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Check if Buhari's score card is healthy after six years as President of Nigeria.

Tanko Mohammed Nigeria alone accounts for $18 billion out of the annual $88.6 which illicit financial flows rob Africa each year. In its Africa Report 2020, UNCTAD’s Economic Development, states that the billions lost annually to illicit financial flows (IFFs) are almost equal to Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Foreign…

Dr Okonjo-Iweala, first woman boss of WTO, is strategising to position Africa in the World boday.

Despite all the oil and gas windfall for decades, Africa's biggest economy, Nigeria, is home to poverty.

Tanko Mohammed Nigeria has confirmed that more than half of its almost 201 million people are poor with 94 million below extreme poverty line. Poverty has continued to ravage the oil-rich nation, in spite of the billions of dollars the nation has fetched from crude oil which it started drilling…

Tanko Mohammed Dogs, the domestic animals many cherish so much as pets in many places in the world, are the same many cherish as delicacy in some other parts of the world. While many dress and provide for the welfare of dogs and see them as companions, some others take…

Haley Ott Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has taken the reins as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization at what critics are calling a crisis moment for the global body. The organization brings countries around the world together to fairly manage trade, but it’s facing a rise in nationalism and…

Nigeria moves to repatriate 200,000 refugeess from neighboring nations.

Tanko Mohammed The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised an alarm that Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria, is at a critical juncture, having been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Executive Board of IMF said after the conclusion of its 2020 Article IV Consultation with Nigeria that it was however…

Today, I write about our voracious hunger for the lie. We love lies, and love even more those who lie to us. This is sad but true. After many decades of vociferous denial, I have finally accepted this truism – that “bad” is more powerful and seductive than “good”. This…