North-west Nigeria has for the past four to five decades suffered from waves of crisis and violence. The trajectory of ...

A wave of protests has spread through Nigeria as citizens call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a ...

For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to “abolish” a police force had succeeded. After ...

Nigeria’s global image is taking an international beating. From its elevation to the top rank of the world’s poverty capital, ...

“…economic security is national security” – President-Elect Joseph Biden                       “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” – Paul ...

On June 18 this year, President Muhammadu Buhari reprimanded his military service chiefs over their failure to curb the worsening ...

On Saturday, November 28, about 43 farmers who had gone to their farms during the current harvest season were attacked ...

Undoubtedly in order to promote the video clip of an ethnic revanchist calling on Igbo to leave Yoruba land, this ...

Cyberspace is constantly flooded with information generated by individuals, corporate organisations, state institutions and businesses on a daily basis. This ...

On October 6, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted the sanctions on Mali, to the relief of ...

“Don’t go out.” “Why are you always going out?” “Please be safe”. These are all phrases that young Nigerians have ...

What we know about the 21st century revolt is that the youth are its key actors, it starts on social ...

The battle-cry to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)’ reign of terror came to a near-halt last weekend when the ...

It has been a tumultuous week of protests. It will be helpful to take a backward glance as we navigate ...

The increase in the pump price of fuel, in 2020, a fall-out of the deregulation of the downstream sector, did ...

On the matter of the health of the Nigerian economy and the country’s medium-term outlook, I’ve taken part in long, ...

With the latest round of protest to #EndSARS, Nigerians need to know the origin of the rogue unit that has ...

As I made to angrily start the car, he howled, “Move an inch from there! If I no waste you ...

The hashtag #EndSARS has been trending on social media for some time now, triggered by the alleged killing of a ...

As life gradually returns to normal after a tumultuous week of looting, arson, wanton destruction and death that followed the ...

“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the ...

Crimes and criminality have shifted from the physical environment to cyberspace, where criminals operate now without any physical restriction, and ...

It is no longer news that in Nigeria today, several internet assisted crimes known as cybercrimes are committed daily in ...

’ve mentioned before – in fact, just last week – an anecdote about one of my bosses asking us to ...

In the wake of an insurgency that devastated Nigeria’s petroleum industry and sent the economy into a tailspin, the Nigerian government granted unconditional ...

The decision of the federal government to spend $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account on security has divided Nigerians ...

Since last month the State government and security agencies have been working to contain an upsurge in violence and needless ...

The renewed interest in the crisis that continues to rock Southern Kaduna would be helpful if it produces a genuine ...

A friend of mine sent me the link to be part of the webinar organised by the Whiteink Institute for ...

The controversy over the withdrawal of the invitation of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the executive governor of Kaduna state, as one ...

I listened to Senator Emmanuel Yisa Oker-Jev’s interview on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) 7am news of 13 ...

We – and I dare say most Nigerians – would wish for Nigeria to work for most Nigerians primarily and ...

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) should be scrapped without any delay. This is because the ONSA has ...

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? The typical response of Nigerian governments over the years to separatist agitations is to brand ...

In April 2, as Nigeria’s megacity Lagos and its capital Abuja locked down to control the spread of the coronavirus, ...

he kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls from Dapchi last month is the latest event to cast doubt on the Nigerian government’s ...

Far more than at any time since the end of Nigeria’s protracted civil war in 1970, the country now faces ...

The resurgence of killings in Kauru, Zango-Kataf, Kaura, Kajuru and Jema’a local governments in Kaduna State is not altogether surprising. ...

This week, I was invited to join a large delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on a fact-finding mission ...

On Tuesday, Governor Nasir El-Rufai addressed a high-powered meeting on the violent crisis in parts of southern Kaduna. He expressed ...

I spent most of last Monday pondering about the declaration by Army Chief, Tukur Buratai, that the nation’s security situation ...

In the midst of …clear and present dangers nationwide, Nigerians whilst ignoring their common perils, continued to produce and reproduce ...

Nigeria has surfed through numerous hurdles as far as security is concerned. Ranging from the Niger Delta Insurrection and militancy, ...

I was in Senegal last week for a conference and for the first time in a long while, it felt ...

This week, I was in Niamey, Niger Republic for a scholarly conference on the state of knowledge on security and ...

Last week, I participated in a conference on the theme of combatting insecurity and violent extremism in the Sahel. It ...

This is not the best of times to be identified as a Nigerian, especially if you are a Nigerian in ...

Code named “Operation Fox Hunt 2”, the Dubai Police swooped in on them. In the raid, 47 phones, 15 USB ...

Deceit. This six letter word aptly describes the biggest hindrance to the battle against insecurity in Nigeria. Until the Buhari ...

The authorities may do well by enforcing the cybercrime act In what is fast becoming a routine affair, the American ...

