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EFCC Releases Former SGF Babachir Lawal

BEVERLY HILLS, January 26, (THEWILL) - Engineer Babachir Lawal, the former Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), who is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for corruption, has been released on bail. EFCC sources confirmed that he...

New Africa-Wide Initiative Will Create Jobs

Ibrahim Mayaki is the chief executive officer of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development Agency (NEPAD), an implementation organ of the African Union that mobilises resources and coordinates the development of projects on the continent. In the margins of...

OPINION: REMOVE THE SUBSIDY: CREATE A MILLION JOBS

Price controls are regarded by economists as one of the worst forms of intervention in markets. Over the years, the history of governments implementing price controls has shown that it is a failed venture. If truth be told, no...

OPINION: LOSS OF $21BN OIL REVENUE: IOCS AND NIGERIA’S DEEP OFFSHORE OF FRAUD

Provoked by statements credited to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on December 17, 2017, while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had lost about $21...

OPINION: RE: KANO VISIT: GEN DAMBAZAU HEADS KWANKWASO’S SECURITY COMMITTEE

The news report emanating from a national daily and published by some social media outfits insinuating that the Honourable Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau has been appointed as the head of Security Committee in the planned...

OPINION: OPED: LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT, POWER MINISTRY AND FASHOLA-PHOBIA

Things seem to be looking up and brighter this year in the often stormy relationship between the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing -the "Infrastructure Ministry" , as some will...

OPINION: APC FAILED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: A FORETOLD TRAGEDY

There is no gainsaying the fact that the APC Federal Government has failed. There is no sector of national life that is thriving. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) are so disheartening that even top government officials are...

OPINION: THE GROUSE AGAINST GRAZING RESERVES AND CATTLE COLONIES

The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe has found a new “answer” to the lingering problem of farmers/herders clashes. At a retreat organised recently by the ministry, Ogbe announced the introduction of cattle colonies throughout the country...

OPINION: CAN OBASANJO’S ‘LETTER BOMB’ CAUSE BUHARI ELECTORAL FATALITY?

I was in a meeting when former President Olusegun Obasanjo's "letter bomb" rent the "news-sphere". When I received the news alert, I hastened my business because I was seized by capricious anxiety to read the former president's missive. I must...

OPINION: 2019: RUN AND RUN, PRESIDENT BUHARI, RUN

Until I am convinced that Nigeria is not being transformed by President Muhammadu Buhari, there is no ground for me to dissociate myself from the millions of voices of Nigerians calling for the continuity of this government. Simply, the...