By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D Nigeria has never suffered from a shortage of institutions created to fight corruption. We have the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. We...
There are deaths that become statistics, and there are deaths that should force a nation to interrogate itself. The tragedy at Okari Jetty in Okrika, Rivers...
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D There are moments when an economy appears to be improving while the people living inside it struggle to recognise the improvement. Nigeria...
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D.A child outside the classroom today is not merely an educational statistic. He or she is a question mark hovering over Nigeria’s tomorrow....
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D There is something fundamentally wrong when citizens have to look outside their country for an assessment of how transparently their own government...
By Sam Otuonye There are moments in history when a simple sentence captures the spirit of an entire political struggle. In Nigeria, one such sentence was:...
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D When governments speak of infrastructure, the public naturally thinks of roads, bridges, railways, airports, seaports and power stations. These remain indispensable, moving...
By Lemmy Ughegbe, Ph.D The rule of law is often threatened by corruption, abuse of power and impunity. Far less attention is paid to another, equally...
By POEM Fact: Mr Peter Obi is the number-one enemy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government, and the ruling party is not pretending otherwise. There is...