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# Townhall Radio

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- [THE TRAGEDY OF BUHARISM: As Buhari Leaves a Legacy of Debts, Deaths, Divisions and Decay](https://townhallradio.co/the-tragedy-of-buharism-as-buhari-leaves-a-legacy-of-debts-deaths-divisions-and-decay/) - "The man with a groan never moved the world except to more groans." - John G. Lake ( 1870-1948) Let me begin this essay with a test. I want to know how long you have been reading newspapers and following Nigerian Affairs and, especially how sharp your memory is. Then I also want to provide
- [How Detained Nigeria's Central Bank Governor, Emefiele Implicated Suspended Head Of Anti-Corruption Body, EFCC, Bawa In Naira Redesign Scam](https://townhallradio.co/how-detained-nigerias-central-bank-governor-emefiele-implicated-suspended-head-of-anti-corruption-body-efcc-bawa-in-naira-redesign-scam/) - Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has identified the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, as an accomplice in the Naira redesign scam that rocked the country some months ago. SaharaReporters learnt on Thursday that Emefiele who is being detained by the country’s secret police,
- [Anti-Graft Agency, EFCC Detains AMCON Receiver Manager, Omokide Over Financial Fraud In Arik Air Totalling Over N120billion](https://townhallradio.co/anti-graft-agency-efcc-detains-amcon-receiver-manager-omokide-over-financial-fraud-in-arik-air-totalling-over-n120billion/) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the receiver manager appointed by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), for Arik Nigeria Limited, Kamilu Omokide, over financial mismanagement and diversion of monies totalling billions of naira. SaharaReporters learnt that the EFCC detained Omokide alongside one Captain Samuel Caulcrick in connection with alleged illegal
- [EXCLUSIVE: Suspended Central Bank Governor, Emefiele Identifies Top Traditional Rulers, Army Generals, Judges As Accomplices Amid Corruption Scandal](https://townhallradio.co/exclusive-suspended-central-bank-governor-emefiele-identifies-top-traditional-rulers-army-generals-judges-as-accomplices-amid-corruption-scandal/) - Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) has identified some traditional rulers, Nigerian Army generals and judges as his accomplices, SaharaReporters learnt from DSS sources. Emefiele, who is said to be “cooperating with investigators” reportedly narrated how he
- [A Nation of Contradictions – The Official Lie and the Lived Truth](https://townhallradio.co/a-nation-of-contradictions-the-official-lie-and-the-lived-truth/) - An Autopsy of Nigeria’s Fractured Reality in December 2025 – From Statistical Gaslighting to the Lakurawa Caliphate By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma, AI-KO The date today is December 10, 2025. The rare December rain around my Abijo neighbourhood and the harmattan haze is already drifting across the land – not as the familiar herald of
- [The Vultures Are Circling Again: But This Time, There Will Be No Corpse to Devour](https://townhallradio.co/the-vultures-are-circling-again-but-this-time-there-will-be-no-corpse-to-devour/) - The Vultures Are Circling Again. By Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma, AI-KO “Behold, they shall surely gather, but not by me.” – Isaiah 54:15 [This essay, my first in 2026, has been forged from the heat of lived experience, drawing heavily from my extensive personal notes and the raw pages of my journals, accumulated over years
- [BREAKING: Ex-Labour Minister Chris Ngige Remanded In Kuje Prison Over Alleged N2.2Billion Contract Fraud After Pleading Not Guilty](https://townhallradio.co/breaking-ex-labour-minister-chris-ngige-remanded-in-kuje-prison-over-alleged-n2-2billion-contract-fraud-after-pleading-not-guilty/) - The former Labour and Productivity Minister, Chris Ngige, has entered a not guilty plea at the FCT High Court, Gwarimpa, Abuja, in the alleged use of his position while in office to confer undue advantage on associates through the award of multiple contracts amounting to N2,261,722,535.84. Justice Maryam Hassan ordered that Ngige be remanded at
- [Townhall Radio Welcome Message](https://townhallradio.co/townhall-radio-welcome-message/) - Townhall Radio is a content network dedicated to mobilising for constructive social change. We provide a proactive platform for examining development issues bestriding Sub-Sahara Africa. And articulating viable solutions to improve living conditions for all. There is a desperate need for basic institutional transformations in Sub-Sahara Africa. Institutional reforms are needed to cater for the
- [The Main Lesson of the Nigerian Political Party Primary Elections of 2022](https://townhallradio.co/the-main-lesson-of-the-political-party-primary-elections-of-2022/) - Once again, many of the terrible rots that have ridden Nigerian body politic and the entire political culture in the country have been exposed and re-enforced by the recent political party primaries election exercise in preparation for the coming 2023 general elections. These incorrigible politicians have indeed elevated their crafty instincts and intrigues to “next-level” in
