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Okowa Meets Behind Closed-doors With DESOPADEC Board, Assembly Leadership Over Budget Passage Scandal

BEVERLY HILLS, January 13, (THEWILL) – Delta state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday held a closed-door meeting with the Chairman and Management of the Delta State Oil Producing Development Commission, DESOPADEC, over an alleged budget passage scandal rocking the...

China Holds Line On Yuan, Stocks Weaken Again

China's central bank held the line on its yuan for a fourth straight session on Wednesday while putting the squeeze on offshore sellers of the currency, calming fears of a sustained depreciation - at least for now. Having been alarmed...

Uber Receives Nearly $2 Billion Investment From Chinese Firms

Uber Technologies Inc said on Wednesday it has received almost $2 billion in funding from Chinese investors, some as part of a recent fundraising round that valued the U.S. firm's Chinese unit at $7 billion. Uber's main global entity received...

Buhari Must Give Looters Only 20% Attention For Nigerians To ‘See Changes’ – Ashimolowo

SAN FRANCISCO, January 13, (THEWILL) – A Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo has observed that “it will take forever for majority of Nigerians to see changes” unless President Muhammadu Buhari adopts the Pareto’s...

Onu Jets Out To China, Indonesia For Talks On Science, Technology Initiative

SAN FRANCISCO, January 13, (THEWILL) – The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday proceeded on an official visit to China and Indonesia to hold talks with his counterparts in both countries to strengthen areas of co-operation...

BBOG Group Tasks Soldiers For Preventing Chibok Parents From Traveling To Abuja

SAN FRANCISCO, January 13, (THEWILL) – The advocacy group for the release of the abducted Chibok girls, Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, has accused Nigerian soldiers of preventing parents of the abducted schoolgirls from travelling to Abuja to join...

OPINION: THE WAR BEGGING BUHARI’S ATTENTION

Nigerians are in the midst of a familiar feeding frenzy. On the menu this time, former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Prosecutors allege that Mr. Dasuki, a retired colonel of the Nigerian Army, took more than $2 billion that...

OPINION: THE PUNCH EDITORIAL OF TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015: AN ANALYSIS  OF A POORLY CONSIDERED EDITORIAL

On December 22, 2015, The Punch published an Editorial Opinion titled ‘Fashola’s False Start on Electricity’. It left me, and I imagine others who have for decades keenly followed developments in the country’s Power Sector, confounded. The OpEd fell...

OPINION: BETWEEN TECHINICAL, MARGINAL OR COMPLETE DEFEAT OF BOKO HARAM

Like other belligerent groups before it, the end of Boko Haram insurgency is certain. Nigerians look forward with enthusiasm their impending doom’s day. Between technical, marginal or complete defeat of the sect, the promise made by the All Progressive...

OPINION: BUHARI, DASUKI, KANU,  TYRANNY AND THE  RULE OF LAW

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” ― Euripides, Orestes Interestingly, it was Adolf Hitler who said “To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.” IBB' coup speech in 1985  " Major-General Muhammadu...

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