It is in this context that one has to view the absurd claims by the DSS that massive sums of cash ranging from 2 million USD to hundreds of thousands of euros and pounds sterling were found in the homes of all the judges that were arrested in the early hours of saturday morning.

Moving forward, Wike also acquired 4.1 hectares of land at the Port Harcourt GRA for the construction of suitable residential quarters for judges in the state. This is aside other perks of office the Wike administration has approved for judicial officers in the state

The pertinent question here is: Why is an accusation of waste of scarce public resources so significant when it comes to governance? As a pastor, I will say it is because there are parallels to draw even from the Bible

Having just successfully defended Edo , despite PDP strong push for the state, it’s time APC goes on the offensive in the neighbouring Delta State. APC national leadership must now prioritise Delta as one of the states it can win in 2019

The present trials of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the colossus of the Southwest is not surprising to those who have vision. I saw it coming and that was why over two years ago, precisely on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, I wrote a back page op-ed on ThisDay newspaper titled ‘From Battleground to Common Ground’ and in that piece, I said inter alia as follows:

Professor John Paden, President Muhammadu Buhari’s official biographer, is a man that is very comfortable with distorting the truth and telling lies. He is also a man that has been doing so for virtually all his adult life.

AFTER several years of unsuccessful move by successive administrations to switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has at last edged the country into the league of digital world.

THE struggle for the development of the Niger Delta Region has remained a staple subject for heated controversy. Sadly, the history of the development of the region has been riddled with bitter struggle pioneered by nationalists of the Niger Delta who fought for Nigeria’s independence alongside their counterparts in other parts of the nation. That was an era before the discovery of crude oil. Their principal objective was to get a fair deal in terms of development.

IT was a rumour within government circle until the Nigerian-richest-African; Aliko Dangote, made it public, to wit – selling of Nigeria’s national assets as the quickest and surest way of coming out of this economic national disaster called recession. Following the stand of Dangote on the sales of the nation’s vital assets, was the most […]

Fellow citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, sometime in a 1783 House of Commons Speech, William Pitt the Younger, stated albeit instructively and rightly that “necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”