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We see different things even when we are looking at the same picture. When CBN asked MTN to return the $8.1 billion dividends it “illegally” repatriated between 2007 and 2015, I was not thinking about MTN or CBN. Rather, my mind was on Econet, the ancestor of Airtel. Econet and MTN launched operations in Nigeria […]
Continue ReadingI used to keep the list of ‘spurious’ loans that were written off for Nigeria in 2006. Our leaders in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s had collected all sorts to build different monstrosities of their bizarre fancies. In those days, even local government chairmen collected foreign loans. Just before those loans were written off by […]
Continue ReadingA few days ago, this platform shared a story of a Nigerian woman based in Canada whose heart was said to have been broken after she discovered that her husband just got married to a woman he’s been claiming was his sister and they already have two grown kids. Pastor Glory Idahosa who has been married to […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian wife’s heart has been mercilessly broken after she discovered that her husband just got married to a woman he’s been claiming was his sister and they already have two grown sons. Christabel Idahosa has been married to Pastor Glory Idahosa for years and their union is blessed with 5 kids – 4 girls […]
Continue ReadingIf the German philosopher Max Weber is right about the causal link between religiosity and prosperity, then why, asks LSE’s Olu Fasan, is Nigeria so poor? A few months ago, the popular American preacher TD Jakes came to the church I attend in London. Preaching on leadership and wealth, he said prayer is not leadership […]
Continue ReadingThe man who appeared in the National Crime Agency’s ‘most wanted fraudsters’ appeal, Bayo Awonorin, has appeared in court after being extradited from the US. According to BBC, Bayo Awonorin was arrested in Maryland and charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder money. He was originally arrested in 2012 as part of an […]
Continue ReadingSecond Republic House of Reps member, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s actions and inactions may led Nigeria into another civil war. In an interview with Daily Post, Mohammed wondered why Buhari should appoint Yusuf Magaji Bichi as the substantive Director-General of the Department of State Security, DSS, ahead of Seiyefa. He also […]
Continue ReadingThe deputy secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), Amina Mohammed, says the two-time minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, spent years to get Nigeria out of debt. She, however, said the country was now back to worrying levels of debt. A video published by the International Monetary Fund, (IMF) on Wednesday shows Amina Mohammed, the immediate […]
Continue ReadingIn the past few weeks, I have traversed the length and breadth of Nigeria, asking my compatriots, especially members of our political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to give me a chance to fly our flag and eventually lead our country. Along the way, I have met the Nigerian people in their domains and […]
Continue ReadingUnited Kingdom has said that her position about returning looted funds is that Nigeria cannot be trusted with its money, saying that’s what underpins its poor asset return rate and it has to be addressed. Philip Hackett, a Queen’s Counsel, said this is the reservations of the UK, when it comes to returning looted funds […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Police has, through a letter, invited former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode for questioning over allegation of “conspiracy, criminal defamation, inciting publication, injurious falsehood and conduct likely to cause breach of the peace”. The letter was signed by Commissioner of Police Habu A. Sani of the IGP Monitoring Unit, Force Headquarters, Abuja, […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, it is truly tragic that the battle for who controls the commonwealth of Nigeria has brought our dear beloved country to standstill. It seems no one seems to care about the myriads of gargantuan issues confronting our country. The economy is in tatters. There is mass unemployment and it can only get worse. […]
Continue ReadingIt has been revealed that the steel industry in Nigeria is being sustained by scrap scavengers who scour over heaps of rubbish around Nigeria. Now, one out of the major organised dealers of scrap wastes in Nigeria is a Port-Harcourt-based comrade, Christopher Anayo Ogbu, who started his foray into business of motor spare parts sale […]
Continue ReadingAdams Oshiomhole, All Progressives Congress,APC, national chairman has described the defection of Godswill Akpabio to the party as uncommon. Oshiomhole, who lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for robbing the people for 16 years, asked the people not to be deceived. The former Edo state governor said this during the APC rally at Ikot Ekpene, […]
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