Category: Focus

Photo Credit: Premium Times Ameh Occhojila, in this report, examines the argument about separating the offices of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from that of the Minister of Justice, as well as the propriety of the President serving as the minister of Petroleum. The debates over the need to bifurcate the office of […]

“I cannot afford to continue to drive down to work again, I have packed the car,” Saliu Muhammed, a civil servant at Nigeria’s Ministry of Education, laments as he struggles to stretch his legs. He is riding back home from work in the back seat of a saloon car – one of six passengers in […]

By Gift Habib Since 2020, armed forces have shortened democratically elected governments in Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Sudan without severe outcomes. The coup in Niger Republic has raised serious concerns about regional stability and democratic principles in West Africa. Niger brings the number of unconstitutional regimes to six on the continent. Four of the […]

By Gbenga Salau After almost two weeks of a standoff between coup plotters in the Niger Republic, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), both parties are now ready to dialogue. Immediately after the military ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, on July 26, West African leaders, and indeed world leaders, condemned the usurpation of […]

In a democracy, power rests the most on the legislative arm of government and the reason executive heads often keep tabs on the House leadership. The Executive’s meddling in matters of the National Assembly lately produced a rubber stamp ninth Assembly that placed Mr. President above accountability, routinely approved prodigal borrowings, and steadily racked up […]

A radical shift from years of prodigal spending of scarce resources on fuel subsidy needs little or no persuasion in the light of biting economic realities. But beyond Mr. President’s ‘subsidy is gone’ slur, is the imperative of a clear-cut socio-economic plan and programmes to cushion the domino effects of the post-subsidy era. The Tinubu-led […]

Preparations were being concluded for the 2023 Population and Housing Census, when, suddenly, the Federal government announced that it had been postponed. Indefinitely Fidelis Abu, in this analysis, takes a look at the implications of the cancellation. Declaration by the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa Kwarra, that the Commission had spent […]

Despite institutional and individual efforts at reducing the cost of traditional marriage rites in some parts of the South East geo-political zone, especially Imo State, to foster timely marriage among young men and women of marriageable ages in the region, the desired result has remained a mirage; no thanks to greedy parents and kinsmen who […]