In most advanced societies, the direction of voting is almost always circumstantial. The socio-economic-cum-political situation of the State/Country motivates the direction of public voting. In the 1980’s in the US election, Ronald Reagan swept away the incumbent Jimmy Carter in a groundswell of support to clinch the Presidency largely because the economy was in trouble,…
Lai Mohammed said the amount was spent when officials of the ministry travelled for international summits before March The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said his ministry spent N19 million on international travels before the COVID-19 lockdown. He said this during the ministry’s budget defence at the National Assembly while responding to questions…
For billionaire Aliko Dangote, these are not the best of times. Recall that the President set up a team led by former FRCN boss, Jim Obazee to look into the books of CBN and other organizations. The Obazee Committee was said to have submitted its interim report to the President some weeks ago and since…
Establishments in Abuja have lamented the N100, 000 emission permit levied on business operators by the Abuja Municipal Area Council for the emission of gas from generators and other heavy duty machines. They described the levy as outrageous and capable of sending them out of business. In a letter that has gone viral on the…
Vladimir Putin has been running the table on Donald Trump and the US. Ultimately, however, it is Trump’s own aberrant – and increasingly abhorrent – presidency that is generating the most danger, not least by offering Putin more opportunities to engage in adventurism and degrade US power. NEW YORK – At a summit with US…
On 4th of July, 2022 at about 7:45pm, a Nigerian named Chidiebere left Onitsha Shoprite and on his way home, officers from Central Police Station onitsha arrested him after seeing him with IPHONE. ONE OF THE OFFFICER’S NAME IS HARRISON EMERENINI. “If you don’t settle, you will be tagged an IPOB member”, and out of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said its 2023 presidential ticket will not be given to any aspirant on a silver platter. Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yekini Nabena, said this while reacting to the public declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s National Leader, in the 2023 presidential race.
The Economic Confidential has released the Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) which shows that seventeen (17) Nigerian states are insolvent, as their internally generated revenues (IGR) in 2018 were far below 10 per cent of their receipts from the Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in the same year. The index carefully and painstakingly computed proved that…
The leadership of the organised labour in Enugu State comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has paid glowing tributes to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his exceptional commitment to the welfare of the state workforce notwithstanding the avalanche of challenges experienced by his administration since it assumed office…
An English university has won a government grant to carry out a research to know if dogs can sniff out people who have symptoms of COVID-19. Using dogs’ powerful sense of smell to detect people with Covid-19 could revolutionise how the disease is identified and tracked, according to scientists in the UK who were recently…
