Opinion: How Brexit will affect Nigeria

by SBM Intelligence People talk about political earthquakes. The UK’s decision to end its relationship with the European Union is not so much an earthquake, just for Britain, but a tsunami for the whole world. Britain’s place in the world will shift, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland itself, may come... Read More

Brexit, EU, nigeria, uk

June 23, 2016

Opinion: How Governor Dickson wrecked his state with wire-tapping

by Peresuo D. Fubara For a state governor ever vociferous and self-assured – sometimes thoughtlessly so – in the murky terrain of Nigerian politics, Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State could not have had anything short of the awesome high-tech capabilities described in a detailed 9 June, 2016 report by Premium Times. Entitled “How Governors Dickson, Okowa... Read More

Bayelsa, dickson, governors, security, Seriake, state, surveillance

June 23, 2016

Opinion: Before we lose the gains in the pension industry | A look into PenCom and Chidi Duru

Written by Chidi Okoye So once, I was in transit, going past the secretariat of a certain state government when lo and behold, I spotted something that was to haunt me for a long time to come. In fact, it has haunted me to this very day. Sprawling on the tarmac in front of the secretariat... Read More

chidi, commission, duru, Fraud, money, nigeria, opinion, Pension

June 23, 2016

Opinion: The slow death of Nigeria’s endangered languages

Many linguists predict that at least half of the world’s 6,000 or so languages will be dead or dying by the year 2050. Languages are becoming extinct at twice the rate of endangered mammals and four times the rate of endangered birds. If this trend continues, the world of the future could be dominated by... Read More

Ebira, endangered language, hausa, Ibo, Isa Eneye Mubarak, languages, Miniroity, nigeria, Yoruba

June 23, 2016

Odusola Dibu-Ojerinde: Remembering a great woman nine years after

by Moses Adebayo Alao “There is no death, my daughter. People only die only when we forget them.” –Isabel Allende Not many Nigerians might know or have read the works of Isabel Allende, a Chilean-American writer, but some of her words carry so much meaning as to make her an icon, especially for the women... Read More

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June 22, 2016

Femi Falana: The limit of Ayo Fayose’s immunity

Sometime in 2004, Governor Ayo Fayose was reported by The News magazine to have stolen N1.2 billion from the coffers of Ekiti State government. The brutal killings in the state were also traced to a killer squad funded by the governor. Embarrassed by the publication, Mr. Fayose sued the magazine at the high court holden... Read More

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Ayo Fayose, femi falana, immunity

June 22, 2016

Eloghosa Osunde: ‘Madness’ (POETRY)

By Eloghosa Osunde Your mother thinks your father will drive her mad. She says it all the time. You have all left, or are leaving. Maybe I need to give birth to another child. What do you think? Can you imagine me alone in this house with the man? You look at her when you ask.... Read More

children, Eloghosa Osunde, father, home, leaving, mad, mother, opinion

June 22, 2016

Opinion: The debate of secularism and Osun Hijab controversy

Following an Osogbo High Court judgement which allowed Muslim female students in public schools located in the State of Osun to wear hijab along with their uniform, there was tension which some had reported could have developed into religious crisis in Osun State. This tension was fanned by the appearance of Christian students from Baptist... Read More

CAN, Christians, hijab, Muslims, Osun State, RAUF AREGBESOLA, Secularism, students

June 22, 2016

Oluwatosin Olaseinde: You are fired! – Nigerian banking sector (Y! Naira&Kobo)

The economy has been contracting and is on its way to an inevitable recession in the 2nd Quarter GDP. Although we believe the recent news of favourable foreign exchange policy is about to lift the market. Prior to this news, different sectors have employed means to adjust to the prevailing macro environment – inflation reaching... Read More

banking sector, GDP, inflation, nigeria, sack

June 21, 2016

Opinion: Have you complained today?

by Richmond Okezie I’m tired; tired of waking up every morning to the voices of my ‘Ogogoro’ drinking neighbors arguing over who is a better politician between Wike and Amaechi. Tired of Lai Mohammed’s lies. Tired of Niger Delta Avengers fighting environmental degradation by blowing up oil pipelines that further degrades the environment. Tired of... Read More

June 21, 2016

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: How Andela was founded

By Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Last week was a huge milestone for African startups. A company jointly founded in Nigeria and the U.S. is getting a significant investment and attention from Mark Zuckerberg — one of the most important people in Silicon Valley. During such a pivotal moment, it is important for me to share Andela’s history and inspire many... Read More

facebook, mark zukerberg, nigeria, Start-up, story, Tech, technology, twitter.

June 21, 2016

Mark Amaza: Who killed Labour in Nigeria?

