Aare Amerijoye DOT.B There are moments in a nation’s life when the market becomes more honest than the parliament. When the price of rice speaks louder than campaign speeches.When the cost of bread humiliates statistics.When a mother stands before a pot and calculates not flavour, but survival. Nigeria is living through such a moment. This...

Aare Amerijoye DOT.B Nigeria stands at a defining hour. Inflation has thinned household tables. Youth unemployment has dimmed once-bright ambitions. The naira has endured turbulence. Businesses strain under policy uncertainty. In such a moment, leadership cannot be experimental. It cannot be rhetorical. It must be competent, courageous and economically literate. In this charged national atmosphere,...

By Kunle Oshobi In what critics are calling a devastating blow to Nigeria’s electoral integrity, the Nigerian Senate has rejected proposals to make the electronic transmission of election results mandatory, opting instead to retain ambiguous language that leaves critical loopholes open for potential manipulation ahead of the 2027 general elections. During the clause-by-clause consideration of...

The Akpabio-led Senate is fast proving itself to be an anti-democratic contraption. I have listened carefully to the arguments advanced by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the Senate spokesperson and other proponents of retaining the discretionary provisions of 2022 Electoral Act on electronic transmission of results rather than upholding the mandatory provisions of the...