Reinstated Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido [PHOTO CREDIT: @sanusilamidoofficial] The  Emirate, which predates the Nigerian state, is not a product of statute and cannot therefore be disbanded by statute, as the Ganduje government did. The government can remove Emirs with…

Nigerian Governors Forum – NGF So far in the year, states have received N379.41 billion, N366.950 billion, N398.689 billion and N403 billion as statutory allocations from FAAC for January, February, March and April respectively, amounting to a total of N1.548…

It’s a Sunday morning in May in downtown Accra, capital of Ghana. I’m in a Church auditorium. Strangely for an African Pentecostal assembly, there are subdued acoustics. The preacher’s message is electronically transmitted. But it is solemnly controlled to stay…

Mummy, my nights are punctuated by thoughts of you. I know you were fulfilled, and you said so. I don’t know what I feel but I was most unprepared for your death. I long to see you talk to me…

It wasn’t five months after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took office when folks started asking, ‘how far?’ In middle class and elite social circles in Nigeria, that question, or its variant – ‘how market?’ – is often reserved for people…

My suggestions on the re-framing of international relations are along the lines of what I might call “peaceful multilateralism.”… Simply put, peaceful multilateralism refers to the ability and willingness of sovereign nations to work together to solve the toughest challenges…

My suggestions on the re-framing of international relations are along the lines of what I might call “peaceful multilateralism.”… Simply put, peaceful multilateralism refers to the ability and willingness of sovereign nations to work together to solve the toughest challenges…

Glover Memorial Hall, was one of the venues for the fundraisers by women in colonial Lagos. Several war relief funds such as the Nigerian Overseas Contingent Comforts Fund, Cameroons Meat Fund, Nigeria Aeroplane Fund, Prince of Wales War Fund, King…

Picture credit: AFP. …the prospect of a successful coup in the DRC is inconceivable, as it would exacerbate the country’s insecurity and further destabilise the region. African peace, security, and democratic stakeholders must remain vigilant with regard to any ‘breaking…

Professor Sam Aluko. Though the short-comings of our development process include policy inconsistency as well as wrong policy prescription and articulation, the real problem is with policy implementation. Thousands of government projects which were initiated two or more decades ago,…

In all three, the aircraft crash landed and burst into fire. But the thing about death is that even “in the midst of death, there is life, and that should shock us” – a reversal of the original saying by…

The proposal for the creation of State Police has been a subject of intense debate in the last decade or more. This, in part, can be attributed to the rise of armed attacks orchestrated by diverse interests either pursuing divisive…

An unprecedented rise in inflation has destroyed the disposable incomes of households and pushed many families into poverty. Spiralling inflation is having a devastating impact on all, but especially on households in the lower rungs of the working class, who…

The absence of relevant surveys makes commenting on so many aspects of life in Nigeria that much harder. By how much has the incidence of inflation since the Tinubu government came into office hurt consumer spending in the country? By…

A plan to marry off 100 girls, orphaned by the surge of banditry in a local government in Niger State, has ignited public outrage and concern over its legality from human rights advocates. There is no iota of verifiable evidence…