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On May 5, a Nigerian high court ordered the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a prominent local human rights organization, to pay 100 million naira (about US$72,000) in damages to two Department of State Services officials.
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Every time the lights go out in your home, your first instinct is probably to blame EEDC, IKEDC, or whichever distribution company serves your area.
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The first problem with the one-million claim is arithmetic. Kwara Central has four LGAs: Asa, Ilorin East, Ilorin South, and Ilorin West.
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By Alex Gendis In my years leading industrial operations across West Africa, I have witnessed a significant shift in the African marketplace. There was a time when a brand’s success was measured solely by its ability to provide a product that was “good enough” and “cheap enough.” But if you walk through a retail aisle in Lagos, […]
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By Oto’ Drama Last week in Abuja, amidst the sterile air of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) meeting, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, attempted a daring feat of theological escape. With the practiced poise of a man who has spent twenty years mastering the art of the “moderate” sound bite, he declared: “Don’t think […]
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By Victor-Bandele Dada Japan represents one of the most coherent and instructive models of sustainable development in the contemporary world. It combines industrial dominance, environmental stewardship, and institutional discipline within a unified governance structure. Notably, Japan is home to Toyota Motor Corporation, the world’s number one automaker by production and sales, symbolizing the country’s ability to align […]
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By Babafemi Ojudu There are moments in the life of a people when difficult questions must be asked—not for provocation, but for the preservation of conscience. This is one of such moments. Across Nigeria today, there is a growing perception—fair or unfair—that the Yoruba, once regarded as a stabilizing moral force in the national equation, are retreating […]
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By Moshood Oshunfurewa There is a particular cruelty reserved for Nigerians who still dare to dream. Nigerians watch men in tailored agbadas step before cameras, clutch their chests with the fervour of converts, and promise us light. Not the blinding glare of a camera flash, mind you, but the kind that keeps a cold chain vaccine viable […]
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By Echefuna’ ONYEBEADI The issue of zoning/rotation of political offices between North and South of Nigeria has become a recurrent decimal, particularly, in this political dispensation since 1999. First, let’s be clear that Nigeria did not gain independence from colonial rule in 1999, when the current political dispensation commenced under a very strange military contraption of an […]
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For someone running for the presidency a record seventh time and who has switched political parties at least four times since 1999, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s unbridled rebuke of fellow contestants…
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