BY BANJO DAMILOLA – Corruption, either directly or indirectly, is the bane of poverty in Nigeria, various reports and researches have suggested. The Corruption Perceptions Index, released annually by Transparency International (TI), also gives credence to the pervasive corruption in the…
By Otive Igbuzor – The importance of the budget for effective service delivery in any country cannot be overemphasized. It has been recognised that the budget is perhaps the most important instrument for the development of any modern state apart from…
By Eze Onyekpere – Budgets are not made in a vacuum. They are made within a context, being the context of implementing laws, plans and policies. They are also made with development and societal transformation in mind. Budgets are expected…
When he was engaged to start writing a column for the Sunday Tribune late last year, he was given the blank cheque to christen it as he wished. Of all the names in this world, he chose ‘Injury Time.’ Everyone…
The Nigerian budget has over the years been a budget of mystery. It has been a ritual where public funds denominated in millions, billions and lately trillions, are reeled out to a bewildered citizenry, who with mouth agape wonder what…
Sometime in 2014, my uncle- in -law, the late Professor Babalola Borisade, requested I help him organize a meeting between Atiku Abubakar and South West Senators. Atiku was about to go for the season’s primary election that will enable him…
Abimbola Adelakun – Shortly after the first set of results in the presidential election emerged and it turned out that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had received a shellacking at his polling unit at the Victoria Garden City, a prime neigbourhood…
Finally, the long awaited presidential campaign and elections are over after intensive speculations, projections, plots, prayers and counter prayers. Muhammadu Buhari of the APC won with15,191,847 and his main opponent, Atiku Abubakar came second with 11,262,978 votes. With this considerable…
By Farooq Kperogi – Buhari’s asset declaration fraud is more damning than Onnoghen’s, yet it is Onnoghen who has been illegally “suspended” and pilloried in the media. In this piece I’ll show you why Buhari is a double-dyed scammer who…
...I’ll rather have an accountable man rule me any day. That is what we have in President Buhari, the mai gaskiya (honest man). And that is why I’ll follow him, till Africa and China join together, till fishes begin to dance in the streets, and remain alive. I know what pertains to my peace as a Nigerian. I know what pertains to the peace of my children…
