Communities captured under the Nigeria Climate Adaptation-Erosion and Watershed Project (NEWMAP-EIB) intervention have expressed growing frustration over the prolonged delay in the commencement of the erosion and flood control... Continue
BY BAMIDELE JOHNSON Rauf Aregbesola, whose wispy frame has always advertised austerity, does not seem to have noticed where political storytelling has gone. His claim that he owned no... Continue
BY TANIMU YAKUBU APPROPRIATION WAS ONLY THE FIRST STEP The public argument has often begun at the wrong point. The National Assembly appropriated funds for the Presidential Economic Advisory... Continue
BEN AHANONU History rarely smiles on the cautious, and it almost never vindicates the timid leaders of complex nations. For decades, Nigeria operated on a model of economic procrastination,... Continue
“As it turned out, unwittingly, we had handed Obasanjo (Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, then President of Nigeria) a tool with which he later dealt with us too. After “stooping... Continue
Did you know that the Okrika people of Rivers State have a centuries-old cultural tradition known as the Iria Ceremony? It is a rite of passage that marks the... Continue