Estimated Reading Time: 10On May 31, 2017, Lagos radio presenter Nelly Kalu was in the middle of a conversation on Nigeria Info 99.3FM with a geopolitical analyst when a call came to the station’s general manager. He was to shut down the show immediately and kick both people off their[Read More…]
Author: David Hundeyin
Murder in Uyo: Who Killed Hiny Umoren?
Estimated Reading Time: 15On Friday April 29, a 26 year-old lady set out around 1PM to attend a job interview in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Having recently completed her university program despite losing both parents, she was looking for a way to support herself before being called up for the[Read More…]
Isa Ali Pantami – The Inside Story of Nigeria’s Minister of Communications & Digital Economy
Estimated Reading Time: 12Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami is the proverbial chameleon with one eye on the past and one eye on the future. Depending on the situation or who is involved in it, he sometimes comes across as a cosmopolitan technocrat with a[Read More…]
‘Last Week I Went Into Exile’: The return of abacha-ism and the assault on freedom In Nigeria
Estimated Reading Time: 17“I’ve been getting calls. I’ve been getting many calls, David. You have been writing things. Have you seen the SSS Headquarters in Abuja? It goes 7 storeys underground. When they put you inside there, even with these your glasses, you won’t be able to see anything.” These[Read More…]
White Knights And Black Unicorns: The tall tales of Marek Zmyslowski
Estimated Reading Time: 24“It’s Africa, Stupid.” That is the name of a TED Talk that has been viewed 1.7 million times on YouTube. The speaker is a charismatic Polish entrepreneur called Marek Zmyslowski who spent 4 years working in Nigeria’s startup ecosystem. To the uninitiated, he is Marek Zmyslowski, former[Read More…]
Insincerity, Bad Faith and Isomorphic Mimicry: The Harmonised Police Bill 2020 in Focus
Estimated Reading Time: 8On Thursday September 17, President Muhammadu Buhari signed an important piece of legislation into law. The new harmonised Nigeria Police Force Establishment bill was hailed by presidential Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina as a modern framework that would transform the police into a “more[Read More…]
Aggressive Land Grab Meets Pork Barrel: Analysis of the National Water Resources Bill 2020
Estimated Reading Time: 8It starts off innocently enough. “A bill for an act to establish a regulatory framework for the water resources sector in Nigeria, provide for the equitable and sustainable development, management, use and conservation of Nigeria’s surface water and groundwater resources; and for related matters.” None of this[Read More…]
State Theft, Cronyism and Civil Right Violations: Inside the Hidden Horrors of the CAMA 2020 Bill
Estimated Reading Time: 7Imagine you woke up from a bad dream yesterday, only to find out that you are in another bad dream today. Then you wake up from it tomorrow, only to find yourself in another bad dream, which gives way to yet another nightmare and so on in[Read More…]
The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Workers Insist Glo is Doing Everything to Avoid Paying Them
Estimated Reading Time: 3Last month, NewsWireNGR published an exclusive story looking into Nigeria’s second largest telecoms company’s dealings with expatriate Indian labour involving allegations of unpaid entitlements, and allegedly breaking Indian employment law to carry out illegal recruitment. Following the story, it then emerged that the expatriates in question subsequently[Read More…]
New details emerge on the arrest of Abia lawyer allegedly detained by DSS without trial
Estimated Reading Time: 4New details have emerged surrounding the continued incarceration of Emperor Gabriel Ogbonna, the lawyer detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) allegedly on the orders of Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu. Arrested on March 24, 2020 by the DSS on allegations of cybercrime and terrorism, Mr.[Read More…]
