I first thought it was a joke until Fisayo Soyombo confirmed it himself. “It’s true. I’m in hiding,” he had said when asked to confirm if it was true that Nigeria’s security agencies were hunting […]
During the last third term for secondary schools in Nigeria, the first continuous assessment test was approaching, therefore, I decided to let my students air their view on a national issue; the on-going basic salary […]
The 2020 Federal Government budget was presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on 8th of October, 2019 at a time of subsisting domestic and global economic challenges. The budget is expansionary on […]
Do a country’s citizens get happier when slowly but surely propaganda is replacing essence of governance? Certainly ‘no’ you might say. But that appears to be the new face of politics in recent times as […]
My last published piece, “Revolutions that ‘fired’ young Leftists” (September 26, 2019), was actually an abridgment of what was originally planned to be a much longer essay. That longer essay would have included not only […]
When the young boy walked up to the stage assisted by his mother, the live audience and those watching on the television were curious. This boy, who was obviously autistic and blind – a fact […]
The hallowed chambers of the Nigerian Senate were rocked the other day by what reporters daubed ‘‘recruitment scandal’’ when some senators allegedly shared 100 jobs that had been allocated to the legislators by some federal […]
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has condemned the planned arrest of Nigerian investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo. It was reported that the Nigerian Government was planning to pick up the journalist following his undercover […]
A federal high court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of three landed properties belonging to Kola Aluko, an ally of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources. The properties are a $55 million […]
General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s military Head of State from 1966 -1975, turned 85 on Saturday, October 19, 2019. In a congratulatory message, President Muhammadu Buhari described him as a living legend and a symbol of […]
Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the […]
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a United States diplomat, has likened Nigeria’s political circle to an old men’s club. Thomas-Greenfield, who was the assistant secretary of State for African Affairs between 2013 and 2017, made this known on […]
Christopher Kolade, former Nigerian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, says the transformation agenda of former President Goodluck Jonathan failed because it was not centred around the people. Kolade spoke at a capacity-building workshop organised […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared Okoi Obono-Obla, former chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), wanted. The anti-graft agency said it took […]
Nigerian banks proposed to telecom companies to charge customers directly for USSD services, a memo seen by TheCable has revealed. This seems to contradict the public denial by bank CEOs on Monday. They said the […]
The Buhari government claimed to have embarked on expansionary budgets, despite adverse economic conditions, as a way of spurring development and economic growth. Indeed, between 2015 and 2018, the government’s actually-implemented budget size was N23.38 […]
On November 15, 1884, 14 mainly European countries gathered in Berlin for a meeting which lasted to February 26, 1885. The aim of that conference was to split the continent of Africa and share it […]
An age-long adage acknowledges the fact that some men are born great, many achieved greatness while some had greatness trusted on them. Interestingly, any keen reader of his enviable story in the last five decades […]
A peep into the history of attempts seeking regulation of non-profitable organizations (NPOs) in Nigeria will reveal that no bill has ever received the level of knocks like the NGO Bill sponsored by late Honorable […]
The federal public service system witnessed two important celebrations within one week recently, namely the 2019 Civil Service Week and Nigeria’s 59th Independence Day anniversary. The 2019 Civil Service Week was a belated marking of […]
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