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The Culture of Mindless Plunder and Squander Continues Unabated

November 15, 2023admin(0)

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...

Judgement Without Justice

September 9, 2023admin(0)

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...

Is our hope in the courts misplaced?

May 3, 2023admin(0)

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...

Reflection on the February 28th 2023 Nigeria General Election

March 16, 2023admin(0)

Yesterday, I went out to vote in the regional election 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 the way to...

Let’s Go and Vote

February 25, 2023admin(0)

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...

The Udeogu (Orji Uzor Kalu ) Case: A Major Setback To The Administration Of Justice

July 21, 2022admin(0)

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...

Why We Should Look Beyond the 2023 Election

July 21, 2022admin(0)

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 Main Lesson of the Nigerian Political Party Primary Elections of 2022

July 21, 2022admin(0)

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...

Townhall Radio Welcome Message

June 23, 2022admin(0)

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...

Recommendations and Referrals and the moral dilemma in National Development

August 19, 2024admin(0)

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...

The Culture of Mindless Plunder and Squander Continues Unabated

November 15, 2023admin(0)

Townhall Radio Welcome Message

June 23, 2022admin(0)

The Women Behind Zimbabwe’s Striking Hut Painting Art

November 24, 2024admin(0)

Written By Kudzanai Musengi Peggy Masuku poses for a photograph in Matobo, Matabeleland on September 29, 2024. With its picturesque granite hills and balancing rocks, Matobo Hills is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site, having the highest concentration of known rock paintings on the African continent, dating back to over a dozen millenia and has...

Change Series 9: How to Change Other People

September 3, 2022admin(0)

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...

Change Series 8: The Elements of Change

September 3, 2022admin(0)

‘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 7: How to Build the Muscle of Change

September 3, 2022admin(0)

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 6: 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them

September 3, 2022admin(0)

“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 3: The Secret Rule of Changing Anything

August 19, 2022admin(0)

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 2: The Thinking Habit That Changed My Life

August 19, 2022admin(0)

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 5: The Half Step That Will Change Your Life

August 19, 2022admin(0)

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 4: How to Change Your Life (A User’s Guide)

August 18, 2022admin(0)

“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 1: Change Your Story to Change Your Life

August 16, 2022admin(0)

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...

The Individual as a Basic Pre-Requisite to Social Change

August 15, 2022admin(0)

“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...

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June 23, 2022admin(0)

Ghana on my mind

December 10, 2024admin(0)

Written By Dakuku Peterside In the heart of West Africa, where the echoes of drums narrate ancient tales of resilience, hope, and ambition, one nation rises as a luminous star in the ever-changing tapestry of democracy — Ghana. Its journey, marked by scars of struggle, is a testament to the resilience and determination of its...

In the matter of Dele Farotimi before the Star Chamber

December 10, 2024admin(0)

Written By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Paul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and a sense of adventure It was his role as a dad that endangered his job as a judge. One night around 1983, Anyebe caught his son...

Enough is Enough! This harassment and intimidation of innocent citizens must stop now

December 6, 2024admin(0)

Pyrates condemn arrest, detention of Farotimi, demand immediate release The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) has condemned the unjust arrest and subsequent detention in prison custody of human rights activist and lawyer Mr Dele Farotimi over an alleged case of defamation against the founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola. The group described...

Afenifere calls for immediate release of Dele Farotimi

December 5, 2024admin(0)

The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Thursday, said the arrest and subsequent detention of legal practitioner and civil rights activist, Dele Farotimi, at the Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court on Wednesday, was motivated by extraneous considerations outside the legal practice. Afenifere, in a statement signed by its Deputy Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, and the National Publicity Secretary...

Corruption has brought Nigeria to its knees, says ICPC

December 5, 2024admin(0)

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission said corruption has brought Nigeria to its knees economically and socially and called on the citizenry to be courageous to expose it. Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner for Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Mrs Ekere Usiere, stated this on Thursday in Yenagoa to mark the...

What detained activist lawyer Dele Farotimi wrote about Nigeria’s legal heavyweight Afe Babalola

December 5, 2024admin(0)

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...

World Bank Uncovers Corruption In Nigeria’s Water Sector: $32Million Unaccounted For

December 4, 2024admin(0)

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...

Over 30 Nigerian Ministries, Agencies Caught In N14.33billion Tax Fraud Under Ex-President Buhari

December 4, 2024admin(0)

The Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF) report has unearthed tax irregularities amounting to N14.33billion across more than 30 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of the Nigerian government. The findings, disclosed in the Auditor-General’s Annual Report on Non-Compliance and Internal Control Weaknesses, highlight serious lapses in tax deductions, remittances, and compliance with financial regulations...

INVESTIGATION: Dubious Contracts: How fugitive arms broker made millions of dollars from Nigeria Part 2

December 4, 2024admin(0)

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...

INVESTIGATION: Dubious Contracts: How fugitive arms broker made millions of dollars from Nigeria Part 1

December 4, 2024admin(0)

This investigation reveals how Nigeria’s dubious defence contracts gave Hima Aboubakar, a Nigerien arms broker, instant riches. Written By Ade Adesomoju 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...

‘Publish names of contractors who vanished with 31 MDAs’ N167bn’; SERAP tells Tinubu

December 2, 2024admin(0)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu “to direct the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Olawale Edun and the Accountant-General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Sakirat Madein to disclose the specific names of the companies and contractors who collected over N167 billion from 31 ministries, departments and agencies...

Thoughts on the proposed regional government in Nigeria

December 2, 2024admin(0)

Written by Bolutife Oluwadele The Nigerian regional system was once a beautiful political structure that governed every facet of Nigerian life. This structure successfully held sway in the West, North, and East until 1966. It began to disintegrate after the coup that led to the assassination of its prime minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and...