The “Big Big” Salaries of the “Diaspora” Ministers
By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D. INTRODUCTIONNigeria is a funny place – and a dangerous one to boot. The ongoing controversy over the “big big” differential pay bein...
Read more INTRODUCTIONNigeria is a funny place – and a dangerous one to boot. The ongoing controversy over the “big big” differential pay bein...
Read moreINTRODUCTIONOne of the dividends of privatization, deregulation and consumer democracy in Nigeria has been the recent “forcing” of the GSM operato...
Read moreThe latest scandal of the moment, following last week’s break of the Bribery-For-Budget Education Ministry/National Assembly scandal, is the o...
Read moreThe August 3, 2006 resignation of the Nigeria's erstwhile Minister for Finance - and more lately Foreign Minister - Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is intrig...
Read moreINTRODUCTIONThe period between September 15, 2005, when Bayelsa State Governor and former Nigerian Air Force Squadron Leader Diepreye Solomon Pe...
Read moreCompatriots:NDI is one of many foreign monitors of our ongoing elections. Below you will find its official preliminary statement.It is significa...
Read moreHow I Got My INEC Voter Registration Card in Nigeria On Friday, November 17, I drove from Abuja to my home-town Ode-Ekiti, arriving there at abou...
Read moreWe feel highly honoured to have been invited to participate in this historic occasion of the 12th anniversary, commemorating June 12, 1993 presidentia...
Read moreDespite the fact that the elections of 2005 were massively rigged in favor of the PDP led administration including that of Ondo State. Some of the gov...
Read moreAll our children are watching as the corrupt, the privileged and their associates engage in a fight never witnessed in the history of our Country. Suc...
Read moreWhen I started the "Owners of Nigeria" about four months ago, I have received emails from people all over the world. Some castigating me, some commend...
Read moreIt is interesting seeing groups springing up again with the same people coming together to fight for “our freedom.”It seems, to me, that we are si...
Read moreAfter a controversial victory of late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua of the 1992 Presidential primaries of the Social Democratic Party and the attendant compla...
Read moreBefore 1994, Abacha believed that to succeed, the Yoruba must be carried along; he saw the wisdom is choosing Lt. Gen. Oladipo Diya as his deputy. Ini...
Read moreWe experienced an unprecedented treasury looting under Abacha, like in the time of his predecessor. While that of Babangida was a type of dishonestly ...
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From the Powell Memo to Project 2025: How a 1971 Corporate Strategy Became a Global Template for Power In August 1971, a corporate lawyer named L...
The Market’s Mood Ring: How Volatility Across Assets Traces a Hidden Geometry of SentimentIf you want a fast, honest way to describe modern markets,...
Nigeria’s grid collapses are not ‘bad luck’ – They are a design failure, and we know how to fix themFirst published in VANGUARD on February 3,...
Islands of Credibility: Nigeria’s Best Reform Strategy Starts in the StatesFirst published in VANGUARD on January 31, 2026 https://www.vanguard...
Project 2025 Agenda and Healthcare in NigeriaThe US and Nigeria signed a five-year $5.1B Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 19, 2025, to bo...