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With the consequences of Brexit and an increasingly inward-looking United States still unfolding, 2017 is likely to be an economically tumultuous year. Some African countries, however, could see sustainable growth beyond the usual narrative of Africa alternatively “rising” and …

Almost two years after it came on board, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has commenced payment of N5,000 monthly stipends it promised to poor Nigerians and the unemployed. The development was substantially embedded in the campaign promises of the ruling …

If you are the serious type who cares about healthy conversations online, you need to go through these ideas, commit to them and that way you can better enjoy your time on Twitter/social media.

1. Create your own space:Be intentional

On that 30th April 2014 when diverse citizens gathered to march in solidarity, no one could have imagined that any out of our 219 Chibok Girls abducted from their secondary school in April 2014 would remain in captivity of …

Capital is very expensive in Nigeria:

Nigeria is a tough place to start a business, and even a much tougher place to run one. When you check the World Bank’s annual Ease of Doing Business Report, you’d actually see that …

For much of the past year, Nigeria’s economy, the largest on the continent, has been mired in a recession. Shocked mainly by a fall in the price of oil, the country’s biggest export, and a resumption of militancy…

Last year, a public survey of elections by the Pan-African research network Afrobarometer showed Africans distrusted national electoral commissions and the quality of their elections. Just over 40% of Africans in 36 countries believed that the last elections in their …

This is a fact that will shock you: Kaduna States federal allocation for April, 2016 was N2.4bn and its civil service wage bill for the same month was N2.2bn. To put this in context, if the state relied on federal …

A Nigerian lawmaker requested a loan of N130m from a well-known commercial bank. The purpose of the loan was to enable him pay off his loan with another bank and also have the balance to bridge an “urgent financial gap.” …