By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas My column on the back page of Saturday Tribune today: Nigeria is doddering on the edge of never-before-seen economic desolation, but President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration’s major preoccupation is not to bring ministration to a badly hurting nation but to prosecute harmless, impoverished, malnourished, and undernourished minors of […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas File photo of Peter Obi Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has faulted the court order barring financial allocation to Rivers state. On Wednesday, a federal high court in Abuja restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from further disbursing financial allocations to the Rivers state government. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has sought transfer of the casefile of 114 EndBadGovernance protesters from the police to his office. Mr Fagbemi also directed the director of Public Prosecution of the Federation to bring the adjournment date to an earlier date. “It has just […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The internet is ablaze with a viral video of House of Representatives member Alexander Mascot Ikwechegh from Abia State—who, in an amusing slip of self-importance, incorrectly refers to himself as a “Senator of this Republic”—brutally harassing a poised and unflappably courteous Bolt driver in Maitama, Abuja, identified as […] Read more
Basil Okoh MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Bola Tinubu’s abrogation of the Ministry of the Niger Delta Affairs is a direct provocation to the peoples of the Niger Delta: an offensive against the progress of its people. These are the people whose sacrifices over the decades and the devastation of their environment from the exploitation of crude […] Read more
