Group Wants UN to Fight for Victims of Corruption in Nigeria
A rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged state parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption to take steps to review the convention in a manner…
E. K. Clark and the season of wolves
Editor:That Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark is an enigma is an understatement. That many Nigerians are aware of his true pedigree and launch-pad is an overstatement. A scion of the Clark…
Tanzania commends Dangote for new cement plant
Excited at the siting and potential economic benefits of a new cement plant to his country, Prime Minister of Tanzania, Mizengo Pinda has commended the President/Chief Executive of Dangote Group,…
Mr Fix It’s Solution to 2015 Elections: Who is Afraid of the Primaries?
The full implication of the recently truncated Nigerian Governor’s Forum election result was not lost on the powers that be even though many less politically inclined Nigerians were unable to…
Nigeria’s Big Problem With Little…
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes There are very little things,…
Editorial: Jonathan and Illicit Financial Flows
It was a damning self-appraisal of Nigeria when President Goodluck Jonathan received the United Nations’ High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, at State House recently. The president…
ACN Slams Jonathan for backing Defeated NGF Faction
For endorsing the defeated faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) chaired by Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed President Goodluck Jonathan, calling…
Aliko Dangote Now Worth More Than $20bn — Forbes
Nigerian billionaire businessman and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has scored another first with the announcement by Forbes that he is now worth $20bn while the stock value of his…
Jonathan Won’t Probe Obasanjo’s Administration, Says Presidency
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has no intention of probing the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Presidency said on Saturday night There have been insinuations that President Jonathan may…
A Season of Midterm Reports: Where are the States?
For the first time since the return to civil rule in 1999, a properly documented mid-term report which I will prefer to call “GEJ’s Big Green Book” was presented to…