- [Why We Should Look Beyond the 2023 Election](https://townhallradio.co/why-we-should-look-beyond-the-2023-election/) - Every four years since 1999, Nigeria runs a political calendar where the country is subjected to a grotesque ritual to certify those to loot our treasury dry for the next four years. In our characteristic self-preserving wicked mischief – we call it a general election and pretend that it is so. The truth is that
- [The Udeogu (Orji Uzor Kalu ) Case: A Major Setback To The Administration Of Justice](https://townhallradio.co/the-udeogu-orji-uzor-kalu-case-a-major-setback-to-the-administration-of-justice/) - The Supreme Court, the Apex Court, the last bus stop, is supposed to establish a profound code of conduct for social behaviour and interaction between man and man, man and society and man and government itself. Its judgments are expected to be the embodiment of the highest values in the nation’s social and political culture.
- [The Individual as a Basic Pre-Requisite to Social Change](https://townhallradio.co/the-individual-as-a-basic-pre-requisite-to-social-change/) - “And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed” – Kahlil Gibran We are sadly watching the unfortunate unravelling of the Nigerian
- [Change Series 1: Change Your Story to Change Your Life](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-1-change-your-story-to-change-your-life/) - Whenever we undertake a new change in our lives — whether it’s starting a new job or business, or changing a new habit — we tell ourselves a story about it. We’re the hero of our story. Unfortunately, it’s not usually a very good story — it involves the hero not believing he or she
- [Change Series 4: How to Change Your Life (A User’s Guide)](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-4-how-to-change-your-life-a-users-guide/) - “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” – Mike Murdock Start with a simple statement: what do you want to be? Are you hoping to someday be a writer, a musician, a designer, a programmer, a polyglot, a carpenter, a manga artist, an entrepreneur, an expert at something?
- [Change Series 5: The Half Step That Will Change Your Life](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-5-the-half-step-that-will-change-your-life/) - You’d be surprised to know how many emails I get where people are stuck in their lives. They’re broke, or unmotivated, or in a job they hate, or they can’t find their passion, or they can’t get motivated to get healthy. And they don’t know where to start. It hurts to read these emails. It
- [Change Series 2: The Thinking Habit That Changed My Life](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-2-the-thinking-habit-that-changed-my-life/) - I remember one evening, when my life was pretty different and I was overweight and deeply in debt and a smoker and had such a hard time changing things … I wasn’t feeling too good about my life. I felt horrible about myself, and wondered why I was stuck. I felt hopeless and helpless, and generally depressed
- [Change Series 3: The Secret Rule of Changing Anything](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-3-the-secret-rule-of-changing-anything/) - I’ve learned a lot about changing habits over the years, and have taught thousands of people how to do it. The hardest habits to change, by far, are the ones people can’t seem to control. They want to change, but can’t seem to find the “willpower” (a term I don’t believe in). For me, some
- [Change Series 6: 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-6-7-little-habits-that-can-change-your-life-and-how-to-form-them/) - “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle If you could just pick one or two (or seven) habits to create in the next few months — habits that will have the most impact on your life — what would they be? I often get asked this
- [Change Series 7: How to Build the Muscle of Change](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-7-how-to-build-the-muscle-of-change/) - When you try to make a change in your life, create a new habit, set a resolution … are you usually good at it, or does the change fail after 2-3 weeks? Some people are better at it than others because they’ve learned some simple strategies for changing, but also because they’ve built up their change
- [Change Series 8: The Elements of Change](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-8-the-elements-of-change/) - ‘Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.’ ~Shunryu Suzuki Change can be a difficult thing. Most people want to change their lives, in some way, but find
- [Change Series 9: How to Change Other People](https://townhallradio.co/change-series-9-how-to-change-other-people/) - If only we could get others to be more considerate, less annoying, more diligent, see our point of view … How often have you wanted to change other people so they’d be better? Better spouses, kids, roommates, coworkers, employees? We want our kids to study harder and clean up after themselves, our spouses to be
