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Monday, 02 May 2016 01:54

Ambassador Uriah Angulu: Exit of an incorruptible anti-corruption crusader

Folu Olamiti On a very cold Sunday morning, April 3, 2016 to be precise, at Salt Lake City in Utah, United States of America, I was fighting idleness by scanning my Facebook page when my eyes caught a post by Amina Angulu-Tswanya, one of the daughters of Ambassador Uriah Angulu. It was an ominous post that sent chilling sensations down my spine. Amina had posted on her wall a beautiful picture she took with her father, with both father and daughter beaming with smiles, and wrote: "Finally at rest with Jesus...My Hero.” I swallowed hard as I took a second…

Monday, 02 May 2016 01:54

A boiling southern cauldron and the insults of northern governors

Femi Fani-Kayode Last week I wrote an essay titled ‘The Road To Kigali’ which was widely published. The callous response of the northern governors to the horrendous events in Enugu has compelled me to write this contribution as something of a follow-up. These are difficult and troubling times and these are times that the truth needs to be spoken. I appreciate those that publish my contributions in my various columns because, in a country that hates to hear the truth and that finds it difficult to comprehend and grasp reality, that in itself takes courage. I also appreciate the increasingly…

Sunday, 01 May 2016 02:05

May Day, Tiwa Savage, her husband and Nigeria

Reuben Abati “Ol’boy, man don see something oh.” “Wetin you see?” “My eyes don see something. My ears don hear, and my mouth sef, I for talk something join.” “Talk make I hear” “No be dis Tiwa Savage and him husband matter? The husband wey say him wife offend am, he no gi am food, him wife dey form for house but him dey open leg for other men, and na another woman they give am edible catering, and the man come vex he wan jump inside river for Lekki-Ikoyi bridge” “Who the hell are you talking about?” “Tiwa Savage…

Friday, 29 April 2016 02:27

Cattle herdsmen as the new Boko Haram?

Reuben Abati “No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the seeming emergence of the former as the new Boko Haram, forbidding not Western education this time, but the right of other Nigerians to live in peace and dignity, and to have control over their own geographical territory. From Benue, to the Plateau, Nasarawa, to the South West, the Delta, and the Eastern parts of the country, there have been very disturbing reports of…

Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:03

Herdsmen and the killing field

Olusegun Adeniyi On 30th July, 2013, the parents of the ten Directorate of State Security (DSS) operatives killed two months earlier by the Ombatse cult in Nasarawa State staged a peaceful protest in Lafia where the then Vice President Namadi Sambo was due to commission some projects. The protesters were responding to the statement by the then DSS Director General, Mr. Ita Ekpenyong, that the service had ‘forgiven’ the criminals who killed the DSS operatives while on a legitimate duty. “Our children were sent on an operation to save other Nigerians, and they were not given any protection. We can’t…

Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:54

Nigeria-China currency swap at a glance

Joe Uche Uwaleke As the name implies, currency swap is an arrangement between two friendly countries to trade in their own local currencies, paying for import and export trade at pre-determined rates of exchange without the use of a third currency like the United States dollar. Since the financial crisis of 2008, central banks around the world have entered into bilateral currency swap agreements with one another. These agreements allow a central bank in one country to exchange currency, usually its domestic currency, for a certain amount of foreign currency. The recipient central bank can then lend this foreign currency…

Wednesday, 27 April 2016 01:58

Jonathan is by far the better man than Buhari

Femi Fani-Kayode Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying, ‘let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us’. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision”- Psalm 2: 1-4. Everything that I said about President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC during the presidential campaign has come true. In less than one year I have been proved right in my continuous assertion that when…

Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:39

Naira-Yuan deal: A fool's dream

Edward Oparaoji Since giving away the “store” to China, with the Naira-Yuan swap, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has been making strenuous efforts to justify the awful deal. The intended benefits are to reduce the demand for the United States dollar in trade transactions with China, which account for 70-80 per cent of our imports, and ease the demand and pressure to devalue the naira. However, the deal falls short of the objectives and may hurt our economy. Abuja has embarked on this silly spin, of a likely increased Chinese imports, to distract from the horrendous deal, which boils down to…

Monday, 25 April 2016 02:27

From China with love

Yakubu Mohammed President Muhammadu Buhari did not go to China with a begging bowl in hand. In other words, he did not go there seeking for aids. And he did not come back from China with aids and handouts. He is very much aware that aids of any sort from industrialised world to the so-called developing countries, aka the Third World alias poor nations have gone out of fashion. Some 30 years back, development experts had consistently drummed it home to the poor countries in need of development that the way to go about it was not by collecting hand…

Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:12

My media crucifixion: Fighting corruption through a corrupt process

Bukola Saraki My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, “My Candid Letter to Saraki.” I take everything you said in that article to heart and I must commend you for your candidness indeed and the sincerity of your intentions. As you said in your article, you are someone I have known more by reputation than by any personal relationship, until recently when we struck up some personal acquaintance based on our shared political interests, especially during the last presidential election. However, I understand why you had to sound so defensive for knowing…

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Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:06

Confronting the curse of oil

Reuben Abati The monthly Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting was held the other day in Abuja, with the representatives of state governments again cap in hand, asking for their share of federal revenue - read: oil revenue, or better still, national cake, or our money. A paragraph in the report by the online newspaper, Premium Times, caught my attention and here it is: “But at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting, representatives of the 36 state governments went home SAD (emphasis mine), as they were handed parlous shares from a total N299.75 billion statutory allocation for the month,…

Friday, 22 April 2016 02:16

The Senate, CCT and the politics of Saraki’s trial

Reuben Abati The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since 1999. Public Relations Consultants and media officials of this particular Senate have done their part flooding both the print and the online media with details of how productive the Bukola Saraki-led Senate has been, and they have been quite aggressive in telling us about 30 important Bills which when passed, will change the face of Nigeria and deliver change. The Senate according to one report has considered over 125 bills, debated over 48 motions, and passed three bills. But nobody is…

Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:35

‘Yuanising’ the Nigerian economy

Jideofor Adibe The talk in town these days is about President Buhari’s recent trip to China and the deals, loans and currency swap that resulted from that trip. Of particular concern to many people, is the reported naira and renminbi (also known as the Yuan) swap deal, which is expected to ease trade transactions between China and Nigeria. But beyond the rhetorics and the obfuscation around technicalities, what is this deal all about? And will it really ‘crash’ the value of the dollar against the naira as some people believe? In this piece, we will look at the pros and…

Thursday, 21 April 2016 03:01

Mixed Metaphors: Fits and starts

Sonala Olumhense As confirmed by the Kaduna State government, they were killed when soldiers opened fire on Shia Muslims they claimed had tried to assassinate the army chief. The sect, members of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky’s Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), denied the accusation. It has also said that hundreds more of its members are still missing. It is painful to hear the Nigeria military’s attempt to justify the mass killing of hundreds of unarmed people, and now it also turns out they were also buried in an attempt to cover up the crime. What is more regrettable is that this…

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