Monthly Archive: June 2017

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The 2017 Federal Budget Controversy

The National Assembly (NASS) has allegedly distorted the 2017 Budget. The Honourable  Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has cried out that he could hardly recognize his Ministry’s own final budget as...

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IBB On Restructuring?

I would respect any other person but Babangida calling  for restructuring. Babangida set Nigeria on the downward slope when he annulled the June 12 1993 presidential election. He killed political apprenticeship in Nigeria when...

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Random musing on restructuring – by Frank Ofili

In the hay days of IBB’s brutal dictatorship (1985 – 1993), foremost nationalist, late Chief Anthony Enahoro, the man who moved the motion for Nigeria’s Independence, formed a group known as the Movement for...

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Why nobody knows how many Nigerians there are

NIGERIA is Africa’s most populous country, a designation it wears with pride. It had more than 182m citizens in 2015, according to the World Bank, and is poised to have the world’s third-largest population,...

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Bank Charges and Recent Regulatory Guidelines

Introduction Allegations of arbitrary, unauthorised and unfair trade practices in the financial services industry continue to be a matter of much contention and acrimony. Also rife are reports of the imposition of charges that...

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The emerging Kogi uprising – by Frank Ofili

I am aware of the constitutional processes to recalling a sitting Senator in Nigeria. Those processes are nothing short of obstacles deliberately put in the way. Why should it be so difficult to recall...

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Why We Cannot Curb Corruption

It is not unusual in our clime for judge on a salary of N500,000 per month to be discovered to have N500 million in his bank account plus several hundreds of thousands in hard...

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$1m my highest ransom, says Evans

“I was into auto spare parts importation but lost all my money, over N25 million, when customs seized my goods. From there, I relocated to South Africa, where I started peddling drugs. But along...

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Ignorant, you are

You are a separatist agitator. You say you want out of Nigeria because the country is not one. But you adore the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium etc.   You are...

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Some Church, Some practice – by Frank Ofili

This is probably a story fit for beer parlour. Many might consider it untrue but the truth is, it happened and it happened to me. I witnessed it ‘live’. And this is the second...