- [Let’s Go and Vote](https://townhallradio.co/lets-go-and-vote/) - In this very early hour of this fateful day the 25th of February 2023, I feel inclined to write down a few scrambling thoughts before going to sleep. We are at the cusp of choosing our next President. We must largely choose from the pack of our mostly inept and corrupt politicians. And so, we
- [Reflection on the February 28th 2023 Nigeria General Election](https://townhallradio.co/reflection-on-the-february-28th-2023-nigeria-general-election/) - Yesterday, I went out to vote in the regional election in the Netherlands, where I’m living at the moment. The election was held on Wednesday – a work day. Scheduled to start from 7.30 am to 9.00 pm. It’s to enable people to go to the nearest polling stations within their neighbourhoods to vote on
- [Is our hope in the courts misplaced?](https://townhallradio.co/is-our-hope-in-the-courts-misplaced/) - The elections have come and gone. INEC declared Mr Bola Tinubu as president-elect to the widespread discontent of many who voted. As a result, all the major opposition parties are challenging the validity of the election results in court. They are questioning the legitimacy of the process and the accuracy of the results as announced
- [Tinubu’s Government Will Be Worse Than Predecessor, Buhari In Fighting Corruption – Prof Badejo](https://townhallradio.co/tinubus-government-will-be-worse-than-predecessor-buhari-in-fighting-corruption-prof-badejo/) - President Bola Tinubu’s government will be worse than former president, Muhammadu Buhari – who was himself woeful – in the area of tackling corruption in the country, a Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Babafemi Badejo, has said. The professor stated this while delivering the first inaugural lecture of Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State,
- [How President Tinubu Nominated Nine Ex-Governors As Ministers, Including Bello Matawalle Under N70Billion Corruption Probe](https://townhallradio.co/how-president-tinubu-nominated-nine-ex-governors-as-ministers-including-bello-matawalle-under-n70billion-corruption-probe/) - President Bola Tinubu’s first and second batches of ministerial nominees were saturated with names of former state governors including Bello Matawalle who is under probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged multi-billion naira fraud. In his first list released last week and sent to the Nigerian senate for screening, Tinubu nominated
- [Alleged N120Billion Fraud: Falana Asks Anti-Corruption Body, EFCC For Certified True Copy Of Probe Report On Arik Air Receiver Manager, Omokide](https://townhallradio.co/alleged-n120billion-fraud-falana-asks-anti-corruption-body-efcc-for-certified-true-copy-of-probe-report-on-arik-air-receiver-manager-omokide/) - Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), who is also Arik Nigeria Limited’s lawyer has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to provide the certified true copy of its probe of Kamilu Omokide, the Receiver Manager appointed by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), for Arik Nigeria Limited, on his alleged sale of
- [79% Of Nigerians Don’t Believe Tinubu Administration Is Serious About Tackling Corruption –Poll](https://townhallradio.co/79-of-nigerians-dont-believe-tinubu-administration-is-serious-about-tackling-corruption-poll/) - A presidential satisfaction and governance survey has revealed that 79% of Nigerians do not believe President Bola Tinubu’s administration is serious about tackling corruption. The survey, which is for Tinubu’s second month in office, was conducted by the Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria (GAIN). The survey was administered from July 29 to August 6, 2023,
- [Judgement Without Justice](https://townhallradio.co/judgement-without-justice/) - In the words of Emmeline Pankhurst “Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.” The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) judgement of 6th September 2023 echoed that unfortunate truth. Many thoughts ran through my mind as I stoically endured the 13-hour torturous judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT). As I sat there diligently
- [Nigeria’s Secret Police, DSS Arrests Top Central Bank Director, Benjamin Fakunle At Retirement Party, Grills Him Over Alleged Corruption](https://townhallradio.co/nigerias-secret-police-dss-arrests-top-central-bank-director-benjamin-fakunle-at-retirement-party-grills-him-over-alleged-corruption/) - The outgoing Finance Director at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Benjamin Fakunle, has been arrested and detained by the Department of State Service (DSS). Fakunle is being grilled over his role in the seven-year audited accounts of the apex bank alleged to have been fraudulently prepared, findings by InsideBusinessNG revealed. He was reportedly arrested
- [Nigerian President’s CSU Diploma is a Fake](https://townhallradio.co/nigerian-presidents-csu-diploma-is-a-fake/) - I gotta admit. This one story shows the level of corruption in Nigeria and it makes you cry and laugh at the same time. The President of Nigeria Bola Tinubu, produced a fake diploma from Chicago State University to an election board in Nigeria that claims he graduated from the South Side institution in 1979.
