Nigeria
Buhari: The Messiah Who Will Not Save Nigeria
Bayo Omoboriowo, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Shamusudeen Kareem The Yorubas have a saying that if a child would…
Nigeria
President Buhari and the $1bn splurge on military equipment
President Buhari in April 2018 approved the release of $1bn for the procurement for military weapons with the stated intention of crushing…
Africa
Zuma has gone: but the ANC's inability to separate party from state is still a threat to democracy
Mashupye Herbert Maserumule, Tshwane University of Technology South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), glossed over the causes of what…
Africa
Corrupt African Leaders Pt. 2
This new month sees us looking at another villain of the month winner: DRC President Joseph Kabila. UK's Guardian recently wrote about…
Africa
Corrupt African Leaders Pt. 1
Another African leader gives a member of his family a highly lucrative and powerful position in his government and it isn't the…
Nigeria
Some thoughts on the current state of affairs in Nigeria (economy)
As the saying goes, "It's the economy, stupid", what's the point of fighting corruption if there's no jobs with an economy that…
Corruption
The net tightens
When news broke early this week about the arrest of Nigeria's former Minister of Petroleum Resources in London, majority of Nigerians were…
Nigeria
Nigeria's Oil Economy
The Nigerian Government must be feeling the heat now. When they made a budget for 2015, they didn't think the oil price…
Nigeria
Rewarding work
A chart by The Economist shows the pay level of legislators around the world and guess who is no 1 in the…
Nigeria
Super rich Nigerian Legislators
This news story from P.M. News makes a good reading for those interested in finding out about corruption and greed in Nigerian…