Monthly Archive: March 2016

2016 BUDGET IN LIMBO 0

2016 BUDGET IN LIMBO

  PMB with-holds assent to the 2016 Appropriation Bill for lack of details.   It has been over a week since the National Assembly passed the budget, yet details of its breakdown has not...

THE EAGLES STILL SUPER? 0

THE EAGLES STILL SUPER?

  Once again, the Super Eagles failed to qualify for AFCON.    The Nigerian football is like the Nigerian political system. It rubbishes anybody no matter how good you are.   When the Super...

STILL ON ASHIWAJU’S ATTACK ON KACHIKWU 0

STILL ON ASHIWAJU’S ATTACK ON KACHIKWU

  I admire Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC’s national leader, former senator of the Federal Republic and former governor of Lagos State. I admire him for his political sagacity; I admire him for his talent...

PARK WELL, ASHIWAJU 0

PARK WELL, ASHIWAJU

  Why am I not surprised at Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 10 paragraph blasting of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu over the latter's innocuous admittance that he was not a magician?    Commenting on the lingering fuel...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH US NIGERIANS? 0

WHAT IS WRONG WITH US NIGERIANS?

Boko Haram bombs and kills people in Nigeria – silence. You scroll am pass.   An NYSC member on national assignment is shot dead by unknown gun men – silence. You scroll am pass. ...

WHO KILLED SAMUEL DUMEBI OKONTA? – by Frank Ofili 0

WHO KILLED SAMUEL DUMEBI OKONTA? – by Frank Ofili

  He was called to serve his fatherland as an electoral officer in the Rivers State House of Assembly and National Assembly re-run elections.    On 19th March 2016, he set out to answer...

STORM OVER NOTHING 0

STORM OVER NOTHING

The opposition to governor Nasir el-Rufai's religious regulation bill has been more vociferous from Christians. They claim it is the beginning of the Islamization of Kaduna State and, by extension, Nigeria.    That simply...

SHAME ON RIVERS STATE 0

SHAME ON RIVERS STATE

Shame on the youths of Rivers State! After you have killed yourselves for Amaechi and Wike, both would eventually go home and settle their differences and may be even share a meal from the...

PRESIDENT BUHARI AND THE CENTRAL BANK JOBS SCANDAL – by Sharon Faliya Cham 0

PRESIDENT BUHARI AND THE CENTRAL BANK JOBS SCANDAL – by Sharon Faliya Cham

Since the scandal that the Central Bank of Nigeria secretly recruited 909 workers, mostly drawn from among the children of the rich and influential, broke open, I have noticed the consistent attempt by Nigeria's...

ALEXANDER BADEH’S TRIAL: AS I SEE IT 0

ALEXANDER BADEH’S TRIAL: AS I SEE IT

Air Chief Marshal Alexander Badeh (retd) was the Chief of Defence Staff under the regime of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan. He was saddled with the responsibility of prosecuting the war against Boko Haram...