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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....