Opinion & Interviews

Haruna Gololo is a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a prominent voice in Northern Nigeria and one of the leading mobilisers who worked for President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election. A former…

Nigeria’s digital-asset market has reached a point where regulation is no longer a question of whether it should happen, but of how it should happen. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rules on Digital and Virtual Asset…

A Nigerian comedian once joked, at the start of the year, that he was thinking of a side hustle to survive this economy. He ran through the usual suspects: POS business, drop-shipping, maybe content creation since everybody suddenly…

Nigeria’s latest fake government agencies scandal has moved beyond an embarrassing case of impersonation. These absurd scenarios have exposed something far more disturbing, bringing to the fore the weaknesses in the country’s machinery…

Nigeria’s latest fake government agencies scandal has moved beyond an embarrassing case of impersonation. These absurd scenarios have exposed something far more disturbing, bringing to the fore the weaknesses in the country’s machinery…

Introduction: The Floodwaters as a Catalyst for Legal ScrutinyThe recent flooding that has ravaged parts of Abuja, particularly the high-brow Maitama District, has brought into sharp focus the perennial tension between executive…

The re-election of Governor Ademola Adeleke was as high-profile as elections come in Nigeria with the dominant narrative being that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was hell-bent on taking the state. The political emotions…

A video clip has placed Senator Francis Fadahunsi at the centre of a political firestorm. In it, he appears to use language that many have interpreted as a call to violence against members of the Accord Party. The senator insists the…

During a recent academic study tour of key financial institutions in Malaysia with some of my PhD students from Nasarawa State University, Keffi, I had the opportunity to visit Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the Central Bank of Malaysia,…

The decision, last week, by the Ebonyi State Government to donate its former state secretariat to the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) as the permanent site of the university’s Ebonyi Study Centre is a commendable gesture that…