The Thread: ‘If Nigeria drills ONE barrel of oil, NASS gets N115 billion’

BudgIT Nigeria – the civic organisation set up to simplify budgets and data for the benefit of Nigerians – is on a mission to ensure accountability amongst elected public officers. At this time, the National Assembly (NASS) is in their cross hairs. See below: 1. When a citizen asked an elected official for details of what... Read More

Budgit, Hon Ayo omidiran, national assembly, nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili, public officials, transparency

September 25, 2016

Ayo Sogunro: Public officials have only 3 reactions to a challenge: ban it, fine it, or jail it

Once again, I am constrained to consider the University of Lagos and its increasingly intolerant attitude towards student rebellion. I have previously written on this in reference to the school’s high-handedness when it dealt with the aftermath of a student protest. I was–and still I’m–astonished by the degree of repression imposed by the university’s Senate.... Read More

education, public officials, Unilag senate

May 16, 2016

Opinion: The problem with Buhari is that he is rather too full of himself

You know what they say about democracy being ‘a government of the people, by the people and for the people’? Where the electorates are given the ultimate choice to choose who govern over the affairs of the state; where the divine gift of freewill is laid bare without coercion or duress; where people are the... Read More

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