The senate and Hameed Ali, the comptroller general of Nigeria customs service (NCS), on Monday disagreed over protocol-related matters. The disagreement was sequel to the visit of the senate ad hoc committee on waste in […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission says the growing number of political parties may pose challenges for the commission in the 2019 general elections. The Chief Technical Adviser to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Bolade Eyinla, said […]
A returned cheque is a cheque that the bank does not honour. The cheque will be returned to the bank that submitted the cheque for payment (typically the recipients or payee’s bank). If you are […]
Let me declare at the outset that the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, is my friend. I also want to acknowledge the outstanding job he has been doing in the agricultural […]
This is the story of Paddy Adenuga, a young Nigerian and son of Dr Mike Adenuga, Globacom boss, on how at the age of 29, he tried to acquire one of the biggest oil companies […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it will impose the maximum possible penalties on any of its licencees implicated in masking of international telephone calls. The regulatory body announced this on Monday in Lagos, in […]
The United States announced Monday it was lifting its ban on refugees from 11 “high-risk” countries, but said those seeking to enter the US would come under much tougher scrutiny than in the past. Applicants […]
When Donald Trump unexpectedly won the US elections late in 2016, I wrote this https://www.thecable.ng/thoughts-american-election-2016. It was from a deep place. Although I had no direct stake in the election, I couldn’t bring myself to […]
And so, Olusegun Obasanjo, former Head of State and two-term civilian President wrote a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari praising him on his anti-corruption and security policies and scoring him low on his economic and […]
“For instance, if you are a civil servant on level 10 and you are driving a Mercedes Jeep (SUV) and you are living in a palace in Maitama (Abuja) and your lifestyle is such that […]
Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, is in the news for yet another controversy. It’s not about the statue of President George Weah of Liberia or that of President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe. While trying […]
Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Nigeria would have been a better place if the late former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme was allowed to play his rightful role in the Peoples […]
There was drama on Monday at the new wing of the Senate complex in Abuja after a National Assembly official physically assaulted the senate deputy minority whip, Abiodun Olujimi. The incident happened shortly before the […]
Ordinarily, I do my best to not react to anything Olusegun Obasanjo says. I do so not because I have nothing to say about his many effusions going back to his My Command days up […]
By Vincent Ujumadu & Anayo Okoli AWKA—Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, yesterday said the Federal Government has spent over N1 Billion on Ekwueme’s burial. This is even as all the roads leading […]
“As I speak to you, our external reserves stand above $31bn and that provides us with enough firepower to be able to defend the naira (N305=$1)” – CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, April 25, 2017 However, […]
The 2018 federal budget is tagged a “Budget of consolidation”. The name appears to be a response to the fact that Nigeria had just exited economic recession and there is the need to consolidate on […]
Have you ever seen a governor jump on a table, roar and spit fire? I saw Governor Ayodele Fayose do these during the public hearing on constitution review in February 2006. The venue was the […]
NIGERIA’s budgeting system, notorious for earmarking huge recurrent expenditure in excess of the capital component, is grossly flawed. This is, however, not the only defect. A couple of new surveys conducted by some non-governmental organisations […]
EXPLOSIONS from gas and fuel stations have become recurring decimals that lead to avoidable loss of lives across the country. In Lagos, seven deaths occurred in two separate incidents on January 16. A leak at […]
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