Girls In Nigeria Are Not Protected By the Law – It’s Time For Change, By Adaeze C. Oreh
The contradictions and loopholes in our laws and customs around consent, marriage and child rights are making life miserable and dangerous for too many of our girls. In my view, nothing will change without purposeful and determined leadership – which would start from updating our legislation in line with current…
Preliminary Notes On #RevolutionNow, By Edwin Madunagu
...how do we assess #RevolutionNow? We may begin by asserting that proclamations of revolutions are not new. In fact, in certain circumstances, a proclamation is necessary, if not mandatory — if it is a “people’s revolution” or a “revolution of the people.” But this proclamation is made not to herald…
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Nigeria’s Judges: Getting Set To Cast the Final Votes Of the 2019 Elections, By Chidi Odinkalu
Democracy may be about choices and decisions by citizens in theory. As practised in Nigeria, however, what is clear from these three seasons is that there is very little room in it for the average citizen. If they is anything, citizens are mostly spectators. Every election cycle in Nigeria has…
Nigeria: More of the Centrifugal Than The Centripetal, By Banji Ojewale
What obtains now is a killer atmosphere. Atop it is an indolent centre breeding equally indolent outposts in its own image across the land. This machinery has turned us all into beggars in a land literally flowing with ‘milk and honey’. It is a monster of government bureaucracy now challenged…
When Your Enemies Fight, Don’t Pray For Peace, By Owei Lakemfa
While the UAE is busy playing with fire across the world, it may irritate the huge crocodile in the Arabia Peninsula, which may react. Whatever the case, the actions of the UAE may give the rest of Yemen rest from the ceaseless massacres it is being subjected to. Yemen was…
Nigerian Banks: Emefiele 2.0, By Rafiq Raji
"By advancing new measures, pushing banks to extend their lending activities, the CBN is filling the policy void in the prolonged absence of a new cabinet. Unfortunately, neither the new minimum loan-to-deposit ratio nor the reduced maximum amount for which banks will receive interest on their deposits with the CBN…
Not Every Government Policy Is Bad, By ‘Tope Fasua
...no matter how far we are in opposition to government, we must at least take note that even dead clocks are right at least twice a day. Taking a diametrically opposed view to every policy, especially as it pertains to the economy, damages our us of that intellectual garb we…
Rochas Okorocha: Playing the Ostrich On the Road To Perdition, By Uche Igwe
Beyond seizing a few properties from Mr. Rochas Okorocha and his family, the Ihedioha administration should establish a panel to comprehensively investigate and audit the former administration in the State. I can bet that the extent of decay that will be revealed will send shock waves across the He can…
The Army-Police War: Where Is the NSA?, By Yushau A. Shuaib
As the coordinating organ of government on security matters, ONSA should step in and manage this crisis, more professionally and with experience, especially in the absence of a federal cabinet, as the ministers of Defence and that of Interior are yet to be sworn in. “Our country is bedevilled… (by)…
VP Osinbajo: Why Charity Must Begin At Home, By Olabisi Deji-Folutile
Since the VP has done a good job of helping poor Nigerians with his superlative performance, this is a clarion call on him to spare a thought for the children in his home State, particularly pupils in Ikenne local government, by helping them clear the books donated to them by…
