Damilola OJETUNDE

HAD the  Nigerian Financial Intelligent Unit (NFIU) been granted autonomy to operate for the past 10 years, with its new guidelines on financial autonomy to local governments, it would have helped the 774 local governments across the…
Read More...

THE 2019 general elections might have come and gone, though, leaving moments that tested the integrity of Nigerian democracy. Nine states governors have served two terms as the chief executive officer of their respective states. The…
Read More...

For the first time in history since the return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria recorded the lowest rate of voter turnout of 34.75 per cent at the last presidential election held on February 23. The rate of voter turnout is calculated as the…
Read More...

The announcement of results of the 2019 governorship election held in 29 states of the federation on Saturday, March 9, is still in progress.  While election results in six states, namely, Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau, and Sokoto…
Read More...

What? Fake news has infected Africa’s biggest election via WhatsApp Why now? It turns out there’s an antidote, and the election is tomorrow What do the following have in common? Rumours of a secret meeting between the candidate and…
Read More...

THE Code of Conduct of Bureau (CCB) has refused to release copies of asset declaration forms of all cabinet members of the Buhari-led administration, thereby, flouting the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 2011. The ICIR, on January 16,…
Read More...

IF you have been on the internet in the last couple of weeks, you would have come across the #10YearChallenge on social media. It's a challenge which involves people posting up then-and-now pictures of themselves from 2009 and 2019, to…
Read More...

EIGHTEEN years after member-state of the African Union agreed to allocate 15 per cent of their annual budget to the health sector, Nigeria has continued to be a serial defaulter of this agreement. A healthy population is truly the best…
Read More...

THE number one and two citizens of the federal republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will both spend N2,801,981,868 on cars, travel and feeding cost, details of the proposed 2019 budget…
Read More...

THE unemployment rate in Nigeria has increased from 18.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 to 23.1 per cent in the quarter of 2018, an increase of 4.3 per cent. According to the "Labor Force Statistics - Volume I: Unemployment and…
Read More...