2019 Budget: Matters Arising (2)
The expenditure framework of the 2019 budget proposal continues the tradition of getting the priorities wrong. Of the overall expenditure projection of N8.83tn, recurrent non-debt...
2019 Budget Proposals: Matters Arising
The first issue is that the deficit is in the sum of N1.895tn and it is to be financed mainly by borrowing the sum of...
Electoral Act Amendment Bill: Towards Free, Fair And Credible Elections
Nigerians were recently greeted with the news that President Muhammadu Buhari had declined assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2018. This is the fourth...
Towards Effective Resource Mobilisation, Management And Leadership
A proper understanding of the context of resources within a nation space, its mobilisation and use for the common good is imperative. This is so,...
Boko Haram: Issues For Engagement
Recent successful attacks by Boko Haram terrorists on military formations and civilian communities bring to the fore the need to re-evaluate and re-examine the strategies...
Exceptional Arguments Against The Minimum Wage
The tripartite negotiations on the national minimum wage involving the government, private sector employers and the labour unions have thrown up fundamental issues of governance....
We Need Issue-Based Campaigns
In a few days from now, the Independent National Electoral Commission will formally declare Nigeria’s political space open for campaigns by candidates flying the flags...
Lessons From Parties’ Nomination Processes
Political parties constitute the engine of democracy as they are the only entities permitted by law to present candidates for elections in Nigeria. In other...
Lessons From Parties’ Nomination Process
Political parties constitute the engine of democracy as they are the only entities permitted by law to present candidates for elections in Nigeria. In other...
Buhari’s Travel Ban vs Nigeria’s Constitutional Order
Laws, policies, rules and guidelines are made for specific purposes and to take care of certain challenges facing a society. They are made to suppress...
Nigeria at 58
Today, October 1, 2018 is 58 years since the British colonial masters left and handed over governance to Nigerians. Ideally, it should be a time...
Making Sense Of Nigeria’s Fiscal Crisis
As we move towards the 2019 presidential election, there is trouble with our national finances, being the source of revenue to fund the federal and...
A Political Finance Monitoring Group Is Urgently Needed
The use of money in elections is not new in Nigeria or in any part of the world. Money and other resources are needed for...
No, Mr. President, The Rule Of Law Is Supreme
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari started a debate during his opening speech at the Nigerian Bar Association 2018 conference. He stated that national security and...
1999-2018: The democracy scorecard
Nigeria ready for democracy or, put in another way, are Nigerians ready for democratic consolidation? These questions are germane and imperative considering where we are...
2019 Elections And Health Care Funding
Nigeria is on its way to critical elections in February 2019. Now therefore is the time for aspirants, candidates and political parties to ask for...
CSJ Bags United Nation’s Special Status
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has been granted the United Nation’s special consultation status through its arm-Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).ECOSOC had adopted the...
Leave The Legislature To Flourish
Nigeria is under siege by the current crop of leaders who are supposed to protect democratic norms, instead, they are engaged in acts which are...
Where are the budget implementation reports?
The very basis of the authority of government is the will of the people which is given through periodic elections. Governance as such is delegated...
When Politics Trumps Governance
The tenure of constitutionally elected political office holders in Nigeria is four years. It is the same for the executive and legislature and the legitimate...
Budget Timeline: Override Presidential Veto Now
In public finance management as well as the budget cycle, there is a time to prepare budgets, another for implementation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation and...
Leadership As A Defining Factor
There are certain recurrent features in countries that have evolved and grown from a poor and backward status to a developed, prosperous and continually evolving...
Lessons From The Executive Legislative Budget Feud
The controversy arising from the passage of the 2018 federal budget on the respective roles of the executive and legislative arms of government in the...
Buhari’s Economic Scorecard At 3 (2)
Reforming the economy came with a Federal Government promise of increased local content in government commerce. The Executive Order on Support for Local Content in...
Buhari’s Economic Scorecard At 3 (1)
It is already three years into the tenure of four years for the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. This column, today, reviews the economic performance of...
Imperatives Of Political Finance Reforms
Upon assumption of office, one of the first issues of monumental corruption revealed by the Muhammadu Buhari administration was the diversion and distribution of money...
Who Will Tell The President?
Who will tell President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria under his watch is sliding in a reverse gear? That things are falling apart under his watch...
The insanity Of Nigeria’s Budgeting Process
The 2018 federal Appropriation Bill was submitted to the National Assembly on November 7, 2017. Although the timing did not meet fit and good practices...
Funding health care under Basic Health Care Provision Fund
Nigeria’s health indicators can only be compared with countries either in war or just coming out of a war situation. Whether it is in maternal...
Implications of Dino Melaye’s Failed Recall
The failed recall of Senator Dino Melaye on Saturday provides an opportunity for lessons to be drawn from the implementation of the recall constitutional provisions....