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It is not an overstatement to describe former President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in office as ‘disastrous’. But let’s focus on how the Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Affairs fared under the past administration. The Buhari-led administration prided itself on executing myriads of social intervention schemes...
On June 12, 2023, President Bola Tinubu signed into law, the Nigeria Data Protection Bill, 2022. The bill was conveyed to the National Assembly by former President Muhammadu Buhari and was passed by the two chambers in April 2023. Objectives of the bill, now an Act include,...
The mining sector remains conspicuously underdeveloped despite its undeniably great potential. We are still importing minerals iron ore, and salt which could be produced locally. While former President Muhammadu Buhari is already enjoying his retirement in Daura, and his minister jostling between their home towns...
As stated in the first series of a review of bills signed by former President Muhammadu Buhari, despite the various indices that point to economic retrogression in the last eight years, it was not all gloom, and doom under Daura’s pride. The Buhari administration enacted...
In this final part of the three-part series, we look at three more bills aimed at social reforms that were passed by former President Muhammadu Buhari. A bill to grant financial autonomy to state house of assembly and state judiciary The bill signed into law by former...
President Muhammadu Buhari, the 15th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will be coasting back home to Daura in the next couple of days, after eight years in office. While his supporters and especially his appointees argue that he has given his best to...
Abubakar Malami has to be one of the most controversial Ministers of Justice Nigeria has had since the beginning of the current democratic dispensation, judging by the degree of criticisms, accusations and counter-accusations he endured as the country’s Attorney General. Appointed in 2015, he was...
Out of 419 candidates who contested for the position of governor in the just concluded governorship election, only 25 were female, which amounted to just 5.9 per cent; 94.1 per cent were male. Females make up about 49 per cent of Nigeria’s population; and according to...
The 2023 general elections, unlike previous elections, witnessed improved participation of young people, who make up the largest share of the country’s population. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, there were 93,469,008 registered voters in the 2023 general election; 37,060,399 or 39.65 per cent of...
Various adjectives have been used to qualify and describe Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. It was an unprecedented three-horse race, at least in the current democratic dispensation; it has the lowest turnout in the history of elections in Nigeria; and it was one fraught with irregularities...