- [Nigeria Anti-corruption Body, EFCC Probes Former Governors, Ex-Ministers, Recovers N12.7Billion From One Individual](https://townhallradio.co/nigeria-anti-corruption-body-efcc-probes-former-governors-ex-ministers-recovers-n12-7billion-from-one-individual/) - Nigeria's anti-corruption body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has recovered a combined sum of N27,184,357,524.52 and $19,084,419.33 from three different money laundering cases. The agency disclosed that out of the N27.2 billion recovered, N12.7 billion was from one individual. According to the commission, it is also investigating former governors, ex-ministers, and
- [Tinubu Redefines Priority Areas, Reactivates Presidential Project Delivery Tracker](https://townhallradio.co/tinubu-redefines-priority-areas-reactivates-presidential-project-delivery-tracker/) - President Bola Tinubu has redefined the priority areas of his administration and directed the reactivation of the Presidential Delivery Tracker, to empower Nigerians to track the implementation of projects across the country in real time. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed that the decisions were
- [How Ibrahim Babangida Laid Foundation of a Destroyed Nigeria](https://townhallradio.co/how-ibrahim-babangida-laid-foundation-of-a-destroyed-nigeria/) - Written by Barr. Fidel Albert I'll attempt a modest effort to respond to Prof. Yusuf Dankofa, a cerebral lawyer and law lecturer, who incidentally taught me Legal Methods in my first year at the Faculty of Law, ABU, Zaria. You see, the learned Professor believes I was unfairly critical of Babangida (IBB) yesterday, when I
- [The Culture of Mindless Plunder and Squander Continues Unabated](https://townhallradio.co/the-culture-of-mindless-plunder-and-squander-continues-unabated/) - Introduction As Nigeria teeter on the edge of bankruptcy and most households increasingly find it hard to know when and where their next meal will come from, the jarring insensitivity of our leaders in government is simply shocking as their culture of mindless, selfish and wasteful public expenditure has continued unabetted. Harsh conditions of living
- [Before we rethink western liberal democracy in Africa, By Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò](https://townhallradio.co/before-we-rethink-western-liberal-democracy-in-africa-by-olufemi-taiwo/) - I can only hope that this piece inspires us all to follow the lead of our esteemed ex-Excellency — Is that out of Òwu? I don’t know any equivalent in Ìbàdàn — and get on with the business not only of rethinking all the stuff that the evil Westerners have saddled us with but, more
- [Judicial Mercenarism](https://townhallradio.co/judicial-mercenarism/) - By Chidi Odinkalu IN July 1977, the Organisation of African Unity adopted a Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa. It offered a definition of a mercenary to include someone who “is motivated to take part in hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and in fact is promised by or on behalf
- [How Corruption Works in Nigeria](https://townhallradio.co/how-corruption-works-in-nigeria/) - Corruption seemed intertwined with the evolution of Nigeria as a nation-state. It has been a malaise, a big elephant in the room, regularly talked about, loathed through synchronic rhetoric, but growing in systematic proportion, with little or no hope of redemption. The discourse of corruption looks, therefore, like an exposition of the nation’s attempt at
- [Alarm Bells Ring As Nigeria’s Refineries Collapse By 92%](https://townhallradio.co/alarm-bells-ring-as-nigerias-refineries-collapse-by-92/) - The World Energy 2023 report has unearthed a staggering decline of 92% in Nigeria’s crude oil refining output over the past ten years, raising concerns about the country’s energy sector. From a robust production level of 92,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2012, the output plummeted drastically to a meagre 6,000 bpd in 2022, representing
- [Tinubu Government To Spend N65Billion On Office Renovations, Travels, But Police Trust Fund Got N57Billion To Protect 200Million Nigerians](https://townhallradio.co/tinubu-government-to-spend-n65billion-on-office-renovations-travels-but-police-trust-fund-got-n57billion-to-protect-200million-nigerians/) - The former Anambra State governor lamented that President Tinubu approved the allocation of N15.961 billion for trips for his aides and the Vice President’s aides, adding that by all indications, the President and VP will be spending about N30 billion on trips from the budget. The candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023
