A New Perspective
Hon. Unyime Idem, representing Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Federal Constituency and Chair of the House Committee on Public Procurement, has sponsored the…
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, has partnered with Odyssey Energy Solutions to launch a $7.5 million…
Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, has removed 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts in the first half of the year that…
Today, the government reports a national decline among children aged six to 59 months from 42 per cent in 2010 to 15 per cent in 2025. However, eliminating malaria will test the health system in Nigeria
A financially vulnerable newsroom is more susceptible to political, commercial and personal influence. Improving journalists’ working conditions can therefore strengthen the quality and independence of journalism itself.
Livestock diseases have no national borders. Animals can move from one country to another through formal or informal routes, potentially carrying diseases into new populations.
The situation in Mayam is consequently more than an environmental or local mining dispute. It raises questions about Nigeria’s economic security, national security, environmental protection and the government’s ability to exercise control over its mineral resources.
One particularly important context is that Nigeria also joined the IEA family as an Association country in July 2026, giving the country simultaneous access to two major international energy platforms.
Political parties routinely undertake outreach programmes, and citizens are free to support whichever party they choose. However, when welfare assistance and political mobilisation occur together, the relationship between social support and electoral politics inevitably attracts scrutiny.
Under the proposed digital registration system, every registered animal could receive a unique identity linked to information such as ownership, vaccination records, veterinary treatment and movement history.
The Minister of Power argued that the administration is confronting problems accumulated over roughly fifty years.
There is merit in recognising that Nigeria’s electricity challenges did not emerge overnight.
Can the Federal Government demonstrate that its technical and vocational programmes are turning public investment into employable skills, productive businesses and jobs?
If Parliament can obtain a credible answer to that question, its oversight exercise will have served a much greater purpose than compelling a minister to attend a hearing.
Freezing government funds could potentially affect salaries, public services and other state responsibilities.
That creates a difficult balance. Anti-corruption enforcement should not stop merely because an election is approaching, but enforcement should equally not become, or appear to become, a mechanism for influencing an electoral contest.
