From the Editor By the time President Muhammadu Buhari presented the budget proposal for 2017 last Tuesday; the event though of national interest competed with other issues. To start with, like a rattle snake, the spectacle of protesting Super Falcons, who were left in the lurch after winning a continental tournament for the eighth…
Buhari Raises Hope On Economy
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the current economic recession will abate in the coming year. A press release signed by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media (details here presented) stated that the government was “working hard” to ensure that “the external factors that partly contributed to push our economy into…
Boko Haram: The Unending Nightmare
As we prepared to go to press last Friday, news filtered in that Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria had recorded yet another tragedy. The dreaded Boko Haram sect had engineered a twin-blast that left a number of people dead. It was hard to put the casualty figure together immediately, because the assault was at a market…
Nana Akufo Addo Of NPP Wins Ghana’s 2016 Presidential Election
It is his third attempt and the former foreign minister enjoys popular support and is credited with vast experience in public service.
The Hard Way Out Of Recession
The federal government faces an uphill task to pull the economy out of recession as the third quarter gross domestic product growth rate gives a faint hope of quick recovery When the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, announced its report of the gross domestic product, GDP, growth rate for the second quarter of 2016, which…
Emefiele Under the Gun
Much uncertainty grips the Central Bank of Nigeria as the Presidency probes alleged irregularities in the audited financial statement of the bank for the 2015 financial year, — even in the midst of the institution’s curious foreign exchange transactions The love of money, the good book says, is the root of all evil. And so…
Ondo Election: Akeredolu Of APC Declared Winner
Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of All Progressive Party, APC as emerge the keenly contested election in Ondo state. Announcing the result at INEC collation centre on Sunday, Abdulganiu Ambali VC Unilorin said APC pulled 244,842, while PDP had 150,380, AD score 126,889. Meanwhile resident of Owo and other APC supporter are jubilating across the State. While expressing…
The Odds Against Buhari’s $30 Billion Loan
President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest to secure about N9.12 trillion foreign loans, required by his administration for infrastructural development, to get the country out of recession may surfer a setback due to political rivalry and failure of the government to gain the confidence of the people The feeling within the Presidential Villa last week was…
Why Buhari Needs Help
President Muhammadu Buhari faces an uphill climb to 2019 with many variables in disarray in his party and the country Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and…
ONDO: Supreme Court Gives Hope And Fear
The Supreme Court earlier today ruled that the Court of Appeal panel sitting on the crisis within the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP in Ondo State should go ahead to give a verdict in the matter. Supreme Court justices led by Walter Onoghene, acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, gave the ruling. In it the apex…
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