Abia State, south-east Nigeria is one of 36 states in the federation and the fifth smallest in terms of landmass. But this presumed Eldorado that goes by the sobriquet: “God’s Own State” has been a victim of trampling political elephants.
It does seem like the season, or more generally, an era of multi-layered levies and taxes.
From May 29, 2023, the vestiges of the inflationary trends that marked the last days of the Buhari administration, became a permanent feature for citizens of Africa’s largest economy under Buhari’s successor – with headline inflation above 30 percent (currently 33%) in the first quarter of 2024.
Case can change” is a euphemism often used to describe how quickly the police could transform an innocent person to a principal suspect or, indeed, set free a hardened criminal and procure a subterfuge to explain it away – that is, if they must explain.
Nigeria is the only country in the world in which history is not taught.
Nigerians will be heading to the polls on February 25 and March 11, 2023, to elect a new president, members of national and state assemblies, and governors. It will be another seamless transition from one democratically elected government to another since 1999 when Nigerians shed off the cankerworm of military dictatorship.
As the world celebrated the New Year amidst lingering old wars, the major item that brought hope about a probable quicker end to the human tragedy being unleashed in Gaza was the case filed against the State of Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), otherwise called the World Court, at the Hague.
In a joint statement to mark the 2023 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund said Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
