By Tunde Akanni, PhD For my former colleague at Concord Press, now a young grandma, Patience Akpan, every child or grandchild of hers is her favourite. The scintillatingly beauteous and fash... Read more
All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ Against Corruption in Nigeria?
The 2019 global corruption perception index is out and, in the case of Nigeria, all the coalitions, propaganda, discourses, convictions and threats directed at corruption have not amounted t... Read more
Illicit Financial Flows, (IFF) has been a key marker of the African protest at the way the world order works. The African Union/Economic Commission for Africa panel that examined it in 2011... Read more
Nigeria is set to witness a radical turn at the National Assembly to be brought about by a combination of dynamics, says Mallam Auwal Ibrahim Musa aka Rafsanjani, a leading activist of the N... Read more
It is no longer that rare as it was before but the problem is still there. That is, the paucity of NGOs from the global South with qualitative insight being at the table where discourses whi... Read more
This is the fifth and last in the series of interpretive data on the question of how power might shape probity after the 2019 elections. Compiled within a MacArthur Foundation gaze on the ‘r... Read more
In the posh Transcorp Hilton in the heart of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city is located the Civil Society Situation Room on the series of elections that were to have started earlier today, Feb... Read more
The global Corruption Perception Index for 2018 shows that Nigeria has neither regressed nor progressed in terms of perceived level of corruption in the public sector. It has moved up from 1... Read more
While the active participation of Non-Governmental Organisations, (NGOs) is fully guaranteed in the global space, that of NGOs from the global South has remained problematic. Against that ba... Read more
Transparency International, more simply known as TI does not engage in what some students of Multiple Modernities call intellectual espionage. TI stays at the level of perception instead of... Read more
