Senate Adopts $79-Per-Barrel Crude Oil Benchmark
A joint committee of the Senate and the Federal House of representatives on Tuesday adopted $79 per barrel as benchmark for crude oil in the 2013 fiscal year. The 10-man…
N32.8Bn Police Pension Scam: Dangabar Re-arrested
Esai Dangabar, one of the six accused persons being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 16 criminal count charge bordering on conspiracy and criminal breach…
Race for PDP BoT Chair: Between moderation and desperation
Since after the November 30, 2012 meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which was adjourned to January 8, 2013, for the purpose of picking…
Subsidy Thieves Kidnapped My Mother — Okonjo-Iweala
Professor Kamene Okonjo, the mother of Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala might have regained freedom from her abductors, but her daughter has…
Azazi/Yakowa Air crash, Sabotage! Who did it?
There seems to be no end to insinuations that Saturday’s helicopter crash, which killed a serving governor and a former national security adviser, was a sabotage. Fingers have pointed at…
Salute to the people`s general @ 70
Providence, that intangible concept of extraordinary omnipresence, is invariably the ultimate intruder in human affairs. Moving stealthily with the practiced skill of a stalker, it habitually sneaks into the life…
A Fool And His Money
The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner,…
Nollywood actress, Nkiru Sylvanus kidnapped
Sylvanus, who is currently serving in the administration of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State as Special Assistant on Public Affairs, was abducted in Owerri, the Imo State capital on…
Building and Equipping a Prepared Citizenry
In the first inaugural speech of President Dwight Eisenhower of the USA on January 20, 1953, as he came to the conclusion of that speech, he said those memorable and…
Punish Oil Companies for Pollution, ECOWAS Court Orders FG
Amnesty International and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have hailed Friday’s ground-breaking judgement of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ordering the Federal Government to punish oil…