When does Africa’s security really count?
Olukayode Oyeleye
February 20, 2023
Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, and the 36th Ordinary Session of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, got underway at the weekend. Common to those two disparate meetings were security issues. While the Munich meeting considered the invasion of Ukraine […]
The place of CSOs in subnational IGR expansion
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoFebruary 20, 2023
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have earned a long-standing reputation for successfully inter-mediating policymakers and implementers on the one hand and the citizens on the other with fruitful outcomes. Civil society groups belong to the class of associations neither owned by the government nor the family. They are also primarily nonprofit-focused. Some of the […]
US oil dilemma and Africa’s opportunities
Olukayode OyeleyeFebruary 13, 2023
AT THE STATE OF THE UNION address last week Tuesday night of February 7, 2023, in the United States, President Joe Biden momentarily turned melodramatic halfway through his speech when he was complaining about the “Big Oil.” Before straying away from his prepared speech, he said “that Big Oil just reported record profits. Last year, […]
Sustaining transparency and accountability at subnationals beyond the SFTAS programme
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoFebruary 13, 2023
For many years, governors exploited the relative budgetary independence of their states to enrich themselves corruptly, limit citizens’ rights to participate in governance, and support a perverse culture that undermined their ability to fulfil their commitments to employees and citizens. The strategy was simple: prevent the citizens from having adequate information about the government. Fuzzy, […]
US oil dilemma and Africa’s opportunities
Olukayode OyeleyeFebruary 13, 2023
AT THE STATE OF THE UNION address last week Tuesday night of February 7, 2023, in the United States, President Joe Biden momentarily turned melodramatic halfway through his speech when he was complaining about the “Big Oil.” Before straying away from his prepared speech, he said “that Big Oil just reported record profits. Last year, […]
Improving taxpayer compliance through effective communication
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoFebruary 6, 2023
Adequate information and knowledge facilitate conviction and sound decisions. It is even more potent in delivering these benefits, the more accurate, relevant, convincing and easier to understand. Due to this lack of conviction, many citizens do not trust the government enough and therefore resist or fail to comply with their tax payment obligations. In response, […]
Africa’s bumpy road to regional economic cooperation (9)
Olukayode OyeleyeFebruary 6, 2023
MOROCCO PULLED OUT of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1984, as it was then known, and remained outside it until January 31, 2017, when it returned to the group, now known as African Union (AU). Morocco’s grouse for withdrawing its OAU membership was in protest against the OAU’s acceptance of the Sahrawi Arab […]
Awakening entrepreneurship in subnational governments
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJanuary 30, 2023
This article is a near-perfect clone of my essay “Awakening government entrepreneurship”, published in this newspaper’s July 6, 2020 edition. The significant difference between that article and this one is the focus. While the earlier publication focused on the Nigerian government, this one is narrower. Nevertheless, the message is the same, and the underlying principles […]
On the increase in Third Party insurance premium
Francis EwheridoJanuary 30, 2023
A circular dated December 22, 2022, from the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) increased the premium and limit of liability of various classes of motor insurance. Private motor third party limit was increased from N1 million to N3 million; own goods limit was increased to N5m; staff bus was increased to N3m; trucks/general cartage; special types […]
Africa’s bumpy road to regional economic cooperation (8)
Olukayode OyeleyeJanuary 30, 2023
DEPENDENCY IS NOT supposed to mean vulnerability. But it sometimes does. In country relations, in particular, it means just that, placing dependent countries at the mercy of those providing some sorts of support. And many African countries are dependent for reasons of their locations, costing them greatly. Landlocked countries of Africa are somehow dependent on […]