Analysis Headlines Nigeria

Nigeria is unmasking citizens online at record levels but there are no rights – yet

Ihesiulo Grace 12 November 2017 0

A recently released report by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) revealed an emerging trend of user information and content removal requests by African Governments to Internet and telecommunications companies. These companies, including Facebook,

Analysis Politics

Mixed reaction trails Lagos Eviction of former Deputy Speaker from residence

Ihesiulo Grace 11 November 2017 0

On Friday, November 3rd, 2017 Policemen from the office of the Lagos State Governor without the order of the Court invaded the No 3, Sasegbon Street, GRA, Ikeja residence of the Tejuoshos, evicted some of the occupants while others were imprisoned within the premises and finally sealed off the property on the excuse that the […]

Analysis Politics

Anambra governorship: Contenders, pretenders and jokers

Ihesiulo Grace 10 November 2017 0

Governorship elections in Nigeria come every four years. It is normally an opportunity for the electorates to mark the script of the governor and the ruling party, because the four years of governance is considered an examination for them. It is the people who are the examiners that will mark the script and score them […]

Analysis

FG’s oil, gas reforms fast-tracking private sector-led investments – Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 7 November 2017 0

The Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo Solicits private sector cooperation in the realization of FG’s clean energy economy initiative. He also solicits the cooperation and support for the clean energy economy efforts as well. He made this request at the 55th anniversary celebration of oil producers’ trade section (opts) of the Lagos Chambers of Commerce […]

Analysis Headlines Oil & Gas Politics

Kachikwu v Baru face-off – Matters Arising

Ihesiulo Grace 1 November 2017 0

Svetlana Alliluyeva, the youngest child and only daughter of ruthless Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin once famously said that “the one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.” In whatever form or name it comes, whether letter, memo or missive, the act of writing letters to those in authority appears […]

Analysis Headlines Labour Nigeria

Fractured and fractious unions: Inside Nigerian labour’s identity crisis

Ihesiulo Grace 25 October 2017 0

Commendable or shoddy, astute or shady, apt or pretentious; the range of possible opinions are diverse and depending on the inclination of the observer, can be regarded as valid for many aspects of Nigerian labour unions. Pointedly, unions in Africa’s largest economy are undergoing something of an identity crisis, one that is little discussed and […]

Analysis Headlines

[ICYMI] Recalled corrupt officers: Maina is not the only one

Ihesiulo Grace 22 October 2017 0

On Sunday, February 17, 2013, a fugitive fled from Nigeria to escape arrest by the police and other security agents on his trail. Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina was reported to have fled to Saudi Arabia, and then settled in the United Arab Emirates following an arrest warrant issued against him by the Senate, and the decision […]

Analysis Energy Headlines News Nigeria

Ogoniland will not be clean until 2047

Ihesiulo Grace 20 October 2017 0

On Thursday 4th August, 2011, when the United Nations Environment Programme presented its Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland to the Nigerian Government, there was a sigh of relief. In the draft press release that followed, the first paragraph read “The assessment has been unprecedented. Over a 14-month period, the UNEP team examined more than 200 locations, […]

Analysis Entertainment Life & Times TV

6 things you may have missed from The Voice Nigeria Season 2

Ihesiulo Grace 6 October 2017 0

By Ese Grage Concluding its 2nd Season, The Voice Nigeria has stamped its authority as Nigeria’s premier singing competition. With successful artists like Arese, Chike and Nonso who plays the sexy lovesick doctor on MNet’s Battle Ground, it is no wonder the show is very popular with aspiring singers. This Season pitched a unique selection […]

Analysis Oil & Gas

It’s one step forward, two backward for FG as another fuel scarcity looms

Ihesiulo Grace 5 October 2017 0

If there is one thing Nigerians dread, it is fuel scarcity as it heralds several other pains. However, it seems Nigerians should prepare as another fuel scarcity looms large in the horizon, if indications coming from the various unions involved are anything to go by. For the Federal Government (FG), though, it’s back to the […]