- [Recommendations and Referrals and the moral dilemma in National Development](https://townhallradio.co/recommendations-and-referrals-and-the-moral-dilemma-in-national-development/) - I was in Germany for the Humboldt Fellowship in 1996/97 at the University of Hamburg. A German scholar and I were engaged in a hearty discussion. Everything was going on well when he asked me this question: “why is it that all recommendations written by Nigerians are always overly positive, even when it is obvious
- [Recommendations and Referrals and the moral dilemma in National Development](https://townhallradio.co/recommendations-and-referrals-and-the-moral-dilemma-in-national-development-2/) - Written by F O Egbokhare I was in Germany for the Humboldt Fellowship in 1996/97 at the University of Hamburg. A German scholar and I were engaged in a hearty discussion. Everything was going on well when he asked me this question: “why is it that all recommendations written by Nigerians are always overly positive,
- [How Senate deputy president, principal officers got multi-billion naira constituency projects in 2024 Budget](https://townhallradio.co/how-senate-deputy-president-principal-officers-got-multi-billion-naira-constituency-projects-in-2024-budget/) - Presiding and principal officers of the Senate, Nigeria’s highest legislative body, allocated billions of naira worth of constituency projects to themselves in the 2024 budget, PREMIUM TIMES can report. The projects, statutorily known as the Zonal Intervention Project (ZIP), are shared among the 109 Senate members. PREMIUM TIMES reported how constituency projects worth N4.142 billion were allocated
- [The baleful legacy of a lamentable tenure](https://townhallradio.co/the-baleful-legacy-of-a-lamentable-tenure/) - By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week old decision to judicially install Hope Uzodinma as the Governor of Imo State, citing as its main reason the need to preserve the authority
- [Paris 2024: Beyond Allowances, Raising Performance Bar](https://townhallradio.co/paris-2024-beyond-allowances-raising-performance-bar/) - It was clear, even before the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris ended for Team Nigeria, the knives would be out very quickly for whichever head available for cutting off. The reported12 billion naira approved for the Games by the Federal Government looked humongous, while the country was facing some form of discontent. Ordinarily, the knives
- [Opinion Part 1: Tinubu’s contemptuous of Nigerians](https://townhallradio.co/opinion-part-1-tinubus-contemptuous-of-nigerians/) - Written by UGO ONUOHA IN their heart of hearts even the most ardent supporters of Nigeria’s president know that Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu is contemptuous of Nigerians. But in fairness to him, his contempt for the people did not just manifest after he was controversially and surreptitiously awarded the presidential election by the corrupt
- [Opinion Part 2: Political malpractices and governance malfeasance](https://townhallradio.co/opinion-part-2-political-malpractices-and-governance-malfeasance/) - Written by UGO ONUOHA LAST week the presidency said in a statement that Nigeria’s president, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would be travelling to the People’s Republic of China in the first week of September. Unless something has changed in our comprehension of the English language, the first week of September will ordinarily mean between
- [Opinion Part 3: ‘Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins,…’](https://townhallradio.co/opinion-part-3-where-ever-law-ends-tyranny-begins/) - Written by UGO ONUOHA Captured hereunder are some thoughts of the British philosopher and political theorist John Locke in his enduring treatises in the 17th century. He wrote about the form of his world and power relations going back to almost 1000 years ago. Though he was a genius, he would still have been
- [Tinubu’s jet is needless indulgence](https://townhallradio.co/tinubus-jet-is-needless-indulgence/) - THE purchase of another presidential jet by the Bola Tinubu administration underlines the disdain with which the country’s rulers hold the citizens. That the President finds it convenient to indulge in luxurious ostentation at a time when millions of Nigerians are wallowing in poverty, and misery is an affront to decency. It is provocative, insensitive,
- [Sixteen states and their fight against democracy, By Umar Yakubu](https://townhallradio.co/sixteen-states-and-their-fight-against-democracy-by-umar-yakubu/) - …none of the states is performing well in terms of employment, industrialisation, education, healthcare, and other socio-economic indicators, primarily due to public sector corruption. The recent Transparency and Integrity Index (TII) highlights the governance failures of the states involved in the lawsuit. This Index evaluates government performance across 29 variables, including public procurement, fiscal
