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Today's Scoops
Nigerian Army alleges plot by Boko Haram sympathisers to divide it – the bottomline
May 5, 2019The Nigerian Army has alleged that some unidentified Nigerians and foreign parties were working together to divide the military and set it against itself and the people. It warned that if unchecked, the activities of these persons could exacerbate the...
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Takeaways
These are the 3 biggest ideas shared on #ThePlatform last week
May 5, 2019May 1st 2019, The Platform – a bi-annual national social political conversation – was home to some of Nigeria’s big league speakers and achievers who attempted to share the challenge and way forward to some of the nation’s biggest problems....
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Scoopinions
Dear IGP Adamu, begging bandits is not a security strategy
May 4, 2019Dear Police Inspector-General Mohammed Adamu, You cannot tackle the atrophic security threat assailing the country by pandering to the whims of the antagonists. Of course, being a sterling security professional, you know this; hence my befuddlement by your statement at...
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BOOs
Setting a new agenda for Buhari’s next government
May 4, 2019Fellow Nigerians, by the 29th of May, two thousand and nineteen years after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, the present government of President Muhammadu Buhari would have fully completed and exhausted four incredible years in power. It would...
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Scoopinions
Nigeria must end its relationship with parasitic ex-leaders like Yari
May 4, 2019In a matter of weeks, AbdulAziz Yari will no longer be the number one citizen of Zamfara state. But he has little or nothing to bemoan. Beyond the fact that, like most Nigerian governors after serving two terms, he is...
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Scoopinions
Our misplaced priority on fuel subsidy will kill us
May 3, 2019The International Monetary Fund at its latest spring meetings presented its World Economic Outlook that included country-specific-evaluations and recommendations. In the case of Nigeria, the IMF identified the 1.9 percent GDP growth, decelerating price increase and the gradual convergence in...
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Today's Scoops
Atiku’s university, SMB to disburse GIZ-funded aid to returnee IDP farmers
May 3, 2019The American University of Nigeria (AUN) and a Yola-based bank, Standard Microfinance Bank, have signed an agreement to disburse cash and agricultural inputs to vulnerable returnee farmers in Maiha, Mubi North, and Mubi South Local Government Areas of Adamawa State....
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NASS
House of Reps summons Buhari for the third time
May 3, 2019The House of Representatives has again summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians on measures being taken to curb the rising cases of banditry, armed robbery, kidnapping and killings across the country. The House had on April 11, made the...
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Today's Scoops
Buhari’s district head kidnapped in Daura
May 2, 2019Alhaji Musa Umar, the district head of Daura (President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown) has been kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen. Umar’s abduction is only the recent case in a series of kidnaps that have plagued the country in recent times with...
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Today's Scoops
FG: Zainab Aliyu was released by Saudi Arabia because of Buhari’s goodwill
May 2, 2019The Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the release of a Nigerian national, Zainab Aliyu by Saudi authorities is a sign of the goodwill Nigeria is enjoying under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. Backstory: Mustapha Sulaiman, Permanent...
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NASS
Key things to know about NASS-approved 2019 budget, including the extra N90 billion
May 2, 2019Both the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly have reached a consensus on the 2019 national budget, jointly passing a budget of N8.916 trillion, and would now transmit the document back to the president for assent. Backstory: The...
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Today's Scoops
Oyo State Governor-elect is proposing to negotiate the minimum wage – why it matters
May 2, 2019Oyo State Governor-elect, Seyi Makinde believes it is wrong for the federal government to determine minimum wage for the states. According to Makinde, states, based on the principle of federalism, should determine the viable minimum wage for its civil servants. ...
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Activism
Why Naira Marley, Olamide, Davido will get away with endorsing yahoo fraud
April 30, 2019“If u know about slavery u go know say yahoo no b crime,” Naira Marley, a Nigerian artist said just over a week ago, basically justifying internet fraud in 2019 as a sort of response to slavery. Naira Marley was...
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Today's Scoops
Boko Haram terrorists earn more than Nigerian soldiers – why it matters
April 30, 2019A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, has revealed that Nigerian soldiers receive N1000 as daily allowance, while Boko Haram terrorists receive $3000. Mohammed, who heads Humanitarian Assistance and Rehabilitation at PCNI,...
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Scoopinions
Bashir El-Rufai and why we need a single Nigeria Civil War story
April 30, 2019Just over a week ago, Bashir El-Rufai, the son of Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai, wrote this in a now deleted tweet: “A segment of a nation undertook a coup and killed other regional leaders with so much disrespect & expected...
