What is Peter Obi looking for in Yelwata? By Rotimi Fasan
Now that he has been given a fresh invite by so-called elders of the community to visit after last week’s botched attempt, I think it is legitimate to ask what Peter Obi, the National Democratic Congress’s presidential candidate, is looking for in Yelwata, a somnolent town in Benue State, at a time when he should […]
FREE FLOAT: NB meets NGX requirement
… As Heineken increases stakeholding By Peter Egwuatu Nigerian Breweries, NB Plc, has explained that it still meets the 20% requirement of the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX, on free float of shares despite the increase in Heineken’s stake in the company. Free float, one of the pre listing requirements of the NGX, is the minimum […]
Access Bank on the right track
By Dele Sobowale “It is unthinkable that wisdom should ever be popular.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832. Access Bank Plc is perhaps the most innovative Nigerian bank in the last two years as the changes in the nation’s economic landscape have multiplied the uncertainties banks and other financial institutions face in the country today. It has diversified […]
Nigeria and the Fading Lights of Justice, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
As he settled in to deliver the judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on 2 April 2025, presiding judge, Wilfred Kpochi, felt obliged to get one ritual out of the way. Glancing left and right, he asked each of his two colleagues on the three-person tribunal to confirm that the judgment he […]
Humphrey Nwosu: Senate did not surprise me, by Tonnie Iredia
Late Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the outstanding Nigerian who led the team that conducted the June 12, 1993 presidential election recognized worldwide as the best in Nigeria’s history was buried last week. He was aged 83. AsDirector of Public Affairs and spokesperson of the Nwosu-led electoral commission, I am pained that I was unable to play […]
Great Ogboru alters predictions on Delta 2027, by Dele Sobowale
“I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood” – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Olorogun Ovedje Ogboru did one of my late friends a great favour, about eight years ago; which will never be forgotten, even if I live (God forbid) […]
