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Beyond legal reform on power sector

Beyond legal reform on power sector

By Ani Nkemjika Nnenne FOLLOWING the recent constitutional amendment assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari, the power sector regulatory body – the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, now has powers to grant states licence to generate, transmit and distribute electricity. Prior to the review, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Articles […]
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Global Democracy Summit: Of what importance to Africa?

Global Democracy Summit: Of what importance to Africa?

From a practical point of view, in the past 20 years, under the banner of “anti- terrorism”, the United States has repeatedly waged wars in various parts of the world, including Africa, and forcibly exported “democracy”.  

With love to Emmanuel Iwanyanwu

With love to Emmanuel Iwanyanwu

The fact that our revered leader and one of the fathers of our nation, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, can sit there and say nothing when Chief (Dr.) Emmanuel Iwanyanwu, an elder statesman who I have always respected, describes the entire Yoruba race as “rascals” that the Igbo “will DEAL with” which tells me that the rumour that the rumours about him may well be true.

Tony Elumelu: The Africapitalist @ 60 

Tony Elumelu: The Africapitalist @ 60 

By Toni Kan Seven years ago, I received an email asking my company to submit a proposal for a biography project on Tony OnyemaechiElumelu, economist, banking and finance guru, serial entrepreneur, Africapitalist and philanthropist. We had just publishedour well-received biography of Samuel Shonibare, one of Nigeria’s richest men of the 60s. We wasted no time […]