Tinubu’s Figures, Atiku’s Counter: Let the 2027 debate begin, by Emmanuel Aziken
There was something remarkable about the political exchange that followed President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day address on Thursday. It was not merely the sharpness of the disagreement. It was the speed. Within hours of the President presenting his economic record and declaring that Nigeria had reached a turning point, Atiku Abubakar was before the country […]
Badamasi, stepping out…, by Obi Nwakanma
My youth was impacted by the years when Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was at the helm of affairs in Nigeria. I was admitted to the university the very year he led a counter-coup against the fumbling administration of the other coup plotter, Muhammadu Buhari. Both men had disrupted what I still think of as a happy childhood, […]
Prepare for the Lord’s visitation, by Funmi Komolafe
Brethren, we are welcome to the month of the Trinity. Why? It’s because the Trinity is the anchor of Christianity. We recognize, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. God in three Personalities. When we call upon the hosts of Heaven, we are calling on the Trinity, God the Father, God the […]
Tinubu and his home-girl problem, by Emmanuel Aziken
Associates and praise-singers of President Bola Tinubu who think that the emerging crisis in the Lagos State House of Assembly is no threat to his 26-year dominion over Lagos should better rethink. Though it now appears as a storm in a teacup, the potential for escalation is very visible. Significantly, this threat to Tinubu is not coming […]
Boko Haram Saga: Connecting the dots, by Muyiwa Adetiba
‘A witch chanted yesterday and a child dies today; who does not know that the witch that chanted was responsible for the death of the child’ is a rough translation of a Yoruba adage. In other words, there should be a connection between a chanting witch and a dead child. This popular adage came to […]
Pencom slams N14bn fine on 911 employers for late pension remittance
By Rosemary Iwunze National Pension Commission, PenCom, said it imposed N14.3 billion fine on 911 employers for late remittance pension contributions. The Commission disclosed this in its latest report, adding that it also recovered N13.83 billion as outstanding pension contributions from the employers. It will be recalled that Section 92(2) of the Pension Reform Act, PRA […]
