The failed recall of Senator Dino Melaye from the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria provides an opportunity for lessons to be drawn from the implementation of the recall constitutional provisions. Out of 189,870 signatories to the petition for…
The country is being fleeced to death and the government as usual model we have is not sustainable. Our options do not include the military taking over – we’ve been there and done that and largely, it has failed. Let’s…
Healthcare financing refers to the mobilization of funds for healthcare and mechanisms for paying for healthcare services. Healthcare financing entails allocation of funds to regions, groups and specific types of healthcare. Healthcare is financed through public expenditure, private expenditure or…
For OGP To Put Food on Nigerian Tables By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku — A fundamental question which arose from the breakthrough of the internet was the expediency of giving everybody access. That question came at time in the early 80s…
It is no longer news that Nigeria is in the throes of mindless killings. Every new day is the story of not just one avoidable death, but of numbers of deaths and sometimes in dozens. The brutality and bestiality that…
By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, please, permit me to say it as bluntly and categorically as possible, our dear country, Nigeria, the giant of Africa, is slumbering and snoring deeply. The Federal Government apologists are free to live in delusion…
There is something unrivalled about our collective sense of outrage as Nigerians. It does not exist. I could wage a bet that our gene for outrage has long been isolated and smashed. I’ll explain. Some of the reactions to the recent…
The legislative blitz that rocked the civil society community in 2017 created a host of opportunities and lessons for government, civil society and the public. Non-state actors in the country are pushing regulators and the National Assembly to fix existing…
The #NotTooYoungToRun movement presents a model for citizens’ activism, because for the first time in my lifetime and that of so many Nigerians, I see Nigerians uniting across religious, ethnic and political lines driven by one goal – youth political…
By Dele Momodu – Fellow Nigerians, one of the hottest slogans in our country today is “not too young to rule.” I agree absolutely. When I was approached recently by one of the exponents of this campaign, Mr Dayo…
