By Hezekiah Shobiye "You are very rude. I am not your mate. I have children far older than you. You need to learn how to talk to people".  These were the words that came out of an helpless elderly woman to a female laboratory worker one hot afternoon at a government clinic located in the suburb of Lagos. Apparently, she [...]

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When news emerged that an aircraft with Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai on board had crashed, many assumed he was a passenger on a commercial airline and prepared for the worst: that hundreds of Nigerians would inevitably perish along with him. It didn't take long for the truth to emerge - that it was a private plane - which the [...]

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By Oyedeji Aderemi The difficult (hard) to reach, either due to topography of their geographical location or due to other natural disasters, are a significant portion of the total population of this nation and many of them are totally neglected safe for occasional foray of religious bodies who go with gospel on the wheels of health care delivery to this [...]

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One of the most crucial aspects of the on-going review of the 1999 Constitution is the demand for the formation of new states out of the current 36. As at the time of writing this, the National Assembly Committee on Constitution Review had received 56 memoranda from various groups and movements agitating for new states, each one believing and insisting [...]

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Today, two developments (both of them much trailed) will occur. More precisely, one of these events commences, while the other will be announced. First (and this is not in any specific order) the rate-setting arm (the Monetary Policy Committee -- MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) meets for the last time in a year that has seen it [...]

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Shortly after taking office as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was aghast when he discovered the degree of rot in the banking sector. In the end, the apex bank had to pump about two trillion naira of public funds to rescue the most troubled banks. Eventually, some bank CEOs were forced to resign and indicted. [...]

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Regardless of whether it was given to him as a gift by his congregants or he somehow gave it to himself, it's safe to say that the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor will now be flying in a private jet. He joins Bishop David Oyedepo, said to own more than one, and Pastor Enoch Adeboye who [...]

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Reading through Standard & Poor's recent justification for its decision to raise the economy's foreign- and local-currency sovereign credit ratings, I could not help but wonder whether the policy choices that we made progressing down this path were part of a conscious process of rebuilding our room "for policy manoeuvring" or were the unanticipated result of a collocation of providential [...]

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Maker Faire Africa brought its yearly pan-African innovation fair to Lagos, Nigeria this year. It was three days of exhibitions, workshops, D.I.Y. demonstrations, a public "maker space" and enthusiastic celebration of African ingenuity & creativity. Produced by Maker Faire Africa with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and African Innovation Foundation, and the endorsement of Nigeria's Minister of Finance, the event [...]

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  Fauzia Yusuf Haji, Somalia's soon-to-be First Female Foreign Minister Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan is set to become Somalia's first female Foreign Minister in newly elected Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon's cabinet. Her appointment along with that of Maryam Qasim as Social Development Minister in the Somali ministerial cabinet while "historic" for Somalia, follows the recent trend across most of Africa where an [...]

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