Transparency Group Flays Delta Communities’ Protest At NASS Over Oil Blocks
A Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Transparency & Equity Initiative (NDTEI) has described the politicians that led five oil producing communities in Delta State in a protest at the…
U.S. Pledges More Support for INEC Towards 2015
The United States government has pledged to step up support for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) towards ensuring the success of the 2015 general election. This pledge was made…
Oil Communities Implicate Petroleum Minister, Shell in N59tr Deal
Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke collaborated with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Limited in a N58.9trn illicit oil deal, members of five oil-producing communities in Delta State claimed on Friday.…
NJC Suspends Justice Talba over Pension Scam Judgment
For awarding an “unreasonable” sentence to John Yakubu Yusufu who confessed to complicity in the Police Pension Fund scam, Justice Abubakar Talba of the Abuja High Court has been suspended…
2015 and Jonathan’s Ostrich game
Uche Igwe Ostriches are the largest, flightless living species of birds that are found in Africa. They weigh from 63 – 145 kilograms and are 6 – 9 ft tall.…
UBA, Other Banks Syndicate $3billion Medium Term Facilities for MTN.
United Bank for Africa (UBA Plc), One of Africa’s leading financial institutions, along with a consortium of local and international banks, Tuesday signed a $3 billion (N470b) loan agreement with…
The Cost of Governance: Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency
In December last year, the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) asked the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to justify the N5.7bn budget for overheads and personnel…
Achebe: Where Are The Igbo?
When Albert Chinualumogu Achebe departed this sinful world on the 21st of March 2013, not many mourned simply because his was a life well spent. When a man of the…
Victims of Post-2011 Election Violence to Receive N5.7bn
The Federal Government has announced approval for the release of the sum of N5,747,694,780.00 for disbursement to people who lost their means of livelihood as well as places of worship…
The “fake universities” syndrome- Chido Onumah
Last July, shortly after the horrific Dana Air crash that killed over a hundred Nigerians, I did a piece titled “Murder Incorporated”. The thrust of the piece was that the…