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December 22, 2016

Opinion: How realistic is Buhari’s 2017 budget estimates?

by Jide Ojo On December 14, 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari presented financial estimates of N7.3tn to the National Assembly.  The financial plan was labelled as the Budget of Recovery and Growth. It is based on a benchmark crude oil price of US$42.5 per barrel; an oil production estimate of 2.2 million barrels per day; and... Read More
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December 22, 2016

YNaija Says: The Kaduna killings must stop

On the 19th of December 2016, youths came out in their numbers in Kafanchan, Kaduna State to protest the incessant and unabated killings carried out in their communities by faceless Fulani herdsmen. Their peaceful protest was however disrupted when another group attacked their protest. This lead to several injuries and the destruction of several properties... Read More
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December 21, 2016

Opinion: Okonjo-Iweala still “in office”

by Tope Bankole When one continues to forge ahead on a glorious pedestal in spite of detracting fellows who conjure snags, it becomes worthy of discussion, praise and emulation. This is the case with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whose profile continues to soar abroad despite undue... Read More
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December 21, 2016

Opinion: Senate, SERAP, Ibrahim Magu and the dearth and death of CSO’s in Nigeria

by Jude Ndukwe The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, recently wrote a letter to Mr Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on Senate’s refusal to confirm Mr Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, claiming political and other concocted reasons for the said... Read More
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December 21, 2016

Opinion: 2017 State House budget analysis

by Saatah Nubari The first time this budget analysis series ran was for the 2016 budget; and it becomes visible each day that the 1810 page document was a horrid, hurriedly-put, corrupt-conduit-filled piece of executive cluelessness. Well, since I’m more of a realist than any of the other-ists, I’ll just say that the fact that the... Read More
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December 21, 2016

Opinion: Solomon Dalung | The mascot and Buhari’s experiment with mediocrity

by Emmanuel Ugwu Solomon Dalung is not a divisive public figure by any stretch of the imagination. There is near-unanimity of opinion about his utility as Nigeria’s minister of sports. The kooky man with a fetish for red beret and khaki is the mascot of President Buhari’s administration. He is the poster child of the shambolic game... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu: As Buhari fights corruption without a strategy

by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu President Buhari’s much-advertised fight against corruption has degenerated into a demolition derby. As happened with many previous efforts to fight corruption in Nigeria, different outposts of power and influence in the president’s coterie appear determined to use anti-corruption as a cover to settle intra-palace scores. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Ayo Sogunro: In Nigeria, we’re still wrong about rights

by Ayo Sogunro Quite often, I have found myself compelled to defend the fundamentals of human rights to supposedly educated people in Nigeria. A clear demonstration of the declining quality of our “educated” middle class is the generic ignorance of foundational social concepts, particularly on the rule of law and the sanctity of human rights.... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Open letter to Mrs Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment

by Hamzat Lawal   Dear Honourable Minister, I wish to use this medium to congratulate you on your appointment as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. It is an honour well-deserved. It is also an elevation that naturally stirs mixed feelings in some of us who are very much aware of what Nigeria stands... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Opinion: My three days experience of the humanitarian crisis in Borno

by Dozie Nwafor For more than 8 years now, Nigeria has battled insurgency from extremist group Boko Haram who has operated majorly in the North-East, killing thousands and destroying properties worth millions. In more recent times, the military forces have subdued these terrorists, greatly reducing the frequency of their attacks and liberating territories formerly occupied... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Reuben Abati: #Bidoung Challenge – Sycophancy reigns supreme in Africa

by Reuben Abati Cameroonians got their chance of introducing into the syllabus of Comedy and Other Comic Forms (a subject I taught in my other career), what seemed like a variant of the domestic nature of humour and wit, when in the last week and more days, they forced humour out of what seemed like... Read More
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December 20, 2016

YNaija Says: Arik Air is a disgrace, an embarrassment, and should be shut down

Arik Air has to be the worst airline to come out of Nigeria in recent times. Their incompetence is on a whole different level and it appears they are either oblivious to it or they just do not care. For a company that prides itself as Nigeria’s biggest airline and the ‘Wings of Nigeria’, they... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Nonso Obikili: Colonial legacies, the federal government, and the moral high ground

by Nonso Obikili The past is inescapable. We all know the origins of what we today refer to as the federal government. Starting with the annexation of Lagos in 1861, the British, through military and other coercive means, gained almost complete control of the area we call Nigeria today. By 1901, almost all of the... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Opinion: A year in review- what it means to be female in nigeria

by Mary Olushoga Nigeria has a long way to go when it comes to supporting women’s rights and gender equality. Religion and culture affect how women are treated in society. These factors often hinder progress. This year was especially challenging for women and girls around the world. The world’s remaining superpower, the United States of America... Read More
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December 20, 2016

LONG READ: Is there anything redeemable about Dino Melaye?

by Wilfred Okiche Should you look hard on the Internet, there are many instances where Dino Melaye, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is behaving if not badly, then at least suspiciously. And no the pictures of him rolling on the floor of a church or videos in which he is recorded, dancing merrily... Read More
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December 20, 2016

Today’s Noisemakers: Mo Abudu, Japheth Omojuwa, @JajaPhd and others

Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters, etc. They range from the awesome and brilliant to the OMG, he didn’t. We have made it our job to take down the names of... Read More
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December 19, 2016

Rotimi Fawole: Corruption- How to suspend fair hearing & the presumption of innocence

by Rotimi Fawole Our constitution gets a great deal of bashing, especially when reform is the subject being discussed. It’s not a perfect document — there is no perfect constitution at any rate — but it is actually quite robust, particularly in the matter of the rights of the individual citizen. Many of our political... Read More
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December 19, 2016

Victor Asemota: Terra Incognita -who moved our dots?

Terra Incognita — Latin for “Unknown Land” “HIC SVNT DRACONES” — “Here Be Dragons” Mark Shuttleworth is an African and he founded “Canonical”, the creators of Ubuntu the World famous Linux distribution. He also founded HBD Venture Capital. HBD stands for “Here Be Dragons”. According to the great resource called Wikipedia “Here be dragons” means dangerous... Read More
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December 19, 2016

Opinion: Legal implications of the Senate’s rejection of Magu’s nomination

by Inibehe Effiong On Thursday December 15, 2016 the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria held an executive session during which it rejected the nomination of Mr Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by President Muhammadu Buhari based on an adverse ‘’security report’’ authored by the State Security... Read More
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