The plan for Procter & Gamble (P&G), an American global consumer products company, to leave the nation has been met with grief by the Presidency. The corporation bemoaned how tough it is getting to conduct business in Nigeria as a result of problems with the macroeconomic climate and the Dollar Naira exchange rates. Hundreds of…
ISSUES There is an increasing consensus that the American form of liberal democracy that we currently practice in the country is not quite working for us. As far back as 2011, then President Goodluck Jonathan proposed a single tenure of six years for presidents and governors in the country, beginning from 2015. Suspicions over his…
Labour Party candidate in the last presidential election Peter Obi has proposed a five year single presidential tenure for each of the six geopolitical zones in the country Obi said this during a press conference in Abuja, his first since the Supreme Court affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s electoral victory. His proposal comes in response to…
On Friday, November 3, the French government made open its decision to return $150 million of the late General Sani Abacha loot. Nigerians are bewildered that following the death of Abacha, who was Nigeria’s military leader from 1993 to 1998, the country has recovered and is still recovering hundreds of millions of dollars heaped abroad….
Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Kingsley Moghalu, said he would not allow any government official to drive an imported vehicle if he were to be the president of Nigeria. Prof Moghalu said, Nigerian politicians, instead of driving foreign-made vehicles, should invest in and patronise local alternatives. “He said this in…
