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The Politics Of Ajimobi’s Death by Reuben Abati
Except something else occurs that grabs the headlines and dominates Nigerian social media, the big news of the past...
Governance Beyond COVID-19: Back to Kwara By Reuben Abati
This year, there was some feeling of nostalgia about May 29 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. When a few persons called...
Okonjo-Iweala, WTO and Africa’s chances By Reuben Abati
The announcement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria’s nominated candidate for the position of the Director General of the...
Adesina’s AfDB trials: a proxy war?
By Olukayode Oyeleye SO MUCH FOR THE African Development Bank (AfDB) headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The multilateral development bank has been...
The Rape Pandemic: #No by Reuben Abati
Since February 27, 2020, when the first index case of COVID-19 was reported in Nigeria, and that satanic, virulent...
Hidden pandemic of domestic violence alongside COVID-19 by Patricia Scotland
By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Waking up to screams, thuds, angry shouting and the sickening sound of someone crashing into a...
Politics and Nigeria’s Electricity Sector by Reuben Abati
While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national...
Grieving Your Losses – Oge Modie
View this email in your browser Oge, Chief of Staff to the former Honourable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and she...
Africa, Eid-al-Fitr and The Virus by Reuben Abati
This year’s eid-al-fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast for 29 or...
Dealing with the deadly concoction of disease and disaster By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General
By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Today in India and Bangladesh, millions of people are hunkered down in shelters, many with masks on...
COVID-19 and Nigerian Banks by Reuben Abati
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the entire world – the future of everything and the world of work, but perhaps the most...
Akinwumi Adesina: Best Man for the AfDB By Reuben Abati
The Board of Governors and the Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina,...
We must leverage the ‘Commonwealth Advantage’ to counter the economic fallout of COVID-19 By Patricia Scotland,Secretary-General
The world is bracing for a massive hit to the global economy in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Experts have...
Abba Kyari: A Death By Reuben Abati
Aso Villa, Nigeria’s seat of presidential power is bereaved. On Friday, April 17, 2020, it recorded its first major...
Now That Abba Kyari is Dead
By Simon Kolawole On January 18, 2020, when I first read of the new coronavirus on the BBC website, my heart missed...
ABBA Kyari: Demonizing A Good Man
Article was first published July 4, 2019. By Idris Mustapha A day after some so-called APC Concerned Stakeholders staged a protest...
