Month March 2024

From Okuoma With Anger, By Austen Akhagbeme

EVER since the end of Nigeria’s fratricidal war in 1970, Nigeria has not lost trained military personnel in one swoop, in a local civil fracas like we had in Okuoma, Ughelli South local government of Delta state last week Thursday.…

Akpabio Got N90bn In 2024 Budget Padding, Claims BudgIT

More facts have emerged on the Budget Padding controversy rocking the National Assembly with reports that Senate President, Godswill Akpabio allocated N90bn to his constituency.   BudgIT,  a non- governmental organisation claimed that Akpabio padded the budget of the Ministry…

Nigeria: A History Of Scandals, By Lasisi Olagunju

ON October 29, 1974, the Nigerian Ministry of Defence, through the Ministry of External Affairs, wrote to Nigerian missions and embassies abroad that it wanted to buy tonnes of cement to build barracks for its post-civil war armed forces of…