Editorial
’CREATE GRAZING RESERVE IN SAMBISA FOR HERDSMEN’
As controversy rages over the proposal for grazing reserve across the country for Fulani herdsmen, a human rights group, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, has suggested to President Muhammadu Buhari, to clear Sambisa Forest of Boko Haram terrorists and us it as a grazing reserve.
The s [...]
BUHARI: CHANGE SOMETIMES COME WITH PAIN
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday told Nigerians that change sometimes come with pain while restating his commitment to changing the “lives of Nigerians”.
Buhari in a series of tweets on Sunday evening through his official Twitter handle, @NGRPresident, urged Nigerians to be patie [...]
As Fuel scarcity persists: DESPERATE TIMES FOR RESIDENTS
As fuel scarcity persists and the crisis in the power sector lingers coupled with limited liquidity in circulation, residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have adopted desperate measures to cope with the tough times.
Most of those who spoke to our correspondent said they have had to cu [...]
Nigerian Senate re-enacts Italian ’94
Back in '94 an Italian contractor went into a government office in Milan to bid for a small supply job worth about $4000. The head of the department asked him for a small kickback.
The contractor was pissed off. Times were hard for him and he had had enough of the demand for kickbacks in the [...]
The Rift Over 2016 Budget
The 2016 budget currently awaiting presidential assent is, perhaps, one of the most controversial public document in recent history.
Regardless of its late submission, issues of disappearance, multiple versions, withdrawal and substitution, as well as padding trailed the N6.06 trillion ap [...]
Okpa, Abuja’s fast moving ’snack’
Okpa, the traditional eastern delicacy is gradually making its way into the hearts of Abuja residents, occupying the enviable position of the most popular street ‘snack’ in the FCT.
From the satellite town to the city center, the rich orange presence of Okpa is easily spotted along b [...]
How much is enough?
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Panama Papers and the Pandora Box
An event happened during the week that will ensure that the world never remains the same again. I do refer to some apocalyptic contrivance about to be lifted from the creative scripts of Hollywood or the epic episodes of Nollywood. I speak rather, of a seismic shift in the balance of power in the worl [...]
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