Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known with convenient laziness as AKD, became Sri Lanka’s latest president after a runoff count focusing on preferential votes.  The very fact that it went to a second count ...

Nigeria certainly has cause to cheer: twenty-five unbroken years of democracy in a sub-region swarmed by coup plotters is no mean feat; neither is sixty-four years of independence something to be ...

Nigerian police used teargas and live ammunition to break up the #FearlessInOctober protest in Abuja.  The protesters, chanting slogans such as We are hungry and There is hardship in Nigeria, were met ...

The Federal Government has inked a N122 billion project equity participation agreement with six gas infrastructure businesses targeted at revamping the midstream gas value chain across the country.

In this piece, I want to beam a critical light on the significance and role of the public/civil servant within the power dynamics of governance in the Nigerian government. My fundamental concern ...

Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite internet service provider, has raised prices for its Nigerian residential and personal customers. According to THE WHISTLER, the corporation increased the subscription ...

The current economic issues facing Nigeria are a result of a budgetary imbalance that President Bola Tinubu has said must be corrected. This was said by the President in his nationwide broadcast on ...

In my Independence article last year, I asked Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo and Tafawa Balewa to weep ( My reasons were hinged on the dark reality that it was becoming glaring that their labours ...

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Nigerians, today we gather to raise our glasses in honor of our great nation, Nigeria, as she celebrates her 64th birthday. Birthdays are special moments of reflection and ...

For years, we’ve been taught that colonialism is the main reason Nigeria is underdeveloped. Sure, colonialism left a mark, but continuing to blame it for all our problems doesn’t hold up anymore. It’s ...

In an effort to promote innovation across the economy, the Nigerian federal government has revealed that it is in talks with the Commonwealth of Nations to accept Nigerians into its AI Academy.  On ...

There has been an uproar in some quarters over the decision of the National Assembly to approve the securitization of Nigeria’s 'Ways and Means', (W&M) loans to the Federal Government, currently ...