The 'Foolish Man' and his Mega Refinery Complex, by Bayo Onanuga   Some years ago, Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man invited media leaders to a luncheon at then Protea Hotel in Ikeja to mark his 55th birthday. Some of his guests sat around him at the centre table....

Buhari's Huge Parting Debt Profile By Eric Teniola The outgoing President, Muhammadu Buhari GCFR has made sure he is leaving a huge debt profile of eighty trillion naira when he leaves THE VILLA on Monday, May 29. Well, well, well. While he will be celebrating in...

No Funds, No Water, Poor Sanitation; Why Kano’s Cholera Epidemic Remains Perennial By Shahida Salihu When 32 year old Muazu Ibrahim, resident of Kundila area of Kano state scooped water from a nearby public well for his family’s domestic use, little did he reckon that the...

RIPAN and Burden of Tackling Rice Smuggling, by Abdulsalam Mahmud   Nigeria is one country where the smuggling of foreign goods of all kinds is rife. The country's porous land borders are gateways for criminals better known as smugglers to bring in all sorts of contrabands. Are...

Reviewing a Book on Pantami’s Trials and Triumphs by Jaafar Jaafar I was delighted when my big brother, Mallam Yushau Shuaib – a cerebral PR expert, writer and publisher of PRNigeria and Economic Confidential – visited my family recently in London and requested that I...

An Audacious Peep into Nigeria's Cashless Future, by Nduka Chiejina   I was pleasantly surprised when I was contacted to be the Reviewer of a book by Mr Abdulrahman Abdulraheem of the Economic Confidential. It was a pleasant surprise because it remains a special privilege going through...