NDDC: This is not all about Senator Akpabio
ETIM ETIM The forensic audit of the NDDC ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari last month has provoked interest groups to launch more attacks on Senator Godswill Akpabio, the agency's supervising minister. These attacks are vitriolic, trenchant and sometimes personal. Clearly, the potential of these examinations to unravel the rots and corruption that have buffeted the agency for years has caused panic...
Rerun: Akpabio has a lifeline!
Abasifreke Effiong I have read a number of stories, "analyses" and opinions on the Appeal Court judgment in Senator Godswill Akpabio and Senator Chris Ekpenyong's case after the court ordered a rerun in Essien Udim local government area as part of its judgment on the Ikot Ekpene (Akwa Ibom North West) senatorial district election. I had to cut short...
BUHARI’S ‘COUP’ AGAINST OIL COMPANIES
By Simon Kolawale I don’t know about you, but I would say one of the most iconic images of the Buhari administration so far is the one released to the media on Monday, November 4. President Muhammadu Buhari — with a Hausa cap sitting comfortably on his head, a green pen in his right hand and a grin on his...
Who is a journalist?
By Iboro Otongaran “Bloggers are not journalists. They are dirty job artists” —Ray Ekpu Mr Raymond Amos Ekpu, one of Nigeria’s high priests of Journalism, is reported to have made the above declaration in a talk at a recent symposium in Uyo. Thereafter there have been unceasing torrents of references in the social media to attacks on him on account of the comment. I...
