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Last Friday, pictures emerged from the UK showing President Bola Tinubu seated in what appeared to be a private office. He was dressed in a casual navy blue zip-up jacket and matching baseball cap, seemingly…
The evolution of regulations in healthcare has been a complex and iterative process, influenced by several factors including advances in medicine and technology, shifting social and economic conditions, and evolving political and public attitudes. Healthcare regulations have developed to address…
According to the National Sports Policy 2022 of the Federal Government, sport has been reclassified as a sustainable and relevant industry, rather than just a recreational activity. This change has led to a renewed focus on the critical role that…
One ridiculous point some Nigerians raise any time they want to prove their supremacy over Ghana is that Ghana is the size of one state in Nigeria. And many people who don’t bother to investigate things lap it up and…
The story of Access is that of two audacious young men who chose to dream, follow up on their dreams by taking on the industry in a different and unprecedented way…. Between both men, they took on a path that…
In Nigeria, many policies that are supposed to catalyse economic growth end up making things worse and complicate matters for the citizen for whom these policies are designed to enhance their quality of life. Recently, two significant policies typify this:…
In a significant move aimed at fostering economic growth and self-reliance, President Tinubu’s administration has announced its intention to support local companies in the production of the Nigerian passport. Under the leadership of Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Ministry of Interior…
It is in the spirit of restructuring, of building the Nigerian pyramid from the bottom up, that Adesina’s call for the renaming of the country as the United States of Nigeria should be understood. What we have at the moment…
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) How do we then nudge Nigerians away from the conviction that rising prices are the hallmark of a growing economy? Put differently, how do we anchor domestic inflation expectations? Arguably, the easiest response is to…
Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) instructed banks operating in the country to shore up their paid-up capital. Over the 24 months to end-March 2026, banks are requested to raise their minimum capital to anything from N500 billion…
Bobrisky. Photo credit: EFCC …the leadership of the Commission clearly abused the sacred instrument of prosecutorial prerogative and showed itself as either idle or misguided, if not both. When this was brough to their attention, they descended into threats, bluster and…
In recent years, the global discourse on climate change has intensified, and its profound impact on human health is becoming increasingly evident. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in Nigeria, where the nexus between climate change and health poses significant…
Today, all economies in the world are open to each other. Thanks to globalisation which makes the practice of autarky impossible. Japan and China, at different periods and levels of development, were able to close their economies with little interaction…
Image credit: cpt.org Does blood not flow through the veins of Arabs and Muslims in the same way that it flows through the veins of Westerners and Christians?.. Is the blood of Westerners redder than the blood of Arabs?… Do…
President Bola Tinubu It is one reticular hoop. One niche subsisting on the other; one outcome depending on the other and vice versa, and one thread cascading down on the others. A breathing filament runs through the nexus of security,…
Bobrisky In the 19th century and even before, Bobriskys were lynched like common criminals. Their sin was their considered unusual sexuality. Until then, homosexual activities were classified as “unnatural crime against nature,” while sodomy got punished with, sometimes the death…
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