CRIME
The Enemies Within By Muiywa Adetiba
A manufacturing company did the unusual when it sent emails to its staff to tell them that the enemy of the company had been captured. Those who were interested in its identity should proceed to […]
Issues/Policy
Issues/Policy
A Matter For The Police By Bisi Lawrence
Pa Lot, a venerable pastor, parliamentarian and politician of the First Republic, spoke about the menace of the Fulani herdsmen in jocular terms, when I met him some decades ago in Jos. He was well […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari To Devalue Naira 290 To Dollar | Vanguard
Strong indication have emerged Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari will soon devalue Naira according to http://saharareporters.com/ But speaking to Vanguard Mr. Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity denied the […]
Issues/Policy
Impressionistic Corruption and Niger Delta Howitzers By Sonny Atumah
Last week a group in the name of Niger Delta Avengers blew up the Chevron oil platform, signaling the return of militias. They made some demands, including the blighted Niger Delta oil spills that require […]
Issues/Policy
We All Know Nigeria Is ‘Fantastically Corrupt’ | TheCable
“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on tape telling […]
Economy
Buhari’s Inconsistent Management Of Fuel Subsidies Leaves Loyalists Confused By Frisky Larr
An unnecessary own-goal indeed. Who doesn’t remember Muhammadu Buhari’s infamous interview before he became President? He talked elaborately about fuel subsidies, stressing very clearly that the measure was a fraud and that he hardly understood […]
Issues/Policy
Ibori’s Ally, 3 Top Oil Operators Linked To Diezani’s $115 Million Election Bribe | PremiumTimes
Three major players in Nigeria’s oil sector – Kola Adesina, Onajite Okoloko and Abubakar Tambuwal – have been linked to the $115 million (N63 billion) allegedly distributed as bribes to some officials of the Independent […]
Issues/Policy
Nigeria: A negotiable entity By Robert Obioha
When renowned novelist, Chinua Achebe, diagnosed that the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership, most Nigerians believed him. Only a few Nigerians disagreed with him. But the failure of every […]
Issues/Policy
HIGH COST OF MARKET FIRES ……. THISDAY
It is time to enforce building codes and regulations The recent fire incident at the Sabon Gari Market in Kano reportedly was the worst market fire disaster in Nigeria, taking down with it some 3,800 […]
CRIME
N109m Pension Scam: Ex-Pension Accountant, Abisuga Bags 24months Jail Term
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 12, 2016 secured the conviction of Babatunde Abisuga, a former accountant of the Federal Civil Service Commission, who is being prosecuted on a 5-count charge […]
Issues/Policy
Buhari Agrees Nigeria Is Corrupt, But How Is He Tackling It? | TheGuardian
He has been in trouble for bad-mouthing his countrymen before, but Buhari, for all his faults, has a reputation for being scrupulously honest. And, speaking in London on Wednesday after the British prime minister’s embarrassing […]
Issues/Policy
Nigeria is ‘fantastically corrupt’, what’s new? By Abimbola Adelakun
What point was the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, trying to make when he responded to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, who had described Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt” and […]
Issues/Policy
Developing minds, developing nations – Part 2 By Leonard Shilgba
The reason is obvious – arbitrary billing fills their purse with ill-gotten wealth. While in other towns and villages where analogue or post-payment meters are still being used in Nigeria, DISCOS would bring in outrageous […]
Issues/Policy
The Guardian View On Corruption: David Cameron Should Look Closer To Home | TheGuardian
There are times when a manual earth-restructuring implement is best referred to as a spade, so let us speak plainly. A summit on corruption will be held on Thursday in a city that is internationally […]
Economy
Economic crisis: Saudi Arabia Fires Oil Minister | TheCable
Saudi Arabia has sacked Ali al-Naimi, its oil minister as part of a major cabinet reshuffle announced in a series of royal decrees issued by King Salman on Saturday. Naimi, who started his career in […]
Issues/Policy
Fashola and Nigeria’s power problem By Pace K. Olaparodi
It has become boring to bemoan the paltry electricity which Nigeria generates. It is also trite to state that, more than 55 years after independence, we still depend on imported generators for electricity. It grieves […]
CRIME
N2.5b bazaar: EFCC gets warrant to remand Fani-Kayode for two weeks ……. Nation
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday secured a remand warrant to detain a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in connection with the N2.5billion illegally withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria […]
Economy
Petrol To Sell For N130 Per Litre …. Vanguard
ABUJA – The Federal Government is set to commence partial deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector, allowing major and independent marketers to sell Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, at prices convenient for […]
CRIME
N4bn cash: Fani-Kayode Must Refund N840m, EFCC Insists | Vanguard
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday, questioned the spokesman of Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation for hours, asking him to return the N840 million he allegedly received for the prosecution of the Presidential election last […]
Issues/Policy
Challenges of a new minimum wage By Nelson Ekujimi
For being alive to its responsibility by making the demands for a new minimum wage based on “The National Minimum Wage Act”, which former President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law in April 2011, that has a […]