One of the things we know from the history of democratisation all over the world is that no country has…
Browsing: Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim
This year’s Kano Social Influencers Summit which ended yesterday had about 600 physical participants in addition to hundreds of online…
I left Maiduguri Monday evening and I was already worried because so many residents were expressing fears that a serious…
The Nigerian government is increasingly responding to protests against corruption, human rights violations, and governance failures as subversion, treason and…
This week, I was in Accra, Ghana for the third West Africa Citizen’s Summit organised by the civil society movement…
This week is yet another terrible one marked by the circulation of a video showing the blood-soaked image of the…
This is a National Assembly that has for decades refused to tell Nigerians the true amount they receive each month as salary and allowances. There was a breach in their armour of secrecy this week when Senator Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila (NNPP, Kano), on Wednesday, confirmed that he receives about N21+1 million monthly as his perquisite for representing the people of Kano South Senatorial District in the 10th National Assembly.
The political class, entrusted with the responsibility of leading the nation towards a brighter future, has seemingly benefited immensely, while the people who voted them into power continue to grapple with the harsh realities of economic hardship, insecurity, and pervasive corruption.
Yesterday, the protests started and are scheduled to continue for ten days. It was not supposed to happen. Government said…
The name “Dangote” resonates in virtually every household in Nigeria and millions of other households in the rest of Africa. In Nigeria, no household can escape the daily use of a series of household essential commodities from the Dangote group: salt, sugar, rice, fruit drinks, vegetable oil, seasoning pasta, and other products such as cement, flour, etc, among others.