N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem
By MAHMUD JAFAR The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once […]
The return of Diezani
SOME people love to call her the female oil Sheikh of Nigeria. Others see her first coming as the first female oil or petroleum minister of Nigeria in decades some 40 years ago.
Boko Haram means terror (2)
WHAT has Western education got to do with killing policemen on the beat or bombing churches and pepper soup joints? They are not true Muslims.
Ore road and the task before Onolememen
IT is difficult to tell what must have kept Ore end of the Lagos-Benin expressway undone up till this time. It is one riddle which may require more than mere exertion to determine.
Abia and the slain police officer
THE event of July 19 in Abia State where a police officer, Corporal Umoru Mohammed attached to Government House Umuahia allegedly shot his colleague, Corporal Clement Amachi to death, calls for serious concern, thorough investigation and total overhauling of the country’s security apparati, especially the Police.
Boko Haram means terror
THERE is no let-off to the mindless and incessant attacks on innocent citizens by Boko Haram, a faceless group of blood-thirsty sadists marauding as new day Jihadists.
