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Politics
Nigeria needs stringent budget deadlines By Odilim Enwegbara
Nigeria’s perennial budgetary problems can only be solved with a law setting stringent budgetary deadlines – from the budget’s presentation, passage, and signing to setting implementation milestones. That our kind of present budgetary problems have […]
Politics
TNA can save Nigeria’s economy By Greg Odogwu
Thank goodness for oil glut. We now wake up every day to realise the things we did wrong in the past. One fundamental thing we missed being proper national data acquisition and management. Is it […]
Issues/Policy
How anti-corruption became a game By Abimbola Adelakun
In June 2005, a former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, was being tried for corruption. It was the era of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the over-sensationalised anti-corruption trials […]
Politics
Crippling EFCC Act with Reps amendment ……. PUNCH
ACCUSTOMED to engaging in proxy battles, the House of Representatives is at it again with its decision to amend the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act, amid the ongoing onslaught against those who looted the […]
Issues/Policy
A tale of two countries By Lawal Ogienagbon
Rats and mosquitoes. These are the vectors of the two diseases shaking the two heavily populated countries of Nigeria and Brazil to their foundations. These diseases have killed scores of people in both countries and […]
Society
Akintola, 50 years after assassination – 2 By Jide Osuntokun
The political intervention of the British led to the emergence of the Nigerian state as we know it today; but even more relevant for our present purpose was the Christian Missionary proselytisation of Southern Nigeria, […]
Issues/Policy
Nigeria, Clark and his children By Jide Oluwajuyitan
Pa Kiagbodo Edwin Clark, an elder statesman and former Commissioner for Information in the Gowon’s post-civil war administration is an illustrious Nigerian. On account of his immeasurable contributions to the development of the country especially […]
Security
State Police: A desideratum By Ray Ekpu
GOVERNOR Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State must be a generous giver. The Police can testify to that because a few weeks ago the governor, a certified accountant, had counted the cost of crime in Lagos […]
Economy
Devaluing the devaluation delusions (1) By Temitope Oshikoya
“I am not here (in Nigeria) nor is my team in this country to negotiate a loan with conditionality…”However”, there could be more added flexibility in the monetary policy…” – Christine Lagarde, IMF’s Managing Director. […]
Politics
PDP’s Strategy for 2019, Olalekan Waheed Adigun
If the PDP is truly serious about getting back to Aso Rock is 2019, it must do some reality check. As things stand, should a presidential election hold today, other things being equal, it has […]
Politics
Coup in PDP as Gulak ‘sacks’ Secondus ……. SUN
THE leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new dimension yesterday as Mr. Ahmed Gulak, the erstwhile Special Adviser on Political Matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan said he has sacked Acting […]
Politics
Senate to pass budget February 25 ……. SUN
CHAIRMAN of the Appropriation Committee in the Senate, Danjuma Goje, said yesterday the Upper Legistative Chamber would pass the 2016 national budget on February 25. The Senate concluded week-long debate on the budget yesterday. It […]
CRIME
EFCC may release Obaigbena on administrative bail – Investigation ……. NEW TELEGRAPH
Strong indications emerged Wednesday night, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may soon release the Publisher of ThisDay newspapers and President of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Mr. Nduka Obaigbena.
Economy
NIGERIA STOCK EXCHANGE TO BUY NASDAQ MONITORING SYSTEM …… REUTERS
LAGOS, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s bourse plans to buy a price monitoring system from Nasdaq to protect against market manipulation, the stock exchange said on Wednesday, after stocks shed 17 percent in the first […]
Security
Chibok: Deadly suicide blasts hit north-eastern Nigerian town …… BBC
Suicide bombers have hit the north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok during market day, killing at least 13 people, reports said. At least three attackers were involved, some of them female, witnesses said. More than 30 […]
Politics
Why I shunned Bello’s inauguration – Faleke ……. PUNCH
Deputy Governor-elect of Kogi State, Mr. James Faleke, has said he was not invited to Wednesday’s swearing-in ceremony and that he had no reason to attend the event. He explained that this was because he was […]
Economy
Nigeria Devaluation Bets Tempered as Emefiele Keeps Naira’s Peg …….. BLOOMEBERG
Suddenly, the possibility of a more than 20 percent slump in Nigeria’s currency is off the cards, for now at least. Traders on Tuesday lowered their expectations on the size of a naira devaluation as […]
Security
At least 12 killed in suicide blasts in north Nigeria ……. REUTERS
At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls […]
Issues/Policy
Why Jonathan trusted Dasuki with campaign funds — Aziegbemi
Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, university don turned politician served two terms in the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and won a reputation of steadfast loyalty to the party and […]