Joseph Tegbe arrived at the Ministry of Power with an unusual combination of credentials. A first-class degree in civil engineering. More than three decades in consulting and public-sector reform. A professional life spent largely in finance, taxation, institutional transformation and advisory services. That makes for an impressive CV. It...
Sufuyan Ojeifo
In support of the Federal Government’s quest for affordable house rent for workers There is perhaps no more revealing measure of the health of a society than the answer to a simple question: Can a man who works honestly afford to put a roof over the heads of his...
Kano Nigeria, September 27, 2026 :The PBAT Door-to-Door Movement on Sunday commenced mobilisation in Kano State to rally support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid. Speaking at the official inauguration of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement held in the open arena of the Kano State Government House, the Grand...
There are institutions whose work is so closely intertwined with national security. that much of what they do must necessarily remain outside the public gaze. The Department of State Services (DSS) is one such institution. Its successes are often classified, its operations cannot always be publicly explained, and its...
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” — Acts 4:12 There is a growing language in our world today about interfaith understanding, interreligious dialogue, religious harmony, common brotherhood, and global peace. There is...
Nigeria’s democracy and its federalist architecture face two critical challenges. First is how to elect governors that are sufficiently literate and enlightened to understand the rudiments and responsibilities of governance. The second and perhaps more important challenge is how to get state governors to understand that democracy is only...
British journalist Mark Doyle is on record as one of the outstanding, but very few, “engendered species” of foreign correspondents who reported on and in Africa, its people, and conflicts from the heart, with understanding and empathy. Other survivors from the old brigade of news hunters, whom I can...
The Chairman of Ushongo Local Government council in Benue State, Hon. Timothy Terkimbi Adzu, has made history with the flag-off of the construction of the first asphalt township road in Lessel town. Created in 1989, Lessel, the headquarters of Ushongo Local Government, has never witnessed the construction of a...
The PBAT Door-to-Door Movement has commenced mobilisation in Borno State to rally support for the reelection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in 2027. Borno is the home state of the Vice President. Speaking at the official unveiling of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement in Maiduguri...
It is perhaps the most cursed portfolio in the Nigerian cabinet: Minister of Power. From Chief Bola Ige who famously promised to fix power in six months and could not, through the $16 billion power probe under President Olusegun Obasanjo that fixed nothing, to Adebayo Adelabu who in 2024...
There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society possible. That point is reached when a private telephone conversation is allegedly recorded, extracted from its original context and released into the...
There are moments in the life of a nation when an economic policy ceases to be a matter for government papers, economists and policy conferences and becomes painfully personal. For millions of Nigerians, the removal of fuel subsidy is one such moment. It is no longer merely about what...
Reuben Abati of Arise TV has characterised Nyesom Wike as a “political mercenary”, a description that may generate considerable debate about the former Rivers State governor’s extraordinary political journey and his evolving relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The metaphor is deliberately provocative. A mercenary, in its conventional sense,...
The death of 37 suspected illegal miners, mainly youths in the detention facility of Nigeria’s Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the northern state of Niger, has elicited widespread condemnation and public outrage, with the NGO Centre for Community Law, Amnesty International, Nigeria, and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) among organisations calling...
The contest for the presidency of Nigeria in the election on 11 August 1979 was between five candidates. Nnamdi Azikiwe of the Nigerian Peoples Party was born on 16 November 1904. On election day in 1979, he was over 74 years. Obafemi Awolowo of the Unity Party of Nigeria...
Chidi Amuta In Nigeria today, the market of memoirs is now a field jammed with a buffet of titles by political mammals. And politicians in these parts have a penchant for poisoning most things they come into contact with. Anything hugged by Nigerian politics never remains the same. It...
There are good reasons why Leno Adesanya and his company, Sunrise Power Transition Company lost their case at the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, an outcome that sparked widespread nationwide celebrations across Nigeria.The ICC threw out the USD 2.35 billion claim by Sunrise on the Mambila Hydro Electric Power...
The Handover Statement There is another important piece of evidence in the debate: the financial information associated with Peter Obi’s handover. A document presented as Obi’s March 2014 handover financial summary reportedly identified local investments of approximately ₦27 billion, foreign-currency investments of about US$156 million, certified State and MDA...
The latest controversy over the financial legacy of former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has once again demonstrated how easily public finance can become entangled in political narratives. Numbers are being deployed as weapons, headlines are competing with counter-headlines, and Nigerians are being invited to choose between competing versions...
The Federal High Court sitting in Uyo has convicted and sentenced nine out of 19 persons arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for crude oil theft in Akwa Ibom State. Delivering judgment on Monday, the presiding Judge, Justice Joy Ikpeme found the convicts guilty on two count-charge...