Telecommunications: from TOS to 5G, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta
Nigeria has joined the rest of the world in ceremonies to mark the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, which has been celebrated annually on 17 May from 1969 to date. It is to highlight the...
The failure of Political, Security and Economic Sorcery, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta
Nigeria is currently facing a triplet of experts, specialists and pundits in political, security and economic sorcery. They always predict doom for Nigeria. They are simultaneously trading their wares in a country they...
A Country That Is Bleeding, by Eric Teniola
On April 22 this year, the Minister of Defense, Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (71) (rtd) was on the spot. He told State House correspondents that “Nigeria is bleeding”. During the media chat, he informed us all...
ASUU naying IPPIS: Scuttling The Public Sector Financial Reform?
By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta
It is part of the public record in Nigeria that a team was appointed by the Administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo to look into the accounts of the rested Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF),...
FG To Apply For $11bn Loan To Construct Lagos-Calabar Rail Line — Amaechi
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, said, yesterday, that the Federal Government was set to apply for a $11billion loan to construct Lagos to Calabar rail.
Amaechi made the disclosur y during an interactive...
WTO: Africa’s Chance and the Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Candidacy
By Yushau A. Shuaib
With quite a reputation behind her, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appears to mean different things to different people across the spaces she has straddled. This is why I paused for a moment of contemplation when...