July 10, 2023

Lori Iro court orders Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan, Buhari govt to account for $5bn Abacha loot

Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to give an account of the $5 billion Abacha loot so far recovered. 

Oletike Names of ex-governors receiving pensions in the 10th Senate

About 13 former Governors still receive pension allowances while still serving as Senators in the 10th National Assembly.

Lori Iro Gbenga Daniel, writes state government, demands the suspension of his monthly Ex-gov, pension of N676k

Former Ogun state governor cum Senator, Gbenga Daniel, has written to the state government asking that his pension as a former governor of the state be stopped. 

Isa Pantami’s Son Secretly Resumes At Nigerian Communications Commission As Former Minister Continues To Manipulate Board Vice-Chairman, Danbatta

A former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, is still calling the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) shots after ensuring that his son was secretly employed and resumed at the NCC office just beside his residence, SaharaReporters has learnt.

July 05, 2023

Elections: 23 Crucial Recommendations Made By EU Observers

The European Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Nigeria on Tuesday the 27th of June, published its final report on the federal and state elections of 25 February and 18 March. 

The myth of ‘suffer now, enjoy later’- Abimbola Adelakun

This time eight years ago, Nigerians still basking in the euphoria of having a martinet president began to ascribe all kinds of wonderful happenstances to his body language.

Why northerners don’t call Tinubu “Jagaban”- Farooq Kperogi

Southern Nigerians have asked me two trivial but persistent and important questions about Preselect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Rising ethnic tension between Hausa and Fulani - Farooq Kperogi

When Dan Fodio decided to “reform” the Islam he met in Hausa land, he repudiated the Islam that the Hausa people had practiced. The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, so labyrinthine, so time-honored, and so unexampled that a fictitious ethnic category called the “Hausa-Fulani” was invented by Nigeria’s southern press to describe the emergent ethnic alchemy it has produced.

The first fruits of a crooked INEC - Chidi Odinkalu

Evidence of the scope of the mess created by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the crooked leadership of Mahmood Yakubu began to emerge this past week. It all suggests network egregiousness on a monumental scale that easily rivals the elections of 2007 until now seen as the nadir in Nigeria’s journey of elective governance. The bottom has fallen off the system of electoral administration under Mahmood Yakubu’s watch.

Buhari’s toothache and a nation in its death throes - Chido Onumah

General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will leave office on May 29 after eight uneventful years. Muhammadu Buhari afflicted Nigeria with poverty, decay, corruption, injustice, lawlessness, impunity, nepotism, and insecurity. We hope it is the last time we hear from a man who rode to power eight years ago promising to end insecurity, strengthen the economy and fight corruption, none of which he achieved.
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