President Buhari must do more to secure the country Despite the repeated claims by the military that Boko Haram has ...

Illegal miners pose serious threat to our economy and national security That the latest audit report of the Nigeria Extractive ...

The authorities could do more to make our waters safe A recent statement by the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime ...

Between 2010 and 2015, Nigeria lost 6,500 citizens and 62,000 others were displaced from their homelands in 850 recorded violent ...

Six years ago, a cashless policy became fully operational in Nigeria. The aim was to encourage electronic transactions with a view to ...

Shila boys are youths of 15 to 25 years who engage in street larceny and have been terrorising the residents ...

“Fear a tumult which will affect those who caused it as well as the innocent ones…” – Quran Chapter Anfal 8:25 ...

When Major-General Bashir Magashi (rtd.) was announced as a ministerial nominee, I reached out to the former Commissioner for Information ...

The signal we receive daily in counterterrorism campaigns, especially from Borno State is disturbing and alarming. The alleged conspiracy and ...

It was supposed to be a tactful foresight, the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari in appointing people from Borno State ...

Introduction Since the return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria has been grappling with diverse security challenges, chief among them are ...

Mr. President should realize that the Fulani herdsmen are worse than the Boko Haram and the Niger Delta militants. This ...

Evidence shows growing concern over increasing sexual violence against girls nationwide in the COVID-19 lockdown. Cases of rape reported to ...

It is easy to blame the Shiites because we do not subscribe to their ideology or the struggle for the ...

COVID-19 records deaths approaching 480,000, infections 9,200,000, with around 21,000 recognised cases in Nigeria. Stay safe!! The astronomical increase in Covid-19 ...

Whenever I cross the River Kaduna bridge to visit Teslim, I am reminded of the tranquility of my childhood growing ...

The security situation in the country today is frightening. Insurgents, militants, criminals and bandits have caught up the reality of ...

Banditry is on the increase in northern Nigeria. This is a region with many security problems, chief among them Boko Haram’s ...

Granted that the intervention by security forces in a crisis may occasionally be compelling to bring about stability and calmness, ...

Security experts have identified good governance as a panacea to the recurring problems of insecurity in the country. The experts, ...

Nigeria’s forests cover about 96,043 square km– that’s about 10% of the country’s landmass. But the presence of authorities in these sanctuaries ...

Northern Nigeria has become a thieving and killing field for cattle rustlers who maraud the region’s ungoverned forests, stealing cattle ...

Kidnapping is an ancient crime dating back to 17th century Britain when infant children of rich families would be “napped” (caught ...

The Nigeria Police and Army cannot provide jobs. These should be the main focus of governors. So all the support ...

Muhammadu Buhari has just won his second term as President of Nigeria in what was a fiercely fought campaign chiefly ...

The core reason for the substantive demands for restructuring Nigeria is linked, paradoxically, to widespread concerns about how far the ...

On June 30, 2017, my column was entitled, “No Need to Fight: Restructuring is the basis of Happiness.” In it ...

Memorandum by Friends of Democracy to the National Assembly Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution 1.0 Introduction Since ...

The Nigeria Bar Association got a new executive over a month now. Given the pervasiveness of corruption in Nigeria and ...

Nigeria faces the triple challenge of providing reliable power supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and keeping energy affordable to consumers. ...

In the short-term, we are already aware of the immediate changes that COVID-19 has brought to our lives. Air travel ...

I listened to Senator Emmanuel Yisa Oker-Jev’s interview on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) 7am news of 13 ...

PUTTING FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY INTO PERSPECTIVE International efforts are intensifying to end hunger and address the emerging challenge of ...

Nigeria’s recent announcement confirming that it is closing its borders to prevent movement of all goods has been met with harsh criticism from ...

We – and I dare say most Nigerians – would wish for Nigeria to work for most Nigerians primarily and ...

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) should be scrapped without any delay. This is because the ONSA has ...

key priority for Africa over the next decade should be to address a deteriorating food security situation that is compounded ...

“…I don’t mind Nigeria losing a whole school year than exposing our children to danger.” Those were the words of ...

Now is the best time for people in power to hold a national dialogue to drive the focus of Nigeria’s ...

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot ...

Coming up, we have heard from several local political discourses that the only way Nigeria’s problems can be solved is ...

As we enjoy the Niger Delta special corruption opera playing on the nation’s prime time shows, we should reflect deeper ...

The flood of corruption stories in Nigeria in the last week has worried many patriotic Nigerians. It was like a ...

Government should adopt a better strategy for the anti-graft war If there is any lesson from the current suspension and ...

Nigerians have always had cause to condemn the activities of their elected representatives, particularly those at the National Assembly (NASS). ...

There is currently an upsurge of passionate demands for “restructuring”, “true federalism” and “actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra”. ...