- [The President is a sick man, By Festus Adedayo](https://townhallradio.co/the-president-is-a-sick-man-by-festus-adedayo/) - On 4 April, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title “The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’” It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff jetting out of Aso Rock Villa like a wandering evil spirit. At the drop of a hat, Buhari flew to the
- [Chuks Iloegbunam tells General Gowon that only the truth shall make Nigeria free](https://townhallradio.co/chuks-iloegbunam-tells-general-gowon-that-only-the-truth-shall-make-nigeria-free/) - …Faith, without good works, is dead Dear General Yakubu Gowon. You spoke to the Daily Trust on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The rare interview, conducted by Andrew Agbese and Isiaka Wakili, marked your 90th birthday anniversary. In it, you celebrated revisionism and claimed things that were not backed by evidence. This open letter is to
- [Bad governance and the fear of regime change](https://townhallradio.co/bad-governance-and-the-fear-of-regime-change/) - Written by Jibrin Ibrahim The recent case of the arraignment of dozens of children in court for their alleged participation in the End Bad Governance Protests is a clear indication of the government in toxification with the fear of regime change. How else can one explain the case taken to court by the government’s
- [How arms broker Hima Aboubakar got millions dollars from Nigeria](https://townhallradio.co/how/) - Amid the spilling of raw emotions over Boko Haram’s shocking kidnapping of 214 Chibok schoolgirls in Borno State, north-east Nigeria, in April 2014, the Nigerian government awarded contracts worth millions of dollars for the supply of weapons and tools to boost its offensive against the terrorists. But before formalising the contracts, officials began transferring millions
- [No leader can fix Nigeria with 1999 constitution – Anyaoku](https://townhallradio.co/no-leader-can-fix-nigeria-with-1999-constitution-anyaoku/) - Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on Wednesday, warned that if Nigeria refused to do away with the 1999 Constitution, it would be hard for anyone to fix the country. He described Nigeria as a pluralistic country that needed to address its diversity with true federal constitutions. “To those who think that the trouble with
- [Human rights complaints surge by 27% amid economic hardship](https://townhallradio.co/human-rights-complaints-surge-by-27-amid-economic-hardship/) - Human rights violations have seen a sharp increase amid the country’s worsening economic situation, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) reported on Thursday. The commission recorded 427,606 human rights complaints in October, marking a 27 per cent rise in petitions compared to the previous month. This marks the third consecutive month that the NHRC has
- [Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit may hit $878 billion 26yrs, report says](https://townhallradio.co/nigerias-infrastructural-deficit-may-hit-878-billion-26yrs-report-says/) - Written By Collins Olayinka, Abuja Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit is likely to widen to $878 billion in the next 26 years, a report by Agustos and Co. has said. The report, ‘2024 Infrastructure Industry Report’, noted that though with a rapidly expanding and urbanising population, Nigeria faces a significant infrastructure deficit, the country’s current infrastructure stock
- [Leadership failure and state capture in Nigeria, By Olusegun Obasanjo](https://townhallradio.co/leadership-failure-and-state-capture-in-nigeria-by-olusegun-obasanjo/) - Without being immodest, I will begin by saying that it is appropriate that I was invited to deliver the keynote address at a gathering in honour of the late Professor Chinua Achebe. Not just because I have been Head of State and President of Nigerian on two different periods of our beloved nation’s history –
- [The president may be angry, but we’re hungry](https://townhallradio.co/the-president-may-be-angry-but-were-hungry/) - Written Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf Nigerians are hungry. But who will tell our President? Who will dare convey such treasonable tale to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, especially when he is so busy seeking investors for us? Which of his throng of information couriers and propaganda merchants would jeopardise their juicy positions by bearing such information? Anyone who
- [Islamism and jihadi terrorism in Northern Nigeria](https://townhallradio.co/islamism-and-jihadi-terrorism-in-northern-nigeria/) - Written by Majeed Dahiru To uproot the seeds of the radical Islamist ideology and render its soils infertile for the nourishing, germinating and blooming of violent Jihadism will require the reversal of Islamism and the secularisation of the Muslim North, going forward. To this end, all instruments of political Islam, along with the imposition of
