Is Rivers State Wike’s Cattle Ranch? By Ugoji Egbujo
Wike is boastful. The temptation is to take his claims with a pinch of salt. But unlike other loud and garrulous politicians, friends and foes alike say it is perilous to ignore Wike’s rants, even when he sounds inebriated. Who would have believed he was bred by a pastor? He is brash and ferocious. And […]
Standards are dead: Nigeria and the Fakery Epidemic, by Ugoji Egbujo
Good building materials are gone. Everything is now fake—almost everything. The chronic decline took an acute turn after the COVID epidemic. A post-COVID nosedive. The naira started to plummet, prices soared. Surging costs of basic food began to drown the poor. People could no longer make it, so manufacturers started to fake it. Perhaps to stay […]
FG secures over $10bn external loans in 2 yrs
…Records $5bn disbursement By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The federal government has secured External Loans worth over $10 billion in the last two years. Data obtained from the Debt Management Office, DMO indicated, however, that disbursement stood at $5 billion, about half of the secured loans. The loans were contracted from various multilateral organisations, regional financial […]
Venezuela wants peace, but will fight US if invaded – Ambassador Padilla, by Owei Lakemfa
The Americas tilted towards war this week as the United States, US, on Monday September 15, 2025 and the next day, attacked and destroyed two boats it said are Venezuelan. The attacks in which an unspecific number of people were killed, followed a similar US announcement on September 1, 2025 that it blasted a Venezuelan boat […]
N330 billion: On the march again with cash transfers, by Adekunle Adekoya
THE media was awash with reports earlier in the week that the Federal Government has paid out the sum of N330 billion in cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households in the country through the National Social Safety-net Coordinating Office. This development was made known to Nigerians by no less a person than the chief manager of […]
Useni’s fight for London house from the grave shames us, by Azu Ishiekwene
In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear to be their daily work, made the difference. The first was Ibrahim Sani, a superintendent of police at the Force Intelligence Department of the Nigeria Police […]
