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Zenith Bank CEO visits Cross Rivers Governor

By Theophilus Abbah August 13, 2019 236 0

Group Managing Director/Chief Executive, Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu; Executive Governor, Cross River State, His Excellency Prof. Ben Ayade and Executive Director, Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Dennis Olisa during the bank’s visit to the Governor to further infrastructural development partnership with the State Government at the weekend.Continue Reading

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Clinics with nothing : How millions meant for the sick are never spent

By Theophilus Abbah August 10, 2019 284 0

Healthcare in Nigeria is incredibly complicated. Large budgets are trapped on different government levels, only accessible to those who know how to work the system. The Primary Healthcare Centre in Ugbamaka-Igah village in Kogi State, Nigeria, is overgrown with grasses. The labour and patient wards as well as the other rooms of the clinic are […]Continue Reading

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5 Questions for Army over killing of police operatives

By Theophilus Abbah August 9, 2019 290 0

The word ‘waste’ erupts in the mind as one imagines the unnecessary killing of three elite police officers in Taraba State this week. As an evidence of the lack of cooperation among security agencies fighting terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery and communal violence, army personnel were those involved in the senseless shooting. In the last one […]Continue Reading

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As Audu Ogbeh Takes the Back Seat

By Theophilus Abbah August 9, 2019 297 Post a comment

By Eric Teniola When President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, submitted his list of Ministers to the Senate on July 23, the name of Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh (72) was missing. He was one of the few ministers who was not re-nominated by the President. And this led to a conclusion that, perhaps, the public service career […]Continue Reading

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Sowore, DSS and language of ‘revolution’

By Theophilus Abbah August 5, 2019 186 0

At the centre of Department of State Security (DSS’) arrest of Mr. Omowole Sowore at the weekend over the protest #RevolutionNow is the meaning of the noun ‘Revolution.’ Erudite spokesman of DSS, Peter Afunanya, justified the security agency’s ‘preventive measure’ by not just defining ‘revolution,’ but provided extended meaning of the word to include: “… […]Continue Reading

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Vultures of steel: Ajaokuta where corruption is the system

By Theophilus Abbah July 13, 2019 487 0

Theophilus Abbah If corruption was an issue of the presence of individual ‘rotten apples’ in the state, it would suffice to arrest such individuals to cleanse the system. That it is not so proves the story of the steel plant of Ajaokuta, Nigeria, where corruption has been the system for decades. With a new legislature […]Continue Reading

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Federalism, local government autonomy and the crisis of identity in Nigeria

By Theophilus Abbah June 27, 2019 255 0

By Austin Emaduku Local government councils, counties, prefectures, cities, boroughs, municipalities, etc., the world over, are regarded as vehicles of grassroots development because of their closeness to the people. It is for this reason that it is often argued that they be granted enough financial strength and space to operate. However, the question of municipal […]Continue Reading

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Their African way: The business associates who help the kleptocrats (Transnational Investigation)

By Theophilus Abbah June 27, 2019 194 0

By African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM team: David Dembélé (Mali), Theophilus Abbah (Nigeria), Charles Mafa and John Mukela (Zambia), T. Kaiwonda Gaye* (Liberia), Estacio Valoi (Mozambique), Purity Mukami with Africa Uncensored, Kenya “You must be very careful,” says the lawyer over the phone to the local reporter. “This is a dark and sensitive dossier. Continue Reading

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Dapsy: father of modern investigative journalism in Nigeria

By Theophilus Abbah June 27, 2019 422 0

Title: Testimony to Courage: Essays in Honour of Dapo Olorunyomi Editors: Chido Onumah and Frederick Adetiba Publishers: Kappa and Omega Company, Abuja Pages: 404 Reviewer: Theophilus Abbah, PhD It has been sluggish strides, like baby-steps. That is the journey of newspapering in Nigeria from being a church bulletin, established in 1859 by Reverend Henry Townsend, […]Continue Reading

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Boko Haram in Buhari’s speeches in 2015 and 2019 [Data and content analysis]

By Theophilus Abbah June 27, 2019 228 Post a comment

Presidential inaugural speeches give heads of states with a periodic opportunity to renew their social contract with their people. Carefully crafted and pored upon for, perhaps, weeks before their delivery, such political rhetoric are expected to leave sweet tastes in the mouth of their audience. Quotable quotes, take-away promises, renewal of hope, paradigm shifts and Continue Reading

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What Obasanjo really said

By Theophilus Abbah May 22, 2019 269 0

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo may be shocked at the reaction to his recent speech at the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) in Delta State.  The Federal Government even tagged it ‘divisive.’ Of the 9,823-word-long lecture, which borders of the need to harness and develop the natural and human resources of Nigeria for its development, a […]Continue Reading

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Kashim Shettima’s Mega Legacy of Hope

By Theophilus Abbah May 14, 2019 304 0

Some bequeath concrete accomplishments; others bequeath abstract statistics. Some bequeath reasons for serving modestly, in fulfilment of their covenant with their people; others bequeath excuses for failing to serve, breaching the trust of their people. Some bequeath legacies of hope; others bequeath legacies of hopelessness. So, is the tradition of elective and public Continue Reading