Why does opposition look less ready than they were in 2023?, by Stephanie Shaakaa
With the January 16, 2027 presidential election approaching, several of prominent opposition figures are once again pursuing separate tickets.
Rest In Peace, my good friend
Sports is part of entertainment and this partly explained why he took huge interest in not only what we did on the sports desk but also in Nigerian sports.
Treason, the pot at the rainbow’s end
IT took the WALL STREET JOURNAL, WSJ, last week, to lift the lid on the murky world of payments which the Nigerian government makes to Niger Delta warlords.
WANTED URGENTLY: 160 million states
THERE was something for which we kept applauding the military juntas of those days, without the least inkling that they were destroying us softly: We could go to bed one night in State ‘A’ and wake up the following morning to find that we were in State ‘B’ – during the night, a state had been created for us!
Minister Nurudeen’s “Islamic Republic of Nigeria”
THE unsavoury consequence of Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, is rearing its ugly head.
N5,000 note as red herring!
THE Central Bank served an advance notice of the introduction of a N5,000 note as well as the redesigning of the existing currency profile; under the proposed arrangement, six of the denominations i.e. N5,000, N1,000, N500, N200, N100, N50 will remain in notes form, while N20, N10, N5, N2, N1 and 50K will circulate as coins.