Give it to him, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, knows how to hit the nail on the head ...

All over the world, the reach of digital technology is growing at an extraordinary rate, even in developing countries. Young people are ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Education remains one of the fundamental factors of development as it has the potential of enriching people’s understanding ...

One of the most difficult truths I have reconciled myself with as a Nigerian is that: it is extremely difficult ...

The quality of education in any country is one of the major keys to national development. The decline in the ...

About two months ago, the Nigerian government announced the closure of the country’s land borders to all goods. According to the country’s ...

Nigeria’s education system is based on the (1)-6-3-3-4 formula: one year pre-primary education, six years primary, three years junior secondary, ...

Energy remains one of the main constraints for economic growth in Nigeria. The lack of reliable access and irregular power ...

Why are Nigeria’s universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it had to do with just one word: ...

There is a saying in Nigeria, “Little by little the bird builds its nest”. In just the same way, Nigeria ...

Urbanisation remains a big challenge for city managers in low- and middle-income countries. This includes Nigeria, where the proportion of ...

22,000 teachers in Kaduna were sacked as a result of their incompetence “they do not have the requisite skills and ...

By Olumzy “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” The importance of education to a nation can not be ...

Most people believe Nigeria is in recession because the whole world seems to be plunging in to recession due to ...

Agriculture has undergone rapid transformation, from the era of the industrial revolution, when farmers depended on manual labour to the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown measures have had a huge negative impact on producers and consumers. Food production has ...

Competition laws protect consumers and create confidence in an economy. It’s a signal to investors and entrepreneurs that a market is fair ...

2020 bushwhacked just about everyone. And across the world, responses to the challenges presented by the year have been as ...

With a population and gross domestic product projected at 399 million people and $3.3 trillion by 2050, the gulf between the ...

There is no shortage of technological innovations designed to boost animal agriculture in Africa. These range from GPS tracking systems which identify ...

The expectation of closing the 16.8% shortfall in the Nigeria financial inclusion target is threatened, as the recent Enhancing Financial ...

THE International Monetary Fund’s recent warning to the Federal Government to avoid undue aggression in tax collection amid what is ...

As Nigeria celebrated its 59th  independence , a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo ...

Some 230 years ago, Thomas Jefferson argued that “the two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let ...

In my 2005 National Democracy Day Lecture, I strongly argued that “for sustainable democracy, fundamental changes are required in the ...

Being the text of the prepared speech by Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, former Governor of the Central Bank of ...

Protocol It is my pleasure to address you at this second edition ofthe “National Seminar on Cash Handling, Automation andManagement” ...

The unfolding US-China power rivalry bears a striking resemblance to the tensions between the US and the Soviet bloc during the Cold ...

With the roll out of the Economic Sustainability Plan of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Non-Interest Finance Market has ...

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a ...

INTRODUCTION The present structure of Nigeria’s federal system of government is dysfunctional, hardly sustainable and will continue to constrain the ...

Inconvenient Truths Nation-building is hard, but it need not be as difficult as we make it in Nigeria. Nation-building is ...

“We cannot afford to be poor” is a position Marzuq Abubakar and I reached around December 2017. The reason for adopting this ...

Nobel Laureate professor Wole Soyinka recently called for an emergency national conference on the Nigerian economy. This suggests that the economy is not only ...

Lengthy power cuts are pretty much a daily experience in Nigeria. The country’s epileptic power supply has been identified by ...

Nigeria spends an average of US $22 billion (₦7.92trn) each year on food imports. Its major food imports include wheat, sugar ...

Ever since Nigeria started harvesting its petroleum endowment, its economy’s umbilical cord has avoidably been firmly tied to the volatility ...

Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative ...

Energy remains one of the main constraints for economic growth in Nigeria. The lack of reliable access and irregular power ...

One of the main reasons newly-elected Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari had been widely expected to lose his bid for a ...

The World Food Programme has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause one of the worst food crises since World War II. ...

About 90 million people – roughly half Nigeria’s population – live in extreme poverty, according to estimates from the World Data ...

The road from a pig farm in Iowa to the offices of economic development in Abuja is a long one. ...

Bankers in Africa and China have agreed that digitisation of the banking sector will give it resilience against the current ...

The curve of the coronavirus pandemic started to bend upwards in Africa only recently – just as the curve in the 10 ...

My African brothers and sisters, Today we commemorate the establishment, on May 25, 1963, here in Addis Ababa, of the ...

The Economic Advisory Council should keep in mind that Nigeria is one of five countries – alongside Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia ...

SimonKolawolelive By Simon-Kolawole, Email: simon.kolawole@thisdaylive.com, sms: 0805 500 1961 Your Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of the Federal Republic of ...

Now that your business is set up, your next goal is to ensure that word about your business gets to ...

There is hardly any serious entrepreneur or business owner who has not spared a thought for the health of their brand ...