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Today's Scoops
Gov. Dickson withholds assent to controversial “life pension” bill for Bayelsa lawmakers
April 30, 2019Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has withheld assent to the divisive “lifetime pension” proposed for former members of the state’s legislature, and recently passed by the State House of Assembly. Backstory: The state assembly had proposed and passed a bill...
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Politics
Kogi Gov. Bello fires back at ‘seasonal lizards’ in his own party
April 30, 2019Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has responded to a letter forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s leadership, by an All Progressives Congress Stakeholders’ Forum in his state, questioning his credibility going into the November 2, 2019 governorship election....
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Today's Scoops
Another recession is possible from next year – Gov. Yari warns
April 30, 2019The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has advised returning and newly elected state governors to prepare for tough times in governing their states. Particularly, the NGF warned that there might yet be another cycle of recession from mid-2020 to the third...
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Activism
The all-male leaders’ club is holding us back. Now is the time for a women’s justice agenda
April 30, 2019On April 28, 2019, Matt Obono, convener of the TAP Initiative reported that 70 women were illegally arrested and brought to the Utako police station in Abuja. Their offense: partying at a nightclub. But it did not stop there. Obono reported...
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Doing Business
Dangote has a private sector proposal to fix Nigeria’s public universities – why it matters
April 28, 2019Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, wants the private sector to do more to improve public universities in Nigeria. He advocated private sector collaboration with government to address the issues affecting the universities, mostly lack of investments in the system due...
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BOOs
How do Nigerian gay and bisexual men cope? This is what they told us
May 21, 2019Many Africans who are not gay or bisexual – sexually attracted only to people of the same sex or of both sexes – claim that being gay or bisexual is...
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Politics
Tambuwal won with the slimmest margin. Now he says they want to stop his inauguration
May 20, 2019Of all the governors-elect in the country, the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, was the one who won his election in March with the slimmest margin. Just 341 votes was...
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Scoopinions
The Shameless Republic of Nigeria
May 23, 2019Public holidays do not exist for self-employed people, so on Easter Monday, I found myself buying a takeaway lunch at a small restaurant near my office in Ogba. The sales...
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Today's Scoops
FG urges Obasanjo to retract Boko Haram statement and apologize
May 21, 2019In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed urged former president Olusegun Obasanjo to retract statements he made about Boko Haram...
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Today's Scoops
Gov. Bello walks out Kogi chief judge from Government House
May 21, 2019The faceoff between the Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello, and the state’s chief judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, continued on Tuesday as the judge was walked out of a function at the...
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BOOs
As humiliated Amaechi tries to play God on Igbo presidency
May 20, 2019Rotimi Amaechi’s recent declaration that the Igbo should forget about the presidency in 2023 “for refusing to support the APC…” is both self-adulating and hypocritical, and must be treated as...
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Today's Scoops
Gov. Wike sacks traditional ruler
May 21, 2019Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, has sacked the traditional ruler of Baabe Kingdom, His Royal Highness, Monday Noryaa, for his alleged involvement in cultism. In a statement by his Special Assistant...
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Today's Scoops
Wike accuses Army of involvement in oil bunkering
May 20, 2019Governor Nyesom Wike has accused the Nigerian Army of running an illegal oil bunkering racket in Rivers State. Backstory: Wike particularly mentioned Jamil Sarham, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) the...
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Doing Business
CBN to stop Nigerian banks from buying government bonds – why it matters
May 22, 2019The Central Bank of Nigeria will soon prevent Nigerian banks from investing in government bonds in a bid to boost lending to consumers and businesses. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele made this...
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BOOs
The problem Obasanjo called “Fulanisation” is real
May 23, 2019Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said several useful things in his keynote address at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, in Oleh, Delta State, over the weekend, but only...
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Events
7 takeaways from @AbujaGSC dialogue on health financing in Nigeria
November 6, 2017The issue of health financing, funding and the rising cost of health care in Nigeria were on the front burner last Friday at the Dialogue Series of the Global Shapers...
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Politics
Buhari’s assistant sulks and melts down on national TV (Watch)
November 1, 2017Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, was a guest on Monday’s edition of AIT’s breakfast program, Kaakaki. Interviewed by the duo of Utibe Umoren and...
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Slider
“Boko Haram is broke” – UN
February 8, 2017The Boko Haram sect is currently plagued by financial difficulties, Jeffrey Feltman, UN under-secretary-general for political affairs, has said. Feltman said this on Tuesday, while briefing the security council on...