THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s recent disclosure that 2.25 billion litres of petrol were sold and distributed in December 2020, translating to 72.72 million litres per day, graphically exposes the thriving activities of smugglers in th...
ON the back of security threats, especially the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, Nigeria has consistently ploughed vast resources into defence spending in the past decade. The outcome has been chiefly underwhelming. Despite billions of dollars being a...
WITH one out of every three persons of working age unemployed, Nigeria is on the verge of a major social crisis. Already notoriously dubbed the world poverty capital, the self-styled ‘Giant of Africa’ is on its way to becoming the ‘world unemployment...
ANARCHY is rapidly gathering momentum in the country and there are many reasons to be fretful. Terrorists, gangsters and bandits are fiercely charging at the soul of the Nigerian state. Now, the newest epicentre of the pervasive lawlessness is in the...
A landmark conviction of a professor of soil science, who acted as a returning officer in the 2019 general election, is a symptom of the deep-rooted chicanery scarring elections in Nigeria. To the delight of legal purists, the Akwa Ibom State High Co...
DESPITE spirited official attempts to justify it, the recent decision to squander another $1.5 billion to “rehabilitate” the Port Harcourt Refinery is simply preposterous. Against a groundswell of local and international preference for privatisation,...
THE bloodshed that blighted the bye-election held recently in Ekiti East Constituency I in the Ekiti East Local Government Area of the state further underscored the reign of terror that usually overshadows elections in Nigeria. In the latest violence...
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