OPINION

  By Sunday Ojo “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you from doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically” - Stephen Hawking Down Syndrome, succinctly put, is a chromosome...

By Ola Awoniyi When Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 1984 with a B.Sc. degree in Geography, taking an active role in partisan politics was not on his mind. The young man did not consider himself cut for the "dirty game." Rather, his focus was firmly...

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM As inflationary pressures ease and economic growth slowly recovers, it remains a matter of ‘when, not if’ the Central Bank of Nigeria will raise interest rates in 2022. Other central banks have already joined the global tightening train in 2021 including South...

  By Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) & Collins Okeke (LLM) The main objective the Space Law and Arbitration Association (SLAA) seeks to achieve is to help the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) protect the integrity of Nigerian space, as it has been established that the majority of satellites...

  By Garba Shehu The removal of Nigeria from the religious violators watchlist by the Biden-led US administration in the run-up to the visit of Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State is a triumph of diplomacy and sagacity over hate-driven foreign policy, itself founded on false propaganda. President Muhammadu Buhari...

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM One of the major themes dominating global markets is the recent surge in oil prices. Brent and WTI crude have appreciated to multiyear highs this month thanks to the combination of tightening supplies and rising demand. The explosive appreciation in oil is...

  By Mon-Charles Egbo At last, the tortuous journey to strengthen Nigeria’s oil and gas sector came to an end with President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB thus transforming it to Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. But quite instructively, the spate of reactions that trail this development...

One of Nigeria’s leading minds in accounting, Christian Ekeigwe, has harped on the need for accountants to exercise sufficient self-control as they play their gatekeeping roles in society. Ekeigwe, a fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA, Massachusetts), traced audit failures to...

  By Mon-Charles Egbo In a democracy, there is nothing that can be more reassuring than the confidence that one’s vote counts or that the genuine wishes of the people are respected in every electoral contest. Even the unscrupulous critics agree that electronic transmission of election results is not only...

By Tim Akano One Africa Initiatives (OAI), a leading not-for-profit organisation that focuses on the development of the African continent and the sixth region, including its people globally, expresses deep shock at the recent torrents of racist comments that followed the loss of England to Italy at the Euro 2020...