Mambilla: APC’s claims long on propaganda, short on evidence – Paul Ibe
By Paul Ibe The APC Presidential Campaign Council wants Nigerians to believe that the Mambilla arbitration delivered a corruption verdict against Atiku Abubakar. It did not. The tribunal examined a $500,000 transfer made on 30 January 2003 by Sunrise promoter Leno Adesanya, through China Castle Investments Limited, to the US bank account of Jennifer Douglas, […]
Minimum wage and imperatives of financial intelligence
IT is no longer news that public servants in Lagos State have started receiving the new minimum wage. With this development, Lagos has scored yet another first as the first state to pay the new wage in the country.
Good talk, Aisha Buhari; but who will bell the cat?
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable — Adam Smith (1723-1790), Scottish economist and philosopher
Ufot Ekaette: Garlands for a rare patriot
By Soni Daniel I can remember just like yesterday when the late Ufot Ekaette, sat me down in his Asokoro District home in Abuja on January 8, 2009, just a few days after my return from City University of London, where I had been sponsored by the Associated Press to pursue my second Master’s degree […]
Why Nigerians should avoid use of ‘Tissue
By Prince Okafor A medical expert has linked frequent use of tissue paper popularly known as toilet roll to one of the root cause of cervical cancer in women. Disclosing this during the 2019 Beauty West Africa Exhibition in Lagos, an Indonesian traditional health specialist, at Tirta Ayu Spa, recalled that toilet tissue was a […]
Wike: A Prophet honoured by his people
By Aliu Shuaib With Nigeria’s zero-sum approach to politicking where the contest is fiercely adversarial and the winner rides triumphant, it is difficult to find political opponents being charitable towards each other. Since 2015 when the PDP was swept from power at the centre, relations between the key actors of both parties have been far […]
