A frontline contender for Kogi East Senatorial District seat, Dr Victor Adoji, is likely to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for another platform. This is due to anti-democratic activities that coloured the primary elections. Dr Adoji met with top leaders of Kogi politics yesterday in order to perfect the next plan of action after […]Continue Reading
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In 2016, the Senate Committee on Banks, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions probed how MTN, between 2006 and 2016, allegedly repatriated about $13.9billion from Nigeria after side-stepping the due process for issuing Certificates of Capital Importation (CCIs) within 24 hours of conversion. On August 29 this year, the CBN came out with the report of […]Continue Reading
Kidnappers demand N1 billion ransom Edo, Delta and Kaduna top list of most dangerous states for pastors In the last two years not less than 51 pastors and priests of various denominations and churches were kidnapped in Nigeria. Also, ransom figures put at about N1 billion was demanded from them and their loved ones. This […]Continue Reading
With youthful anxiety for the Friday excursion to Accra’s Tema Oil Refinery, I struggled out of sleep at a very odd hour. I woke up at the dark and unholy hour of 2.00am when human beings were at rest but the spirit world active with unrest. Strangely, I felt struck with an inexplicable nausea […]Continue Reading
The return of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill 2018, harmonized by the Senate and House of Representatives, by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Wednesday coincided with a session on extractive sector (mining, oil and gas) legal framework that we were taken through in Accra, Ghana on the same day. Organised by the […]Continue Reading
In the last decade I’ve been haunted by an opaque expression: ‘the oil and gas sector is opaque.’ What is opaque? What is oil and gas? The simple definition of opaque is “not transparent,” and it has synonyms like “cloudy,” “blurred,” “dirty,” “muddy,” “hazy,” etc. Is the word, opaque, not a synonym of the phrase […]Continue Reading
A socio-pragmatic linguistic analysis of the transcript of the audio of Leah Sharibu proves five things. The transcript, widely circulated in the media, read thus: “I am Leah Sharibu, the girl that was abducted in GGSS Dapchi. I am calling on the government and people of goodwill to intervene to get me out of my […]Continue Reading
As the castle of Journalism where I had been secure for two decades crashed earlier this year into bricks and rubble, exposing my life to whirlwind, tornado and tsunami, my inner eyes did not foresee another sunrise, not a sunrise on Sunday, August 26, 2018, my birthday. I could not imagine a sunrise in a […]Continue Reading
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised an alarm over arms build up in the country following the interception of Nigeria-bound arms in South Africa. A statement today by its spokesman, Mr Yekini Nabena, said the arms seizure was a red flag for security agencies to be very vigilant as the country approaches the next […]Continue Reading
The next general election is six months away. Not, government seems to have surrendered its duties to the noise of the power riddle, abandoning many issues of national importance. Below is a list of some of such issues that federal and state governments have relegated to the background in their anxiety to secure ‘the people’s […]Continue Reading
… In Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan… Terrorist organisations that harbour anti-establishment, anti-West, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic ideologies have stepped up their attacks, recording sinful successes and forcing back the hand of the clock where successes seemed to have been recorded in the last few years. In Nigeria, for instance, there have been more than five Continue Reading
The United Nations Security Council report on the state of terrorist groups in the Levant (Syria and Iraq), Middle East, Europe, Africa, South-East Asia, Central and South Asia elicited diverse reactions in Nigeria. Prominence was given to the speculation that the Federal Government parted with huge sums as ransom to secure the release of 105 […]Continue Reading