Town hall meetings, as an approach to citizens’ engagement with the government, once again, came to the fore on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, when the...
The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in hand, asking...
The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since 1999. Public Relations Consultants and media officials of this...
Overview Fossil fuels are among the most commonly used forms of energy in the world. Common fossil fuels include natural gas, coal and petroleum, which is...
I read an interesting article recently in which the author, objecting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent travels abroad pointed out that Presidential spokespersons since 1999, including...
During the Jonathan administration, an outspoken opposition spokesperson had argued that Nigeria was on auto-pilot, a phrase that was gleefully even if ignorantly echoed by an...
I’ve been away from my preoccupation with the Nigerian tragedy for a little over a week. That is because the academic unit that I head at...
“I saw something yesterday. I thought it was a joke.” “What happened?” “Nigerians and their sense of humour; we always manage to squeeze laughter out of...
Where corruption is involved, African leaders seem to be utterly beyond shock. Blacks folks in office often regard as normal business, the kind of infractions that...
Nothing so far exposes the greed, avarice and self-centredness of our ruling political class as the pension rights of States and Local Government employees. Some of...