By J S Okutepa SAN “Kogi State is the least developed state in Nigeria. The capital city of the state Lokoja is a glorified village. Nothing to show that Lokoja is capital city.” Kogi State was created on the 27th of August 1991. That is exactly 32 years ago today. A child born 32 years ago is fully an adult. The same thing Kogi State is now an adult State. It is no longer a new state. But go to that state and weep. It is a state that has…
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By Paul Ejime After weeks of stand-off, tension would appear to be easing between ECOWAS and the Niger coup makers over options for the restoration of constitutional order in that country following the 26 July ouster of elected President Mohamed Bazoum. The Brig.-Gen. Abdourahamane-led junta had doubled down with reluctance to negotiate, accusing ECOWAS of bad faith in slamming punitive sanctions on Niger and threatening the use of force, without hearing the soldiers’ side of the story. However, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Nigeria’s former Head of State, who met the…
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By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. People thinking, nation focused banking system should preceed human capital development and national evolution for their sustainability. When the chips are down, nations are made of her individual citizens! The first step forward in the rebuilding of modern Israel was taken in 1902, 54 years before the return of Jews back to Israel, when Leumi bank was formed in the UK by the Jews in exile to fund the nation they envisioned. The vision of Leumi inchoated the building of modern Israel. The word “Leumi” in…
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Leading the pro-Western coalition is the president of its most powerful country, Nigeria: Bola Tinubu. One of Nigeria’s wealthiest men, the source of the scandal-plagued president’s fortune remains unclear. By Alexander Rubinstein and Kit Klarenberg Since the overthrow of Niger’s U.S.-friendly government, West African nations of the ECOWAS bloc have threatened an invasion of their neighbour. Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals. Hours after Niger’s Western-backed leader was…
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By Dele Sobowale “The worst thing that can happen to a leader is to look back; and find that nobody is following.” US President Lyndon B Johnson, 1908-1973. Talk is cheap. Nigeria is not Lagos. Presidents don’t talk first and think later. Those are three pieces of advice President Bola Tinubu should bear in mind whenever making announcements. Nigeria has recorded another first in national history. Tinubu has become the first Commander-In- Chief, who declared war – without the troops to carry out his instructions. The “Emperor of ECOWAS” has…
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By Steve Osuji The Illegitimate President: President Bola Tinubu is troubled by the fact of his illegitimacy. In leadership, legitimacy is everything. You are either legitimate or you are not. If you are illegitimate as our current president is, you are only a pretender to the throne, an impostor. As we say in street parlance, you dey like you no dey! During the Presidential campaign, Tinubu had in a now infamous video, admonished his supporters that election is not won by being coy. He told them in a viral video…
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By Balogun Akin Osuntokun After over seventy-six days in office, what are Nigerians getting and how are they faring: unplanned and ill-thought removal of fuel subsidy and unification of exchange rates; uncoordinated and confusing policy announcements; exponential increase in the prices of all goods and services especially food and other basic consumables; decline in National Savings Rate and erosion of disposable incomes of Nigerians, increasing poverty and insecurity, unimaginable extravagance and exponential increase in the cost and waste of governance exemplified with interminable appointments of litany of ministers and aides,…
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By NewsBits Many of us today do not know that Israel was destroyed as a nation just one generation after Jesus’ ascension; and that Israel did not exist again as a nation after that for almost 2,000 years, until 1948. Israel Timeline: Year BCE: 1700s – Abraham settles in the land of Israel (Canaan). 1500 – Joseph is sold into slavery. His family join him in Egypt. 1400s – The Hebrews are enslaved by the Egyptians. 1300 – Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt. 1200s – The Hebrews arrive…
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…Gov Peter Mbah Must Stop False Gallantry And State Extremism To Avoid Enugu Becoming Another Imo Killing Field The Enugu State Government under Gov Peter Mbah must be told in clear and unequivocal terms that ‘Sit-at-Home’ is not a criminal offense with prescribed penalties in any written law governed by the 1999 Constitution and the Nigeria’s acceded Rights and Humanitarian Treaty Laws. The Executive ‘criminalization’ of the “Monday-Sit-At-Home” by ways of tyrannical or dictatorial orders or military and police siege or threats of force or use of same including sealing…
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By Chooks Oko Sixty years is the diamond age. The age of retirement for the civil servant in many climes and the celebrated beginning of Senior citizenship. With it comes the expectation of a gratitude to God for an accomplished life of service, memorable achievements, and good neighbourliness. Thus, like finding the rare gem, Diamond, getting to sixty is no mean feat. Diamonds are said to last forever, and so it is with a worthy life of three score lived in service to others who are most likely not to…
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