Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps
By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
Why Africa’s young people are the real winners at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards
Almost nowhere on earth is football followed as passionately as in Africa. It is loved by Africans from all walks of life across the continent.
Exposing the lies, contradictions in President Buhari’s New Year address – Reno
Nigerians woke up this New Year to listen to President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year address to the nation in which he made many promises and undertakings.
Time to give up on Buhari
Finally, the stretched debate and extensive controversy over President Buhari’s ability to lead Nigerians to the so called promised land is now over. On this, Nigerians owe Mr. President huge debt of gratitude especially for his recent guileless revelations.
The controversial $1b insurgency fund
CONTROVERSY has continued to trail the recent disclosure by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Abdulaziz Yari that state governors in the country had asked the Federal Government to withdraw $1bn from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, to fight insurgency in the North-east. The decision was recently taken at the Federal Executive Council meeting, presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
How fuel scarcity exposed the Buhari administration’s inconsistencies, contradictions and outright lies – Reno
On Friday, December 22, 2017, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, said the landing cost for petrol is ₦171.40 per litre. He further added that the government was bearing an extra cost of about ₦26.40 per liter for the product so that Nigerians could purchase the product at the government approved and regulated price of ₦145 per liter.
