Efforts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to extract information from Ojogbame Adegbe the aide-de-camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan, relating to the N10 billion allegedly moved from the Office of the National Security Adviser for political purposes, may have met a brickwall.

In what is becoming increasingly clearer, a cocktail of bad choices, incoherent policies made worse by instability in the markets, as well as a fastidious clinging to antiquated ideas, the fate of the Naira hangs in the balance as it continues its downward slide. This report will show why the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s misplaced belief that hope is best served for dinner, at a time when there may be no one at the table because the prognoses for the Naira and the economy, do not inspire confidence and growth.

Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has asked the Federal Government to prosecute the on-going anti-corruption war “within the ambit of the law, and rule of law must, at all times, be given primacy.”

ENUGU – The Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and former Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Coomassie, has said that agitations for a new Republic of Biafra by Igbo youths were based on “long emotions,” which were “short on logic.”

THE 60th birthday of the senator representing Bayelsa East in the Senate, Sen Ben Muray-Bruce, was a platform to task Nigerians on the imperative of patriotism to resolve the challenges bedeviling the country.

A boy wanted a new pair of shoes. His mother told him to ask his father for the money. So he approached him cagily. “Daddy, I need a new pair of shoes,” he said. “Could you please give me the money to get them?”

These cases went to the Supreme Court until the fourth time in 2015 when God agreed that I will be President.” Clearly, President Buhari was expressing his frustration with the Nigerian judiciary, which has increasingly come under critical fire for surreptitiously allowing hideously corrupt top public officials to escape justice. That said, the virus of corruption has penetrated every aspect of our national life to a debilitating degree, such that only a sustained moral reorientation led by a more scientifically minded improved Nigerian equivalent of Mahatma Gandhi can reverse the situation, in the long run.

With oil not able to sustain the economy anymore, attention is shifting to agriculture which, decades ago, was the propeller of the then buoyant economy. This is one of the reasons the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, made a foray into productive agriculture. Last week, he launched his Dangote Rice Outgrowers Scheme in Hadejia, Kafin-Hausa local government area of Jigawa State.

CHAIRMAN of Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, says the Commission has received 942 petitions on corruption matters.

SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Tuesday, February 16, 2016 must be an unforgettable day for officials of the Edo State Transport Management Agency (EDSTMA) and the state Ministry of Transport  under the  Commissioner, Isimeme Irogbe, when Governor Adams Oshiomhole stormed  their premises. The action flowed  from the outcry from members of the public who accused the […]