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The rerun follows the August 8 presidential election which was annulled by the Supreme Court citing irregularities after a case was …
Continue readingInternational arbitrators appear to have ruled against Ghana’s constitutional provisions designed to ensure the country’s parliament signs off major contracts, and have awarded a foreign investor a huge settlement. Luke Peterson reports.
It is unusual for a country’s constitution to
by Patrick Egwu
It is 11:30am, and traders and buyers from all over West Africa are making their way to the Ariaria market in Aba, a bustling commercial hub in Nigeria’s southeastern Abia state.
“Your shoes here! Your shoes here!
When George Orwell’s widely acclaimed Animal Farm was published in 1945, Nigeria had existed as a nation for about three decades, still under British rule. Though Orwell’s muse was events prior to the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s Soviet Union, nothing …
Continue readingIt has become expedient to deconstruct some and outright falsehood being peddled in the media about the decision of the Federal Government to terminate a pilotage agreement between the Nigerian Ports Authority and Integrated Logistics Services Limited (Intels). When a …
Continue readingHadiza Bala Usman shot to prominence as a leading figure of the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign, a driving force of what became a global movement to secure the return of 276 schoolgirls abducted by terror group Boko
When Afrobeat beat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, made the now historic submission that corruption in the form of authority stealing constituted a far greater threat to Nigeria’s development than armed robbery, little did he know that he was being prophetic. …
Continue readingIf news and reports coming out of the Democratic Republic of Congo are anything to go by, the baton of big brands and their failure to create value for local (smaller) partners in Africa is now being held by telecoms …
Continue readingIn the next few weeks, the annual ritual of budget presentations by the federal government and sub-national governments would commence and Kaduna State from every indication will be the first to present its budget. Kaduna State has undoubtedly given a …
Continue readingDemocracies have been on the wrong end of the publicity stick in recent decades. The rapid economic expansion in relatively autocratic countries like China, Singapore, and South Korea in the 1970s has implanted the idea that democracies might not be …
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