Has Gov. Ododo abused the Code of Conduct for Public Officers by obstructing and screening an offence in the FCT?

By Lillian Okenwa On Wednesday when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) besieged the Abuja home of Yahaya Adoza Bello, the embattled ex-governor of Kogi state Abuja to arrest him over allegations of financial crimes, the Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, was on hand to rescue him. At the end of it…

April 19, 20240Comments

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If e pain you go hug…: After approving N90 billion subsidy for Hajj Nigeria’s FG hikes electricity tariff by 300%

By Lillian Okenwa After approving the sum of N90 billion as subsidy for Hajj fares, the federal government of Nigeria finally took counsel from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which had earlier in the year said there was an urgent need for Nigeria to completely phase out electricity subsidy as part of measures to address…

April 4, 20240Comments

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Bianca Ojukwu, Debe Odumegwu Ojukwu and the doctrine of ‘a man’s first acknowledgement of a child born outside wedlock’

By Lillian Okenwa Not a few have contented that DNA would have been the strongest point for Debe Odumegwu Ojukwu and his lawyer to pursue in the matter which culminated in a High Court of Enugu holding on Wednesday, 27 March 2024 that the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in the course of…

March 29, 20240Comments

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As power generation dips to 3,500mw, why are states not exploring power generation?

Watch video By Lillian Okenwa The Nigerian Gas Tracker revealed that penalties payable for gas flaring from 2020 to January 2024 is $1.2bn. The report noted that the power generation potential of the gas flared was 59.5GWh. Despite the continual rise in cost of living, inflation, immense hardship, hunger and the increasing protests against untold…

February 19, 20240Comments

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Now the masquerade has been unmasked, when will Buhari and his ilk be arrested for looting the treasury?

Lillian Okenwa Nigeria’s pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) and present National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu made a startling disclosure on Monday when he announced that the immediate past administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari left an empty treasury. Speaking in Abuja at the Chief of Defence Intelligence Annual Conference…

November 15, 20230Comments

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Uwais at 87: A Time to honour; implement his Electoral Reform Report

By Lillian Okenwa “The Nigerian federal government in 2007, under President Umaru Musa Yar’adua led government constituted an electoral reform committee spearheaded by the former Chief justice of Nigeria, Muhammadu Uwais”, began CLEEN Foundation, a civil society organisation in its 24 May, 2019 piece: Revisiting Justice Uwais's Electoral Reform Report .” Continuing, the group in…

June 18, 20230Comments

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Was there any subversion of law on 25 February 2023? Can the Tribunal be allowed to decide?

By Lillian Okenwa As the debate continues on the propriety or otherwise of the Presidential Election result not being uploaded electronically and real-time on the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Federal government has announced that the INEC Chair never promised to transmit election results electronically. But was there really any subversion…

April 15, 20230Comments

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Murja Kunya: What exactly is that TikToker doing in prison?

By Lillian Okenwa So, a popular 24 years old Kano TikTok skit maker, Murja Kunya has been sent to prison; but for what exactly? Last Saturday, she was arrested while booking hotel rooms for guests who had come from far and near for her much-publicised birthday party in Kano. Murja was arrested by the…

February 2, 20230Comments

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Which God do Nigerians serve?

By Lillian Okenwa “Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions. Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.” – Jesus (Matthew 7:…

August 10, 20220Comments

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A holy land inhabited by evil spirits

By Lillian Okenwa “For a number of Nigerians”, David Hundeyin wrote in BusinessDay of 31 January 2022: “[The] Christian faith is little more than skin deep, no matter what he might tell you…” Hundeyin in his article Religious syncretism and Nigeria’s “money ritual” problem said: “…Take the trans-Atlantic slave trade for example- a 300-year economic…

April 21, 20222Comments

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