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Agriculture and rural development is one of the cardinal programmes of the President Muhammadu Buhari's government, he sees agriculture as a launching pad for Nigeria's socio-economic advancement. It would be recalled that as at the time he took over...

The senate marshalled by Ahmad Lawan has been convincing in confirming the stereotypes and assumptions about the institution. In July, I wrote about Lawan's obsequiousness and desperation to please President Buhari whom he described as his ''close friend''. I say again,...

"God has been so kind, the only way I can show my gratitude to Him is to use my resources to support those who are underprivileged. This I intend to do for the rest of my life. In a...

Crude oil and refined products worth $41.9bn were stolen from Nigeria in the last 10 years, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Initiative has said. NEITI also urged the government to embrace oil fingerprinting technology, comprehensive metering infrastructure of all facilities...

Embattled Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and his team have been convulsing since the news broke out a fortnight ago that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is set to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a bid to...

Now, my introduction to Professor Tam David-West was on this wise: I was brought up by a very strict, educationist father, who would not allow his seven children travel during holidays, particularly the long vacation at the end of...

In 2017, Issa Shivji delivered the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Issa, who taught at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) for decades, reflected on the idea of revolutionary intellectuals....

The housing challenge in Nigeria has a very long history and the fact that there is wide housing chasm is not in doubt successive governments over the years have adopted different models and strategies to close the wide gap...

A prominent Nigerian Humanist, Patrick Naagbanton died in September following a ghastly motor accident. A humanist funeral service was proposed, but the 'family' rejected it. According to the family spokesperson, Mr J: "We are a Christian family. And we...

I walked into one of the highflying finance houses in the Central Business District of the Federal Capital of Nigeria for a brief business meeting in the morning of Tuesday November 12th 2019. As I walked in, I met a...