Something momentous happened on 18th May, this year. The Nigerian Labour Congress called for a nationwide general strike and hardly anyone paid heed to them. Why is this momentous? Since 1999 and up until maybe 2012, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) was the voice of the common man in Nigeria, of the masses and of... Read More

June 21, 2016

Opinion: A rejoinder to ‘The constitutional validity of freezing Fayose’s bank account’

By Ilemona Onoja I just read “An Analysis of the Constitutional Validity of Freezing Governor Fayose’s Bank Account” written by Inibehe Effiong. More than half of the time I was reading, my mouth was open in amazement. Not many times have I read judgments of the court or provisions of law being so brazenly twisted to... Read More

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constitutional, EFCC, Ekiti State, Fayose, freezing, Judiciary, legal

June 21, 2016

Opinion: Money cannot buy credibility – A note to Sokoto politicians

by Usama Dandare If Money can buy the whole world, there is indeed one thing in it that no amount of money can buy, and that is credibility. The credibility of our democracy as a whole has been diminished by the role money plays, although politics all over the world needs money, but its influence... Read More

Ahmed Aliyu, Aliyu Wamakko, Aminu Tambuwal, credibility, money, Sokoto

June 21, 2016

Inibehe Effiong: The constitutional validity of freezing Fayose’s bank account

On Monday 20th June, 2016 the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Peter Fayose, alerted the nation that his personal bank account domiciled with Zenith Bank of Nigeria Plc has been frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr. Fayose excoriated the anti-graft agency and the Federal Government of Nigeria for taking such “illegal”... Read More

Account, Ayo Fayose, Constitution, EFCC, frozen, law, president buhari

June 21, 2016

YNaija Says: Daddy Freeze’s praise of Kaylah is dangerous nonsense

In the early days of his reign as Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi has made headlines as perhaps the most accessible Ooni of all time, attending one function after another, and some are of the view that this accessibility is reducing the status of the office. His second wife Zainab, also made headlines at the... Read More

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daddy freeze, Gender equality, Kaylah, men, nigeria, Olori of Ife, women

June 20, 2016

Opinion: A letter to my brothers from the East; the pro-Biafrans

The clamor for the state of Biafra by certain young Nigerians from the south east is a reflection of the amount of dirt that has been swept underneath the carpet for many years. The agitators may be different, their approaches may also differ but their struggle is triggered by an economy that shut the gates... Read More

June 20, 2016

Opinion: Osun hijab crisis and the need to weep for Nigeria’s journalism

By Mike Ogundele Look at the newspapers on the newsstands on Wednesday June 15, 2016, reveals a depressing descent to sheer madness. There cannot be any other word to describe it. Virtually all the papers published in Lagos with the exception of The Guardian and The Nation used as front page with banner headlines the... Read More

court, government, hijab, journalism, Judiciary, Media, Osun State

June 20, 2016

Bayo Oluwasanmi: Aregbesola and his politics of hijab distraction

The illiterate governors in Nigeria have made the governors’ office a jabbering tool of all sorts. The charmingly idiotic debate on the wearing of hijab by students in public schools in Osun State decreed by the Moslem Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, aka Ogbeni, and sanctioned by a judge of a corrupt judicial system has consumed the... Read More

‘Ogbeni’, Faith, Governor, hijab, Osun State, Politics, RAUF AREGBESOLA

June 20, 2016

Opinion: A letter to my ex-lover

By Grace Festus Jude is a promising young guy; he is a first class graduate of Mass communications and he has lot of dreams for the future. One of his goals is to be a successful on air personality (OAP). Getting the right job however seems difficult as he has to be joggling between one... Read More

affection, boyfriend, Ex, Girlfriend, life, Love, Marriage, Relationships

June 20, 2016

Jude Ndukwe: President Buhari’s WAEC certificate drama and karma

By Jude Ndukwe President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate saga is getting messier by the day. Although a majority of his supporters who are now blaming themselves for imposing this willful and unfortunate reversal of fortunes on Nigeria after declaring in the run up to the last presidential election that even if the president presented a “NEPA... Read More

13 sans, Buhari, exams, Goodluck Jonathan, hypocrisy, WAEC

June 20, 2016

Ayo Sogunro: Nigeria’s shareholding formula

By Ayo Sogunro The Nigerians I compare to corporate Directors in our continuing discussion on the Hierarchy of Nigerian Policy are the elected members of government. These are federal legislators, governors and deputies, the vice-president and, of course, the president. These “Directors” can make policy and appoint sub-policymakers without consultation with, or input by the... Read More

Ayo Sogunro, Federalism, hause, igbo, nigeria, president, regional, tradtional rulers, Yoruba

