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Effective Communication, A Necessity In Addressing National Protests – 8 Fundamental Economic…
The ongoing protests in Nigeria have highlighted a significant issue: the lack of coordinated…
Smoking while off-loading petrol
Heart surgeon, Masoud Pezeshkian, was sworn-in as President of Iran on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. His primary concern seemed to be about lifting the unilateral sanctions the United States, US, had imposed on his…
Dangote Refinery: Suffering amidst plenty, by Afe Babalola
NIGERIA is a hydrocarbon-rich nation. It is ranked by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, as the top crude oil producer in Africa as at May 2023, producing up to 1.4 million barrels of…
Understanding The AfCFTA Protocols On Intellectual Property And Patent Protection For Businesses In…
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a landmark initiative aiming to establish a…
The Tale Of Nigeria’s Dangote And India’s Ambani
The politics of monopoly and oligarchy are familiar phenomena in Nigeria and beyond. During General Sani Abacha’s military rule in the 1990s, while working at the Federal Ministry of Finance, I…
Protest: Head Or Tail, We May All End Up Losers
All hell has been let loose, and the centre can no longer hold in Kenya over the tax revolt that has been ravaging that East-African country since June. In the wake of the crisis, a part of the parliament…
The ‘Area Boys’ of Lagos
A chance encounter with “Captain” recently set you thinking. You had attended a party held by a friend to…
A hungry mob is an angry mob
Nigerians have been invited to troop to the streets in their millions from Thursday, August 1, to protest the harsh economic situation following the…
Stop This Gang-Up Against Dangote Refinery
The negative attitude of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) towards the Dangote Petroleum Refinery…
Free Our President: A Plea to Bayo Onanuga and Ajuri Ngelale
From all indications, it has been determined by the media team of President Bola Tinubu that his best approach to engagement with Nigerians, is via statements rolled out by either Bayo Onanuga or Ajuri Ngelale. Bayo…
N250,000 minimum wage: Were labour unions daydreaming?
Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased following the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic amidst subdued economic growth. According to the World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022…
NNPC Vs Dangote: Where the truth lies
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is not a stranger to adversity or its more sinister cousin, sabotage. One of the bitterest battles he has fought in the last 25 years—the cement war—was against his kinsman and…
The politics and economics of Dangote Refinery
Aliko Dangote deserves our collective support and official encouragement. I told him the day I visited his plant that he’s “an authentic African hero and a real icon, and I meant that from the bottom of my heart. As an…
Strategic use of PR: The landmark and Dangote cases as study by Joseph Edgar
Duke of Shomolu Speaks In the last twelve months, these two cases have…
Power Currency: The Conspiracy Against Bola Tinubu
By Jimoh Ibrahim What is Tinubu’s offence? The failure to use power as trading currency not leaning from Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), who imprisoned and executed those who would not sign his…
Dangote vs NNPC: Here’s what happens next
In 2019, I was covering the Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend, where Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, sat with British-Sudanese billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, to discuss everything from investing to passports, to…
Akpabio’s kleptocrats’ republic
Last Wednesday, Nigeria’s upper parliament became a grammar class where semantics, syntax and structure are examined. His Excellency, the Senate President of Nigeria, Godswill Obot Akpabio, suddenly became an…
Balancing pains and gains: Depression, Trauma and Nigeria
Since the inception of the life changing talk series, ‘Balancing Pains and Gains in the Pursuit of Happiness’ by Hon. Ike Ibe in June 2024, the…
Let The Third Tier Breathe: Implications Of The Supreme Court Verdict
The Supreme Court judgement on July 11, granting financial autonomy to the 774 local councils and recognising them as the third tier of…
Supreme Court got it wrong on LG autonomy
FEDERALISM is the imaginary bedrock of Nigeria’s constitutional democracy, designed to balance power between the centre and the sub-nationals. However, the recent judgement by the Supreme Court concerning local…
Like father like fraud
A tweet went viral last week from the fingers of lawmaker and son of former Kaduna State governor, Bello El Rufai. I did not see it until quite a few people forwarded it to men. A former minister also sent…
Three takeaways from the UK election
Many Nigerians just love the parliamentary system of government without knowing it. That was my first take-away from the UK general election, which saw the Labour Party chase the Tories out of No 10 in one of…
Congratulations LG chairpersons, immunity is next
Finally, the supreme court has liberated local government areas (LGAs) in Nigeria and paved the way for real grassroots development following its ruling on Thursday ordering the federal government to henceforth…
The unforeseen twinning of Tinubu and OBJ
Recently, a photograph of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, was all over the Internet. The world has however been left to hazard only guesses on the subject of their discussion…