- [140 years after the Berlin West Africa Conference](https://townhallradio.co/140-years-after-the-berlin-west-africa-conference/) - Written by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu & Chepkorir Sambu Described by one scholar on its centenary as “perhaps the greatest historical movement of modern times”, the Berlin Conference West Africa Conference began shortly after noon on 15 November 1884. Interrupted only by a short break at the end of the year and the beginning of the
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- [INVESTIGATION: Dubious Contracts: How fugitive arms broker made millions of dollars from Nigeria Part 2](https://townhallradio.co/investigation-dubious-contracts-how-fugitive-arms-broker-made-millions-of-dollars-from-nigeria-part-2/) - This report uncovers more black holes, including property purchases and secret vaults of an offshore haven into which a fugitive arms broker sank millions of dollars obtained through Nigeria’s dubious defence contracts. Written By Adeyemi AdesomojuIn January 2015, arms broker Hima Aboubakar hosted a man and a woman for a meeting in his suite at
- [World Bank Uncovers Corruption In Nigeria's Water Sector: $32Million Unaccounted For](https://townhallradio.co/world-bank-uncovers-corruption-in-nigerias-water-sector-32million-unaccounted-for/) - The World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) has made a shocking discovery, uncovering $32 million in missing funds from Nigeria's water project. The global bank which made the revelation in its recently released Fiscal Year 2024 Sanctions System Annual Report, stated that the unaccounted funds were meant to improve water infrastructure in Nigeria but were
- [What detained activist lawyer Dele Farotimi wrote about Nigeria's legal heavyweight Afe Babalola](https://townhallradio.co/what-detained-activist-lawyer-dele-farotimi-wrote-about-nigerias-legal-heavyweight-afe-babalola/) - A book authored by activist lawyer Dele Farotimi has drawn the fury of legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Afe Babalola. The book, a raw and unfiltered account of the author’s views about the Nigerian justice system, is titled, ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System’. Mr Farotimi alleged in the
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- [Tinubu’s taxing times](https://townhallradio.co/tinubus-taxing-times/) - Written By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The crisis that afflicts the current proposals is that of a government unwilling to put in the work required to redress deficits of state and governmental legitimacy around the country. Fiscal governance and reform is not as complex as the administration and its mouthpieces would like to suggest. Taxation is
- [Dele Farotimi is Insanely Courageous](https://townhallradio.co/dele-farotimi-is-insanely-courageous/) - “The Nigerian Judicial System has no justice to dispense” - Dele Farotimi I bought and read the book by Dele Farotimi - Nigeria and Its Justice Criminal System. From his riveting account of his experiences and understanding of how Nigeria's judicial systems work and his informed decision to publish this book, I must confess
- [Nigeria’s hostages in law](https://townhallradio.co/nigerias-hostages-in-law/) - Written by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Those who wonder how the country ended up with the utterly shameful charade being orchestrated in a squalid courtroom in Ekiti in the case of Dele Farotimi have Peter Mallong to thank for having written the manual on judicial enablement of the practice of rendering citizens into hostages in
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- [Investigation: Abandoned barite mines poisoning people in Nigerian communities](https://townhallradio.co/abandoned-barite-mines-poisoning-people-in-nigerian-communities/) - Written by Ekpali Saint “I don’t want to die young,” Mr Ogina said of the impact of the barite mines on him and his family. “I plead with the government to do something urgently.” After working for about seven hours on his cassava farm during the dry season in February 2018, Nathaniel Ogina approached the
- [The making of a judicial selectorate, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu](https://townhallradio.co/the-making-of-a-judicial-selectorate-by-chidi-anselm-odinkalu/) - Anambra North senatorial constituency comprises seven Local Government Areas (LGAs). These are: Anambra East, Anambra West, Anyamelum, Ogbaru, Onitsha North, Onitsha South, and Oyi. The contest to represent it in the election to the Senate in 2007 turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Voting in the election occurred on 28 April
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