Civil Society Regulatory Environment: A Review of the Buhari Administration & Sub-national Leaders
Civil Society Regulatory Environment: A Review of the Buhari Administration & Sub-national Leaders By: Oluseyi B. Oyebisi The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got – civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari Administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive actions. This article focuses on the regulatory environment for civil society organisations. […]
National Assembly and The Buhari Years
National Assembly and The Buhari Years By: Oke Epia The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got – civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari Administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive actions. This article focuses on the National Assembly. An assessment of the Buhari presidency and the National […]
Harira Jubril and Her Four Daughters: A Requiem
Harira Jubril and Her Four Daughters: A Requiem Today makes it exactly one year, Harira Jubril, a pregnant lady, and her 4 daughters were callously shot dead by yet-to-be-identified gunmen inside Awka, Anambra State as they walked along the road. It was a Sunday, a day traditionally reserved for rest. Their horrendous and […]
Expanding Debt Without Accountability
Expanding Debt Without Accountability: ‘Ways and Means’ By: Oluseun Onigbinde The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got – civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari Administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive steps. This article focuses on Nigeria’s debt burden. Nigeria’s upper legislature has approved N23.7 trillion to be […]
Environmental Protection of the Nigerian Space
Environmental Protection of the Nigerian Space – from Policies to Implementation: A Promise Half Fulfilled! By: Dr. Chima Williams The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got – civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari Administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive steps. This article focuses on the environment. The outgoing […]
PMB, Keep Your Word
By: Tehilah E. Eisenstadt Since late 2014, nine years ago, I’ve worn a necklace that simply has “182” on it. Lots of people ask about it. My response to their question about the necklace is usually something like this: “It’s a sad story, do you want to hear it?” In nine years, no […]
The Tsunami of Change
By Ken Uguke Change, as the saying goes, is the only constant. In eighteen (18) months, I will reach the age which goes with the popular saying that a fool at 40 is a fool for life. As a teen, I thought 40 was a million miles away, but here’s the reality: my […]
When Impunity Is Expected & Endorsed
By ‘Yemi Adamolekun Competence, character, capacity (the 3Cs) or competence, character, capacity, courage and compassion (the 5Cs) started gaining currency in 2019. By 2022, even incumbent politicians were using the words to describe themselves. Hmm …. However, it would seem that we want those things on one hand; but on the other hand, […]
2023 Elections: It is time for Honest Conversations
By Oluseun Onigbinde The 2023 presidential elections have not come and gone because their memory still lingers from INEC’s indefensible behavior that crushed trust in the electoral system. If there are lessons to pick in this whole quagmire, it must be that things can get worse irrespective of what technology, innovation, or level […]
Lagos By Dike Chukwumerije
Lagos: By Dike Chukwumerije With every election (where people are really interested in coming out to vote), the ruling party in Lagos is having to use methods that are growing more and more brutal and crude to win. That in itself is a sign of a party in decline. Still, the most dangerous […]