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AfDB impacts in Africa endorse Adesina’s second-term bid as president

By Theophilus Abbah July 17, 2020 165 0

By Theophilus Abbah The impact of Dr Akinwumi Adesina’s presidency at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in the last five years could be felt and touched in many parts of Africa. They speak eloquently in favour of his re-election as president of the development bank, in spite of opposition from the United States. At an […]Continue Reading

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The Cost of Destroying Ibrahim Magu

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 16, 2020 146 0

By Muni Williams On Monday, July 6, 2020, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, a police commissioner, was finally arrested on the streets of Abuja, the Federal Capital of Nigeria. He was said to have been bundled unprepared to face an administrative panel of inquiry headed by a […]Continue Reading

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Abused decree no. 34 and the demand for restructuring

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 16, 2020 154 0

By Eric Teniola Sunday, May 24th was the 54th Anniversary of the Promulgation of Decree number 34 by Major General Johnson Thomas Umanakwe Aguiyi Ironsi (3rd March 1924- 29th July 1966). Few people remembered. It was the decree that transferred all the autonomous power of the four regions then to the center. The regions then […]Continue Reading

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Magu and albatross around EFCC chairmen’s neck

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 11, 2020 170 0

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, Continue Reading

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For Soyinka at 86, and a scoop denied    

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 11, 2020 168 0

By Godwin Onyeacholem Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats, and directly opposite a quaint one-storey building on the other side of Adetokunbo Ademola Street, lay a row of bungalows finely spruced up with middle-class taste. It was in one of these […]Continue Reading

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Peculiar mode of development of Korea

By Theophilus Abbah July 7, 2020 165 0

The international community is showing special interest in the mode of development peculiar to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has followed the road of its choice without a single mistake and failure for over 70 years. When a nation takes its destiny in its own hands and carves it out by its […]Continue Reading

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Stop unprovoked attacks on Igala people

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 29, 2020 207 0

Uk’Omu Igala Organization (UIO), an umbrella organization for all socio-cultural groups in Kogi East, has called for a halt to what it called ‘unprovoked attacks on the Igala kingdom’ over a court ruling that affirmed Igala ownership of Ajaokuta, Lokoja, and Koton-Karfe. In a statement signed by Comptroller Abdul Amade (rtd), the National Leader of […]Continue Reading

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In praise of Marxism

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 26, 2020 153 0

By Edwin Madunagu One of the earliest objections we encountered from our opponents when we entered the organized Marxist political activism in the early post-Civil War years was the one built around the thesis that Marxism, our ideology, was alien to Africa and to Nigeria in particular. We soon realized that this objection was not […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s indebtedness to Igala Kingdom

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 13, 2020 141 0

By Theophilus Abbah, PhD The Federal High Court in Lokoja set tongues wagging, dogs barking and goat bleating when on June 2, 2020, after examining incontrovertible evidence, the court recited the contents of Nigeria’s history to declare that the country is indebted to ancient Igala Kingdom. That debt in cowries, now to be paid in […]Continue Reading

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The Undying Legacy of Odua, By Eric Teniola

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 12, 2020 161 0

The South West governors have reconstituted the board of directors of Odua Company Limited. The new board is headed by Dr, Lawrence Olusegun Aina (65), past President of West Africa Bankers Association and former President of Otan-Ayegbaju Development Association in Osun state. Other members of the new board are Chief Segun Ojo, a former Commissioner […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: How to be security conscious

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 10, 2020 164 0

The year, 2020, has come with unexpected hardship in Nigeria. As a result of Covid-19, many businesses have been shut down, many workers have lost their jobs, even artisans are finding it difficult to put  meals on their table. Government’s palliatives are on the pages of newspapers or in the air waves.  No adequate provision […]Continue Reading

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Former US AfDB Director declares support for Adesina

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 8, 2020 147 0

A former U.S Executive Director to the African Development Bank, (AfDB), Dr. Mima Nedelcovych, has expressed support to the embattled President Akinwumi Adesina. Dr. Nedelcovych said that Dr Adesina has stepped up when most needed for an African institution to lead the way in the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. On the issue of the […]Continue Reading