The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come under scrutiny following its request for ₦126 billion for its 2025 operations, a non-election year. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday, said that the umpire would require about N126 billion to fund its activities in 2025 and begin preparation for the 2027 general elections. Mahmood stated this at the National Assembly …

When an American author, Chris Fussell, wrote that “in any bureaucracy, there’s a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction,” he was not being sarcastic. He wrote with the conviction that stiff bureaucracy, like the Nigerian variant, is stultifying. The recent disclosure by the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, …