2027: Non-release of N371bn to INEC threatens polls
With 111 days to the January 16, 2027 presidential and National Assembly elections, concerns are mounting over the non-release of the balance of about N371 billion of the N873.78 billion budget projected for the polls, with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, warning that sustained funding is critical to effective planning, logistics and security.
43 years after, Ahmadu Bello lives on
“Northern Nigeria is a large and heavily populated country, full of vitality and promise. In such a large country there is inevitably a great deal of diversity, but in this diversity, as in your great country, lies our strength.
Will Talakawa lead to capitalist revolution in Jigawa?
Officially, the programme is called State Grant to Low Income Entrepreneurs. It is not charity, it is not patronage, it is not a case of anybody pitying anybody. It is neither the Villagisation in Julius Nyerere’s ujamaa nor Stalin’s Collectivization in Soviet Communism.
Akpabio: Re-inventing the spirit of Ibibio unity
The Ibibio nationality recently invited Nigerians to celebrate the mandate they freely gave to Chief Godswill Akpabio in May 2007 to govern Akwa Ibom State.
Post Amnesty: Proffering ways to end a struggle
LAST Tuesday, immediate past Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, was guest lecturer at the inaugural Independence Anniversary Lecture organised by Business Hallmark Newspapers.
Andy Uba’s final battle for mandate
A panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu is expected to lay to rest today the long-drawn legal battle by Dr. Emmanuel Andy Uba who is seeking the revalidation of the governorship mandate given to him by the people of Anambra State in 2007.
