By our Correspondent The Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Tanimu Yakubu, has dismissed allegations that the ₦12.83 trillion Service-Wide Vote in the 2026 budget is a “slush fund” at the disposal of the Presidency, describing such claims as a fundamental misreading of the nation’s fiscal framework.Continue Reading
By – Okoh Aihe The holy book tells us that the poor will always live with us, in our societies. It means you can never wish away the poor even if you are offended by their existence. No magic wand to obliterate the presence of the poor, except justContinue Reading
By Okoh Aihe A couple of years ago, a flight miss up at the airport in Benin City, Edo State, occasioned the unplanned punishing journey from Benin to Abuja by road. The roads were bad, very bad. It was the time of COVID-19, and flights were scarce and veryContinue Reading
“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” – Sun Tzu. The Art of War By – Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. China is in the process of redefining its relations with the rest of the world, with the West in particular. During the first decades ofContinue Reading
By Okoh Aihe Sometimes, truth can be too acerbic to be accommodated by reality. It hits hard on the face to the point of irritation while others can simply just sneer at a point of profundity which, of course, doesn’t look very popular. Listening to the MTN Nigeria boss,Continue Reading
A Renaissance Narrative Against Nihilism, Revolutionary Rupture and the Mockery of a Wounded Country: By Tanimu Yakubu This paper is a deliberate rebuttal to the seductive thesis that Nigeria is merely a theatre of failure, a republic of gullible sheep, frightened animals, hungry lions and a few surviving tortoises.Continue Reading
By Okoh Aihe Nigeria is not at the FIFA World Cup 2026 holding in Mexico, Canada and the United States. This is already well known because failure cannot easily be assuaged with momentary exhilaration or euphoric response to a mundial that has already earned the status of the biggestContinue Reading
A Response to an Unsigned Commentary on Nigeria’s Capital Inflows By Tanimu Yakubu INTRODUCTION The unsigned commentary under review presents itself as a forensic examination of Nigeria’s recent capital-importation figures. Its central thesis is that because a substantial proportion of recent inflows entered Treasury bills and other money-market instrumentsContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu Introduction: In periods of economic adjustment, citizens naturally judge government performance through the prices they encounter in markets, petrol stations and grocery stores. Those experiences are real and deserve serious attention. Yet sound economic analysis requires more than observing nominal price movements. It requires measuring thoseContinue Reading
By Prof Sheriff Ghali Ibrahim The world has seen a change in diplomatic presentation and engagement from Trump’s embarrasing moments with world leaders such as Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Angela Merkel of Germany and King Abdallah of Jordan among others. Trump triggered an unhealthyContinue Reading
