Opinion

Saudi Arabia BRICS Membership: Balancing Benefits and Risks, By Zekeri Idakwo

Saudi Arabia BRICS Membership: Balancing Benefits and Risks By Zekeri Idakwo In January 2024, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially announced its membership of BRICS, an international economic bloc that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICs intergovernmental organisation was founded in 2009 by...

Saudi Arabia BRICS Membership: Balancing Benefits and Risks, By Zekeri Idakwo

Saudi Arabia BRICS Membership: Balancing Benefits and Risks By Zekeri Idakwo In January 2024, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially announced its membership of BRICS, an international economic bloc that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICs intergovernmental organisation was founded in 2009 by...

Cyber-Attacks: The Banana Peels on Nigeria’s Road to Technological Progress, by Shuaib S. Agaka

Cyber-Attacks: The Banana Peels on Nigeria's Road to Technological Progress, by Shuaib S. Agaka   Nigeria's technological landscape has always been advancing but its vulnerability to cyber attacks is becoming alarming and thus limiting the corresponding optimum productivity. For example, in March 2023, the federal government made...

CBN: Curbing Corruption, Inflation by Killing Ways and Means, by Abdulrahman Abdulraheem

CBN: Curbing Corruption, Inflation by Killing Ways and Means, by Abdulrahman Abdulraheem Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari is believed to be the one who repeatedly made the popular quotable quote: “If we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.” One is not however sure if this is...

CBN: Curbing Corruption, Inflation by Killing Ways and Means, by Abdulrahman Abdulraheem

CBN: Curbing Corruption, Inflation by Killing Ways and Means, by Abdulrahman Abdulraheem Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari is believed to be the one who repeatedly made the popular quotable quote: “If we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.” One is not however sure if this is...

Adeniyi’s Food Security Shuttle at Kano’s Largest Grain Market, by Dahiru Lawal

Adeniyi’s Food Security Shuttle at Kano’s Largest Grain Market, by Dahiru Lawal   I was in Kano for a Media Workshop on Fact-checking when I was told that the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, was expected in the city the following...