Analysis

Today's breaking news all over the world is that a tentative hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas. Hamas will release 50 Israeli hostages in exchange for Israel's release of 150 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. That…

Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State in south-east Nigeria, where she spoke at the 12th annual lecture in memory of the…

Dear Hon minister,First, a disclosure. You may not know me but we have met on two occasions in the house of our mutual respected Oga, first as a minister of State and second as a Governor, but l doubt if you can recognize me now. I’m…

Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has just appointed a new leadership for the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI), an asset holding and management company under the Federal Ministry of Finance, with mandate as the sole manager of…

The idea that the “judiciary is the last hope of the common man” is a banal, flyblown cliché that is habitually huckstered in Nigerian judicial circles and uncritically repeated in the Nigerian commentariat. But that’s mere hype. There has…

In his famous study of leadership, Jim Collins, regarded as one of the most engaging leadership scholars across the globe, states in his book entitled Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, that there are…

Nearly 10 years ago, 276 mostly Christian female students, aged 16 to 18, were kidnapped by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State of Nigeria. Some died; some escaped; but, over 100 of…

The Witness Support Unit of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was created some few years back to help in the administration of justice system in the Federal Capital Territory Judiciary and it has been in operation till…

Healthcare is a fundamental human right, and access to quality healthcare services is a cornerstone of any thriving society. In Nigeria, a country with a population of over 200 million people, the importance of health insurance cannot be…

A long time ago, an Englishman travelling in India came upon a poor man sitting by the roadside eating mud. Intrigued, this traveler asked the man why was he eating mud, and the Indian replied that he had nothing to eat but his mouth was…