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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has written to the Chinese Government seeking the stoppage of the $2 billion loan being sought by the Federal Government of Nigeria. President Buhari’s visit to China this week was to discuss the development of the country’s infrastructure, including a $2 billion loan for railway projects. But Fayose said […]

This reflection is a continuation of my last week’s piece on how to re-engineer our politics to make it less anarchic and more oriented towards nation-building. As I argued, there is pervasive fear that the ethnic group/region that wins power at the centre will use it to privilege its in-group or to disadvantage the others. […]

As Nigeria grapples with a crisis of leadership, it is quite disheartening that almost a year after taking office, the Buhari-led APC government, is yet to make a dent in resolving the insecurity, epileptic power, acute fuel scarcity, mass unemployment, poverty and other daunting challenges facing the nation. Their modus operandi of making excuses and […]

No doubt, since1999 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo established the two anti-graft agencies in the country, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic anf Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), impunity in government has been reduced. To an extent, it has brought sanity and due process to government. Many have been […]

The 36 states of Nigeria as well as the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja are heavily indebted to banks to the tune of N12.9 trillion and this is just for the 2015 fiscal period. The revelation was made Wednesday night by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the huge fund may have been borrowed to […]

Global human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday called on the federal government to ensure the investigation and prosecution of army officials involved in the killing and secret burial of 347 Shi’ite Muslims in Kaduna late last year. The bloody clash which left more 300 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise […]

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, wife of the late Biafra warlord, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, is not taking it lightly with Ms Kemi Olunloyo, a social media activist and daughter of a former politician in the western part of Nigeria. Bianca on Wednesday took Kemi to the cleaners calling her mental health should be checked. Kemi’s sin was […]

The Senate on Wednesday asked its Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream), Finance and Appropriation to immediately commence the investigation of joint venture cash calls by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation.  The Senate gave the directive after expressing concern over an allegation that the NNPC had been violating rules governing its joint venture cash […]

‎Former Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, has urged the executive and legislative arms of government to avoid politicking with the Calabar-Lagos rail project, noting that President Muhammadu Buhari should be encouraged to develop the Niger Delta region. Ita-Giwa, in a statement released on Wednesday, noted that the controversy over the project […]

The Federal Government will require a total sum of $16bn (N3.15tn) in the next five years to address the challenges of infrastructure in the transport sector. The Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Aminu Dikko, gave the figure on Wednesday in Abuja during a capacity building programme for officials in the Ministry of Transport. Giving […]

    Just a day before the world marks the second year anniversary of the abduction of 276 girls kidnapped from the Chibok Secondary School in Borno State on 14th April 2014, global news channel, CNN has published a video showing the girls alive. The video is said to have been recorded by terrorist group, […]

Experts have expressed fear about the new agreement signed by Nigeria to include China’s currency, Yuan in its foreign reserves. While they envisage many opportunities as result of the agreement, they hold several reservations. One reason for this is because China is investing in US treasury and are the largest purchaser of US treasury. They […]