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Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Deacon Markson Fefegha has described the fire that gutted parts of the transmission equipment of DAAR Communications, owners of AIT and Ray power, Yenagoa as unfortunate and sad. Speaking shortly after an inspection tour of the communication facility, Deacon Fefegha, who was accompanied by Chief Press Secretary to […]

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is set for an emergency meet during which it would discuss yesterday’s suspension of Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by President Goodluck Jonathan. Convening the meeting in a statement on Friday, Director-General of NGF, Asishana Okauru said the two agenda for discussion are removal of […]

Pablo Picasso once said that “Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo’s statement might find expression in men of God, who consistently tell their followers to always be students of dream.  According to these men of God, whatever eventually comes to be first took form in the spiritual realm.  Today, I am persuaded to agree […]

Convicted on Friday for killing his wife, Titilayo, a banker by stabbing her 76 times, Akolade Arowolo collapsed and cried in court as the judge, Justice Lateefat Okunu of the Ikeja High Court sentenced him to death by hanging. Arowolo continually shouted “Jesus have mercy”, as he wept. In her judgment, which lasted more than three hours, […]

The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria should be like Caesar’s Wife, above all suspicions. Mr. Lamido Sanusi is plastered with suspicions but it is wrong to suspend him now. It is politically not right. Suspending him might also be legally suspect. .There are many reasons why it would have been very nice if […]

When Sanusi Lamido Sanusi lost his job, and chose to head for Lagos rather than Abuja where he had a home, many did not read much meaning into it, until it emerged that he was received by All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains led by, none other than one like him, Mallam Nasir el Rufai, in […]

Nothing has been more gratifying in recent times to many Nigerians than the dethronement of the man who went about as if he were the ‘Emir’ of the Nigerian financial instituions, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. As Mr Adebayo Adeleke, General Secretary, Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria (ISAN), said in a report filed by the News Agency […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine has obtained the report of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria recommending the suspension of former Governor Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Sanusi Lamido. Issued on 7th June 2013, the report followed the council’s appraisal of the response of the ex-CBN governor to President Goodluck Jonathan’s query on the bank’s financial statement […]Read More

In 2011, I had the privilege of writing a letter  to the recently returned Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on behalf of my boss. Despite being meticulously prepared, the letter was sent back for corrections. Astonishingly, the new Minister was refusing to read any letter that was not addressed to the “Coordinating Minister of the […]

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, can legitimately transfer its participating interest in oil mining leases (OML) to its wholly owned subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company,NPDC. The AGF provided the legal position during the investigative hearing of the […]

The Federal House of Representatives on Thursday mandated its Committee on Education to investigate activities of the Nigeria University Commission (NUC) over alleged corruption in the process of accrediting programmes in Nigerian universities. The resolution was passed after the adoption of the motion sponsored by Abayomi Kabir, which was unanimously supported during Thursday plenary. The committee is to determine […]

Thursday’s suspension of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) by President Goodluck Jonathan is patently illegal, poorly thought-out, in bad taste and will definitely have negative consequences for the nation’s economy, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said. In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National […]