While working on an investment research project a couple of years ago during my graduate studies at the University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business, I built and ran a forecast model that showed how dangerously close Nigeria was to ballooning the trade deficit. Other financial benchmarks showed the country was on life support. […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says some aspirants for the presidency in 2023 should have been jailed if the country’s anti-graft were more diligent in their duties. Obasanjo said those who have no integrity in “small things” cannot have integrity in “big things” like the presidency. Speaking on Saturday in Ogun state during a symposium to
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The action or inaction by persons or groups of persons to sit out the 2023 is complicity in the decadence of democracy in Nigeria. This point was highlighted by the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Professor Attahiru Jega. “We can’t all sit on sidelines and allow APC to destroy our nation”
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The opportunity to strengthen the failing democratic process in the country was dashed after President Muhammadu Buhari withheld assent of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and refused to sign it into law. Last Friday, The Guardian had extensively reported on concerns as hope dimmed on the electoral bill seeing the light of the day as
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Governance and political leadership in Nigeria have been driven by self-interest and other primordial considerations, which take priority over that of the public. The state has failed in three major areas: security of lives and properties, promotion of the rule of law, and provision of visionary leadership. Political parties continue to be dominated by ex-military
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