Day: March 13, 2023

Oil marketers, on Monday, insisted that they were no more interested in the old naira notes and would not collect them from the public, despite claims that the Central Bank of Nigeria had cleared the bills for the transaction. It was also gathered that Deposit Money Banks had yet to communicate any directive to oil

As a growing child, most Nigerians speculated on the ways to turn trees to cash. We all dreamt that the big mango tree behind our building somehow shed naira notes instead of dried leaves. But obviously, one cannot turn trees to cash because trees are trees.  This same mentality was how we all looked at

Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied involvement in the search for an organ donor for their ailing daughter, Sonia. Beatrice was last year arrested alongside her husband in the United Kingdom for allegedly trafficking a young man into the country to harvest his kidney. She denied the allegation

EDIDIONG IKPOTO examines the possible repercussions an adverse ruling in the ongoing P&ID trial could have on Nigeria’s already strained economy Judgment on the protracted legal tussle between Nigeria and hedge fund-backed Process & Industrial Development Ltd isn’t expected for at least several weeks; nonetheless, given the multiple beatings the Nigerian economy has suffered in

The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, says the sweeping victory recorded by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during the February 25 poll was due to religious and ethnic sentiments. The Delta governor stated this on Monday in Asaba while reacting to the outcome

Some people are fond of jovially saying, ‘Stop franking your face.’ They do so to show how awkward the statement sounds. The fact, however, is that some actually believe ‘franking face’ is a correct expression and thus use it – whereas it is pregnant with at least two major blunders. In the first place, although

The legal team of the Labour Party, on Monday, met with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja over their bid to inspect electoral materials used for the February 25 presidential poll. The head of the legal team, Dr Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), led 60 lawyers into the meeting to discuss modalities for obtaining

Despite the shortcomings of the 2023 presidential election, which were seemingly deliberately created by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the election has given some power to the masses and created some fear in Nigerian politicians. If INEC had kept its word of organising a completely transparent election in which all results at polling units were

Good men, they say, hardly live for themselves. Their stories are never told with hisses in disillusionment, but rather intense interest, for the many positive morals they present to the larger society. So are the testimonies of Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun, CON, the Asiwaju of Ijebu Christians, an archetype of divine favour, founder of the

The decision of the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to seek a second term in office came as no surprise to many Lagosians, in that the constitution of land permits him to do so. But the move, no doubt, was greeted by spontaneous excitement among the residents, given the quality of leadership, people-oriented policies and