June 20, 2016

Opinion: Recovering Nigeria’s refugees and IDPs: A fight worth fighting

by Olawale Rotimi Nigeria has been ranked among nations with high number of displaced persons and refugees; this record is solely linked to insecurity challenges faced by the country in the recent past, where thousands were killed by the dreadful terrorist group-Boko Haram and millions displaced across the country and beyond. At the... Read More

IDPs, Kampala convention, national assembly, nigeria, recovering, refugees, UNHCR

June 20, 2016

Opinion: The impact of the new monetary policy

By SBM Intelligence Two days ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced that it would be adopting a flexible exchange rate policy in the management of foreign exchange (FX). The guidelines to the new policy, dated 15th June, 2016, spelled out how the new policy would operate. The key highlights of the policy are listed... Read More

central bank of Nigeria, economy, Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA), Foreign Exchange Market, money, new monetary policy, nigeria

June 20, 2016

Kalu Aja: How best to budget (Y! Naira&Kobo)

So last week we learned about how to calculate out networth, i.e. what we are worth when we subtract our assets from our liabilities. This could be a negative of a positive, figure, a negative figure shows we owe more than we own, this is not always a bad thing. If we are younger and... Read More

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budget, economy, investment, money, naira&kobo, nigeria

June 20, 2016

Opinion: Of Buhari’s sick leave and a Nigerian lecturer’s sheer folly

by Mohammed Dahiru Aminu The issue is that while the fact of a president’s travel to a foreign land to seek medical treatment proves nothing but an indictment of the situation back home, a student who seeks knowledge abroad is merely conforming to long-standing, known tradition and culture of knowledge generation and sharing. Even the... Read More

abroad, education, London, nigeria, president buhari, sick leave

June 20, 2016

Opinion: A wake up call to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

By Bayo Adeyinka My dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The... Read More

biafra, Bola Ahmed, hausa, igbo, jagaban, nigeria, north, opinion, Tinubu, yoruba race

June 20, 2016

Opinion: FG’s tubers of yam and 4 other things

By Simon Kolawole The naira has just been effectively devalued — so why are some people jubilating? The way economists, financial experts, bankers and analysts were celebrating on Wednesday would make you think crude oil price had just hit $120 per barrel and Nigeria’s production level has risen to 2.5mbpd. But no. The CBN had... Read More

Buhari, CBN, dollars, economy, Emefiele, money, naira, simon kolawole

June 19, 2016

Seun Onigbinde: New FX rule and a year of ‘Yes men’

By Seun Onigbinde In Marianne M Jennings’ book – The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, she stated stern warnings that CEOs must watch out for to avoid landing in a pit. It applies to leaders in government too. A culture of fear and silence and young guns larger than life around CEOs (read leaders) are critical points that trouble great entities. Officials... Read More

Budgit, Buhari, economy, IMF, New FX rule, Niger Delta Avengers, Yes Men

Opinion: How Brexit will affect Nigeria

Opinion: How Governor Dickson wrecked his state with wire-tapping

Opinion: Before we lose the gains in the pension industry | A look into PenCom and Chidi Duru

Opinion: The slow death of Nigeria’s endangered languages

Odusola Dibu-Ojerinde: Remembering a great woman nine years after

Femi Falana: The limit of Ayo Fayose’s immunity

Opinion: Top 5 conversation killers to the sapiosexuals

Eloghosa Osunde: ‘Madness’ (POETRY)

Opinion: The debate of secularism and Osun Hijab controversy

Oluwatosin Olaseinde: You are fired! – Nigerian banking sector (Y! Naira&Kobo)

Opinion: Have you complained today?

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: How Andela was founded

Mark Amaza: Who killed Labour in Nigeria?

Opinion: A rejoinder to ‘The constitutional validity of freezing Fayose’s bank account’

Opinion: Money cannot buy credibility – A note to Sokoto politicians

Inibehe Effiong: The constitutional validity of freezing Fayose’s bank account

YNaija Says: Daddy Freeze’s praise of Kaylah is dangerous nonsense

Opinion: A letter to my brothers from the East; the pro-Biafrans

Opinion: Osun hijab crisis and the need to weep for Nigeria’s journalism

Bayo Oluwasanmi: Aregbesola and his politics of hijab distraction

Opinion: A letter to my ex-lover

Jude Ndukwe: President Buhari’s WAEC certificate drama and karma

Ayo Sogunro: Nigeria’s shareholding formula

Opinion: Recovering Nigeria’s refugees and IDPs: A fight worth fighting

Opinion: The impact of the new monetary policy

Kalu Aja: How best to budget (Y! Naira&Kobo)

Opinion: Of Buhari’s sick leave and a Nigerian lecturer’s sheer folly

Opinion: A wake up call to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Opinion: FG’s tubers of yam and 4 other things

Seun Onigbinde: New FX rule and a year of ‘Yes men’

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