Analysis News Nigeria

Analysis – 70 days after hope dims for Unimaid lecturers

Ihesiulo Grace 3 October 2017 0

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has said the military are making efforts to rescue the four lecturers of the University of Maiduguri that were abducted by the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, in Borno State, a spokesperson has said. The DHQ’s spokesperson, Major-General John Enenche said, “intelligence is still being processed to bring the victims back […]

Analysis Features Headlines Nigeria Property Real Estate and Environment

Dubai Delusion: How Lagos Govt orchestrated brutal land grab

Ihesiulo Grace 3 October 2017 0

… We demolished the area to forestall environmental disaster –State Govt It was perhaps the most brutal and bloodiest land grab since the sacking of Maroko in the 1990s. For years the inhabitant of Otodo-Gbame, a small fishing community overlooking the Lagos Lagoon just outside Lekki Phase 1, have been threatened with eviction by the […]

Analysis Features

Ogiemwonyi : Tale of role models who become rule breakers

Ihesiulo Grace 26 September 2017 0

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday, 19th September, 2017, demonstrated strong commitment to ensuring than Nigerian capital market remains credible and transparent with high zero tolerance to unethical practices. Chief Executive Officer of Partnership Securities, Victor Ogiemwonyi, and some of his employees were alleged to have misappropriated funds of

Analysis Headlines Insurance Nigeria

Review of Pension Reform Act 2014: Reversing a working system?

Ihesiulo Grace 25 September 2017 0

New Bill seeks exclusion of Customs, Immigration, EFCC, others from Act If Nigeria’s pensions landscape was a Google Search bar and one had the opportunity to enter any given year before 2004, the results would have been easily organisable on a neat continuum ranging from confusion to an abject mess. The rules were a spaghetti-like […]

Analysis Headlines News Nigeria

NGO Bill causes ruckus

Ihesiulo Grace 24 September 2017 0

A serving senator of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Shehu Sani, has kicked against the Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO regulatory bill which is currently before the House of Representatives. The controversial bill seeks to set up a federal agency to be known as the NGO Regulatory Commission to regulate activities of NGO’s and civil society organisations, […]

Analysis Features Headlines

Like Makurdi, like Houston, what are the hurricanes telling us?

Ihesiulo Grace 21 September 2017 0

The past month has been particularly stormy and devastating around the world. From Makurdi in Nigeria’s Benue State, to Houston, Texas in the United States, and a large swathe of the Caribbean have been left drenched and battered by torrential rains and record level hurricanes. For several days earlier this month, the heavens opened up […]

Analysis Features

How bank directors’ dismal stakes deter local investors

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2017 0

A company’s director is an appointed or elected member of the board of directors who, with other directors, has the responsibility for determining and implementing the company’s policy. He/she does not have to be a stockholder (shareholder) or an employee of the firm, and may only hold the office of director. Directors act on the […]

Analysis Features

Understanding different investment types, rewards

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2017 0

Though resources are scarce and economic environment continues to bite harder, yet people focused on safeguarding their future, ensure that irrespective of what they earn, a portion of it is kept aside for future use, in a form of investment. For one to make any form of investment, money must be involved, exchange hands for […]

Analysis Features

Promoting Made in Nigeria products as way to sustain economy

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2017 0

The call for Made in Nigeria Products was again brought to the front burner recently at the 18th Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture where stakeholders stressed the need to encourage the purchase of locally made products in order to sustain the nation’s economy. A country’s development index can be measured by what it buys and borrows […]

Analysis Headlines Nigeria

Analysis: The army is wrong

Ihesiulo Grace 15 September 2017 0

The power to declare an entity a “proscribed organisation” under the Terrorism Prevention Act belongs to the NSA, HAGF or the IGP, and not to the DHQ. Such an action has to be gazetted with the approval of the President. So far only 2 groups have been so gazetted: Ansaru & Boko Haram. For clarity, […]