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The Federal Government has slammed the PDP for once again asking ‎President Muhammadu Buhari to quit. The FG described the former ruling party a shameless irritant which is bent on distracting the government from ‎its rescue mission and returning the country to ”Egypt”. ”We are on a rescue mission to resuscitate Nigeria after the PDP left it […]Read More

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema wanted for allegedly embezzling state funds running into billions of naira. The commission in a statement signed by its head of media and publicity, Wilson Uwajuren, said “The public is hereby notified that Ibrahim Shema, a former Governor […]

The four companies accused of money laundering, alongside a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to former President Jonathan, Waripamo Dudafa, and two others have pleaded guilty to the offence. The companies submitted a guilty plea for conspiring with Dudafa and the two others to launder a sum of  $15, 591,700 before a Federal High […]

On his emergence as Nigeria’s President last year, President Muhammadu Buhari was faced with two broad choices; Continue the larcenous state of corruption he met when he cane in or cap the corruption well head and move the country away from the hugely predatory state through deliberate actions and policies that will cleanse the badly […]

The Edo State gubernatorial election may have been postponed, but the untoward consequence of INEC’s decision is again giving Nigerian democracy a bad name. After repeatedly restating its readiness to hold the election, INEC shifted the vote to September 28, citing security advice from the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services (DSS), which […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and lawmakers elected on the platform of the opposition party, have chided  President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments that he inherited nothing from the PDP administrations of former president’s Olusegun Obasanjo, late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua and Dr Goodluck Jonathan.  Buhari had accused his predecessors who ruled Nigeria between […]

Ministers and Heads of relevant Federal Government Departments and Agencies will on Thursday converge at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, to present and discuss priority areas of the 2017 Budget. It is part of a scheduled arrangement by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning to set the right parameters and fine-tune […]

Nigerians distrust their government. It is reason why all the past image or re-orientation campaigns launched by previous governments failed and why the latest #Changebeginswithme project may not fly. I should know. I was part of the Rebranding Nigeria Campaign launched by the former Minister of Information and Communication Dora Akunyili in 2009 and the […]

Fani-Kayode a former  Aviation Minister  has revealed that the five plane crashes that occurred between 2005 and 2006 were man-made and planned and that the victims were sacrifices. Fani-Kayode disclosed this in a Facebook post where the said: ”Most of our leaders are not human. They are what Mr. David Icke, the famous British historian […]

Nigerians know too well, that sinking feeling when the standard household shopping list cannot be covered by the regular budget. The options are either to cut down or do without some basic items, or alternatively, make do with less preferred but cheaper substitutes. Even though the impact of inflation has no social boundaries, it is […]

Barely a week to the scheduled address of President Muhammadu Buhari at the 71st regular session of the United Nation’s General Assembly in New York, the president has been accused of complacency on the issue of the Chibok girls.  An Abuja-based rights advocacy group, Opinion Nigeria made the accusation in a letter to the global […]

A seemingly responsible fiscal plan will become unimplementable, in the modern era, if the underlying monetary indices are out of sync with budget projections. Conversely, the stubborn sustenance of appropriate monetary benchmarks for inflation, cost of funds and exchange rate may still rescue the performance of an otherwise bad budget.  For example, if salaries and […]