By: Ben Oguntuase There are three levels of high fraud that the removal of subsidy will tackle. The first is fraudulent payment on phoney import of PMS. The product is fraudulently certified as imported into Nigeria...
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Nigeria’s N4.6 trillion 2011 budget runs into hitch
By Omodele Adigun, Louis Iba, Adewale Sanyaolu and Chima Nwokoji The SUN Monday, September 19, 2011 The alarm sounded last week by the Minister of Finance, Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the zero-level...
Nigeria: A Nation examined in one day
A day after 9/11’s 10th anniversary celebration in the US it was no surprise to see the Nation newspaper taking the human interest story of the event as the front page, and terrorism Nigeria style as another. The...
Japan: INCJ Beyond Ninja
Something is happening in Tokyo. Since the great Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011, life has been back to normal. Students have since resumed classes and the yearly national baseball game has come and gone where high...
Save Bakassi March
Worldwide march to highlight the plight of the indigenous people of Bakassi.
Bankole’s Fear of the Unknown. Behind The Figure By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
At the instance of the Presidential Task Force on Power, a meeting was held two Wednesday’s ago between members of the task force and the leadership of the House of Representatives to brief the latter on the road...
GEJ: No Police Rescue for Me – By: Patrick Nwadike
Some politicians in Asia approached me in January 2010 to find out what they could do for me. I had provided information that helped them win landslide in a contest between DPJ and LDP. Within two weeks, I presented...
Washington Post: How Africa won the World Cup – By Dayo Olopade
JOHANNESBURG -- The first African World Cup didn't belong to Africa, at least not on the soccer field. Of the six African nations that made it to the quadrennial tournament, five fell early -- to indiscipline,...
Anti-corruption war: Still waiting for Jonathan – By Fidel Odum
As early as the 4th Century B.C., the Greek philosopher Plato, had written a book, The Republic, in which he stated that whether there is justice or injustice in any society is an empirical fact, more so in one that...
Did you or did you not, Mr President?
ONE thing that pains me badly is how forgetful we are. The other is our complex over white skin which I made an issue before they signed foreign coach to replace Amodu Shaibu. I recalled the style of Berti Vogts two...
Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster caused headlines around the world, yet the people who live in the Niger delta have had to live with environmental catastrophes for decades. We reached the edge of the oil spill near the...
Beyond the Doctrine of Economic Pragmatism – Behind The Figures By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
Exactly one month after the 2010 budget was passed, the Federal Government and legislature have beaten a hasty retreat to the drawing board. Both sides have accepted that the budget would have to be revised to reflect...