Features/Analysis Archives

EXPLAINER: President Tinubu’s drive for Foreign Direct Investments by Temitope Ajayi

In his independence anniversary broadcast on October 1st, President Bola Tinubu enumerated his administration’s efforts to drive foreign direct investments into the country. He noted that within the first 16…

Joe Ajaero, DSS and Fuel Price Hike By Tunde Rahman

By the time the Department of State Services released Nigeria Labour Congress President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, last Monday evening September 9, he had become contrite, remorseful and perhaps ashamed of…

Banire’s wrong assumptions, NNPC and challenges in the oil sector by Olufemi Soneye

In the face of the challenges in the oil sector, particularly the current tightness in the supply of petrol, it has become fashionable to blame the national oil company, the…

NNPC, Oando and Atiku Abubakar’s attacks by Temitope Ajayi

By his advanced age and eminent status as a former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is by no means qualified to be an elder statesman. Statesmen are highly…

EFCC’s bid for whistle-blowers’ protection by Tunde Rahman

Delivering a paper on the “Impact of the whistleblowing policy on public sector accountability and transparency” on Thursday July 11, 2024 at the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) conference in Abuja,…

Tinubu’s reforms will save Nigerians, not policy flipflops by Uche Nnadozie

If you are reading the Financial Times and the article is titled “Shock Therapy Alone Will Not Cure Nigeria’s Economic Ills,” you might think the publication is a disgruntled political…

Protest: Head or tail, we may all end up losers by Tunde Rahman

All hell has been let loose, and the centre can no longer hold in Kenya over the tax revolt that has been ravaging that East-African country since June. In the…

Why Governors should align with Tinubu on LG autonomy by Tunde Rahman

Governors have been acting tongue-in-cheek in their reactions to last Thursday’s verdict of the Supreme Court, which stripped them of their suffocating grip over the money meant for local governments…

President Tinubu and Nigeria’s rising global profile

By Fredrick Nwabufo Nigeria’s rising global profile is not the conjuring of luck or the divination and contrivance of some dissociated variables. It is the result of purposeful, diligent, and…

Bridging Investment Gap: The Tinubu’s Model

By Emeka Nwankpa Notwithstanding that one year is too short to assess a four-year tenure, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shocked bookmakers with the huge and remarkable ground his solutionist…