it is worth listening when he finally speaks out. Mai Mala Buni has been Governor of Yobe State […]
Why Nigerians no longer want to pay tax (1) by Hassan Gimba
There is this hullabaloo that has enveloped the country, with debates all over, in some instances threatening to degenerate into fisticuffs. It is all about […]
Ivory toweritis, by Nick Dazang
Once upon a time, it was the privileged members of the academia who reportedly lived in the Ivory Tower. Ensconced in their groove of academe, […]
Who feels uneasy by achievements of TETFund?
By Johnson Momodu The legendary Nelson Mandela did describe education as a formidable weapon useful to positively reset the stability and progression of society and […]
Cry not, North, smell the coffee and act, Hassan Gimba
The topic on everybody’s, well, almost everybody’s, lips now is tax reform. Everybody has become an expert, so everyone is discussing it: the experts, the neophytes, and […]
Thoughts on Ghana and Syria, by Nick Dazang
Twenty twenty four must go down, in our annals, as the year of elections and turmoil.The year, 2024, is touted by the experts as the […]
Behold, all the devils are here! by Osmund Agbo
Just over a month ago, Donald Trump was re-elected as president United States of America. For many, myself included, despair now feels like a constant […]
Teachable moments in Ghana election, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
Beyond their playful rivalries over jollof rice and football supremacy, Ghana and Nigeria share profound historical, cultural, and political trajectories that have shaped West Africa’s […]
Audacity of the unyielding voices, by Mairo M. Mudi
The youth would forever be silenced but for… Time, the great leveler, inexorably degrades everything, including the most vaunted forms of power, leaving even the […]
A legend departs, by Nick Dazang
Two days to the consequential American presidential election that witnessed Donald Trump’s comeback, Quincy Delight Jones Jnr. passed on at the age of ninety one.Though […]
Nigeria, the EPL and the contradictions, by Hassan Gimba
When ideas, statements, or policies emanating from one source are opposed to one another, conflicting or inconsistent, then we have contradictions. I want to start […]
Never again!, by Nick Dazang
When this writer had nearly concluded that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration was marble-hearted and that it was deaf and mute, it turned out […]