The institutional identity of Nigeria’s national assembly is on the decline. This is exemplified by the recent decision by the country’s business community to go to court against claims of legislative abuses. Chineme Okafor in the context of this and some others, writes, questioning what the parliament is really about Nigeria chose to go with presidential democracy…
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government will do away with petroleum subsidy by June 2023. Ahmed said this on Tuesday in Abuja during a press conference to mark the end of the 28th National Economic Summit. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that fuel subsidy gulped N2.565tn between…
PALM BEACH, Fla. – Former President Donald Trump announced that he is running for the 2024 Republican nomination for president, seeking to stage a dramatic return to the White House after having lost his bid for re-election to Joe Biden in 2020. Trump, a Republican and the leader of the “Make America Great Again” movement, announced his…
Major concerns that should be on the minds of the majority of citizens in the run-up to the 2023 general elections are who should represent us the people and ensure our development by default. We must put our feelings aside and learn more about how to shape our default system. Since Nigeria’s default system is…
TEXT OF PRESS BRIEFING ON THE TRANSFER OF MT HEROIC IDUN FROM EQUATORIAL GUINEA TO NIGERIA – November 15, 2022 1. You may recall that on Friday 19 August 2022 the Naval Headquarters briefed the Press on the arrest of Motor Tanker HEROIC IDUN by the Equatorial Guinean Navy. It was mentioned that the Very…
Delta Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, said his administration has accessed N30 billion out of the N150 billion that it applied for from a financial institution under the ‘Bridging Finance’ facility. Okowa disclosed this while answering questions from journalists shortly after inspecting the Koka flyover and Interchange,…
The picture of a Nigerian who went to a bank to deposit $500,000 (N220 million) has caused a stir on social media .The unidentified man allegedly took the money to the bank as CBN made moves to redesign the naira. . Rumours of the US purportedly saying it would reject certain denominations of dollars are…
Convicted international fraudster, Ramon Abbas, alias Hushpuppi, will be spending the next few years of his life in confinement at a new ‘home’ in New Jersey in the United States. While sentencing the self-confessed fraudster to 11 years in jail on 7 November, the US district court for the Central District of California recommended him…
A middle-aged woman, Sadiya who is married to one Ibrahim Yunusa Bature, has been rescued by her mother after her husband detained her in his house for one year without food. Sadiya, who resides in Nguru town in Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria, is a mother of four children and an indigene of Kano State. According to…
It was another sad moment in the anals of Nigerian track and field after five athletes were convicted for money laundering in the United States of America. In a judgement delivered on November 10 in the Southern District of Mississippi, the five collegiate athletes, Aniekeme Etim, Raymond Ekevwo, Toluwani Adebakin, Mercy Abire and Emmanuel Ineh, were convicted before U.S….