For Jim Nwobodo, it’s about a good name
For some time now, one Basil Ogbuanu, said to be a Lagos-based businessman, has been up and about dragging the name of Senator Jim Nwobodo and his wife, Patricia. At issue is a piece of land at an estate owned by the former governor of old Anambra State. I hear the matter is already in […]
Prince Abubakar Audu and his intents…
What did Abubakar Audu forget in Kogi Government House? This is a question any average Nigerian would ask of any candidate aspiring to be sworn in for a third term in any elective office, especially when such office in question rates as high as the gubernatorial platform
Of Power probes and national interest
AS revealed by some recent newspaper reports, Nigerians are to expect yet another probe of the power sector by one of the two tiers of the National Assembly, this time the House of Representatives. This new probe, if and when it happens, would be coming at the heels of the probe of the same sector by the Senate, which had commenced on September 8, 2015, but whose outcome remains indeterminate.
The politics and economics of Sanusi’s intervention
LAST week, the Emir of Kano and immediate past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, roundly criticised both the monetary policies of CBN as well as the fiscal policies of the new Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The Fifth Estate, President Buhari and the Ministerial Screening
This new fifth estate has decided that national decisions would no longer be screened on the ideologies of political parties but on the primary factor of their dream Nigeria. Any government that fails to recognize this would be taught that the people is the government and it is therefore guilty of treason.
Why Buhari can’t be tight-lipped over immunity proposal by NASS, By Kolawole Olaniyan
Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.
