‘Ghost’ beneficiaries beneficiaries of N33/7bn cash transfer
• Doubts over whether billions in benefits reached poor Nigerians By Dele Sobowale The N33.75 billion transfer controversy, now rocking the nation, is neither new, nor did the massive fraud stop in 2026. The well-oiled and entrenched mechanisms for transferring public funds, meant for poverty alleviation, into the bottomless pockets of public servants, continues till today […]
One week in Abuja
The petrol queues were long. A brisk trade was going on everywhere by people selling petrol on the road side in kegs. Tessy, driving her Mercedes 230E, needed petrol and stopped to buy from the keg vendors. As she opened her door, one young man jumped into her car on the driver’s side, five other men were opening other doors trying to get in. Tessy had the presence of mind and luckily had actually not turned off the engine of her car. She put her foot down on the accelerator.
Issues in Supreme Court decision in Rivers governorship case, entitled: ‘A farewell to election petitions’
In this summary, I make comment on the important issues raised by the Supreme Court in that case.
That CNN’s Video of Chibok Girls
broadcaster, CNN certainly wowed its global audience with the video it exclusively obtained of Nigeria’s abducted schoolgirls that were abducted my Boko Haram terrorists on April 14, 2014 to the consternation of the entire world.
Despatch From China: What order, discipline did to China, by Femi Adesina
Like a troubadour traversing the land, we set forth at dawn, leaving Beijing for Shanghai, China’s economic nerve center.
Who’s Afraid of Buratai?
Nigerians can confidently attest to the annihilation of the Boko Haram insurgents and near complete triumph of federal troops in the war against terrorism in the North East and elsewhere in the country, since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as President and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
