IN NOVEMBER 2022, Cyril Ramaphosa was on a state visit to Britain, beaming under the chandeliers of Buckingham Palace. South Africa’s…
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Ken ofori-atta, Ghana’s finance minister, is fond of invoking scripture in speeches on the economy. Recently, as the country defaulted…
John Ifediora. Editorial Commentary. The fight against corruption is always a difficult one, especially when conducted against individuals and corporations…
Kenneth Mohammed.* State capture is growing on every continent but only because the west helps to launder and hide money…
*Courtesy of Independent. President Joe Biden issued a memo Thursday instructing the federal government to elevate anti-corruption measures as a central U.S.…
The systematic looting of African economies by Africans is not news. While it remains the primary source of the continent’s…
Nigeria loses US$600 million annually to money laundering. Between the mid-1980s and 1999, Nigeria lost US$100billion to money laundering. In the so acclaimed democratic era, between 2001 and 2004, the country lost an estimated US$25billion to money laundering. Nigerians who specialise in international money transfer have also extorted about US$357,142,857 from overseas victims.
Editorial commentary. Recent events in Ethiopia, as horrific as they are, no longer shock or disturb the sensibilities of Africans.…
Editorial commentary. Like all nation-states before it, Nigeria is now confronted with stark existential choices — stay the…
*Article credit. WHEN BANKS started to fail and protesters began filling the streets in 2019, Moussa Khoury resisted the temptation…