BY THEOPHILUS ABBAH Nuhu Ribadu booted out, demoted (2008). Farida Waziri sacked! (2011). Ibrahim Lamorde removed, under probe (2015). Ibrahim Magu arrested, detained, grilled (2019). With these fragmented statements and reads-on that scream from the headlines of dailies, each chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was, with bleary eyes, ingloriously booted out of the seat of fire. Were [...]
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BY IBRAHIM ADO-KURAWA Nigeria and most of the third world countries are not properly represented in global news media dominated by Western organizations. But what is the first step of eliminating this imbalance? The first step is for the Nigerian Government to provide all the necessary information and facts about Nigeria. Hence since independence the Ministry of Information has always existed [...]
BY ADEMOLA ADEDOYIN "When one is diligent on his job and he is Godly in his disposition and relationship with his fellow man, the sky is not even the limit for him. No doubt, this is a great attainment, but rest assured that, In sha Allah, greater accomplishments lie ahead" - Ademola Adedoyin, on Prof Yusuf's recent appointment as VC, Al-Hikmah [...]
BY NDIDI UWECHUE Nigeria has actually collapsed. I cannot pinpoint the exact date, but when I consider the filth, decay and squalor everywhere, the depth of social pathologies, and horrifyingly, the genocide against ethnic nationalities, together with unstopped herdsmen and Boko Haram-ISIS terrorism, I cannot truthfully call Nigeria a country. It is simply a territory, a piece of land covering an [...]
BY ADE INASA-THOMAS The way we go about celebrating sudden, short term, self serving and deceitful demonisation of CEOs of anti corruption agency (EFCC) from Ribadu to Magu says a lot about us as people that are utterly without values. We stand for nothing and we do not care about anything. We at the same time approbate and reprobate. We are [...]
BY MOSHOOD ISAH The steady decline in voter turnout in Nigeria remains a cause for concern and calls to question the nation’s 21 years of uninterrupted democracy. After six circles of general elections, citizens are yet to trust the electoral system enough to participate in it. This is rightly so because the system is yet to inspire citizens' confidence, and this [...]
Raymond Igbalode, a Nigerian Instagram celebrity better known as Hushpuppi, has continued to make the headlines after the police in Dubai busted him and his colleagues over alleged fraud amounting to N168 billion. The issue has continued to garner backlashes from majority of Nigerians across social media platforms. Such criticisms are understandable. Hushpuppi, by his action, has further denigrated Nigeria's [...]
BY DANJUMA MUSA There is absolutely no doubt, that the Kano State Government has for quite some time been spoiling for a fight with Nasir El-Rufai,the Governor of Kaduna State, over his unalloyed loyalty to Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, his long standing friend that as the last authentic Emir of Kano was a thorn in the flesh of Abdullahi Ganduje ,the Governor [...]
BY VIVIAN O. IBEH In May 2020 National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said that it would be continuing its research into the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment protocol for COVID-19 even when some journals had published some reports that caused quite a stir in the pharmaceutical industry. The medical Journal Lancet in an observational study claimed [...]
By the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Seventy years have elapsed since the bursts of gunfire of war were heard on this land. The Korean War forced by the United States inflicted painful scars and tremendous human and material losses upon the Korean people. Continuing into this moment is the [...]
As headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic storm lambaste the world economy, the outlook for Nigeria appears more cloudy for the second half of the year. The next few months are critical for the country’s fragile economic recovery and the main question is whether Nigeria will sink or swim in the coronavirus storm. On the positive side, the federal government announced the second [...]
BY ABUBAKAR BUKA KAGU It is no doubt that intra-party feuds have the potential to cause great upset. Whether these challenges may lead to sufficient fractures which can slowly snowball into electoral reverses is another matter. The simple point is that such disputes, especially when they present themselves to the general public, give the impression of dysfunctionality in the party structure [...]
BY EHI AGBEDE If Nigerians ever coalesce around a standard-bearer determined to draw a bright line between diligence to duty and a heart for the people, that person could emerge as an important force in a country with a problem the shape and size of quality leadership. Babatunde Raji Fashola might not be the most popular politician in Nigeria, but for many [...]
BY OSASU IGBINEDION Dear Queens and Kings, The wind is finally behind us. After centuries of discrimination and racial injustice, the world is now waking up to our reality as black people. As a Black woman living in the African continent, Nigeria to be specific (which is the most populous black nation in the world), I feel a little relieved that [...]
BY SAMUEL OSHO As the footage confirming the arrest of Hushpuppi storms the internet, Nigeria’s reputation plummets a hundred feet down the abyss of fraudulence reconfirming Nigeria’s perceived pole position as the world capital of swindlers. If you can’t understand why PayPal stops Nigerian residents from receiving funds via their accounts, you can now see the clog in the wheel. If you [...]
BY SYLVANUS OJEH “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” Proverbs 22.29. The above eternal words from the wisest man that ever lived in Bible times, King Solomon, ring true of Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, the Benin-born billionaire business mogul, who straddles the socio-cultural, economic and political topographies of [...]
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