Category: Politics

    By Peter Enahoro (Peter Pan)   Older heads in the Enahoro clan know enough about political state pardons not to get excited by it. It is not a  pension annuity, not a war decoration or a medal for exceptional services to society. You don’t even get to have a handshake with the President.   What’s to celebrate?   You don’t get a State Pardon for smoking a pipe in church.  You have to have been in jail or had your reputation wrongfully dragged through hell. You’re then told,…

  …says Obi-Young’s action smacks of libel    Previous relationship with El-rufai’s uncovered   Following the outrage generated over the sack of deputy editor, Brittle Paper, Otosirieze Obi-Young, by its publisher, Ainehi Edoro, the latter in her defence said the decision was taken after effort to reach understanding with Obi-Young failed.   According to reports, Brittle Paper, Nigeria’s leading literary news website, caused outrage after it censored and deleted a story written by Obi-Young, on the threat by Bello, son of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, to ‘rape’ a Twitter…

U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday called on the “boneheads” at the Federal Reserve to push interest rates down into negative territory, a move reluctantly used by other world central banks to battle weak economic growth that risks punishing savers and banks’ earnings in the process.   Trump, in a pair of Twitter posts, said negative rates would save the government money on its debt, which including Social Security accounts has reached a record $22 trillion on Trump’s watch. He did not address the risks or financial market tensions that central…

President Muhammadu Buhari Yesterday, Wednesday renamed the Abuja National Stadium after late Moshood Abiola, the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 Presidential election. President Buhari made the announcement while addressing the nation on Democracy Day celebration in Abuja, noting that while alive, Chief MKO Abiola gave immense support to the development of sports in Nigeria and Africa so much that he was named and honoured as Africa’s Pillar of Sports. He recalled that Chief Abiola formed the Abiola Babes Football Club, which was based in Abeokuta and was one of…

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has condemned in totality the open display of lawlessness and rascality involving indiscriminately massive deployment of hoodlums in the conduct of supplementary gubernatorial election in Kano state. In a statement made available to Newsfieldglobal, the civil society organisation said while election constituted a formal citizenry decision-making process by which a population chooses a credible individual to hold public office, “we find it disturbing that citizens’ choices and decisions were largely influenced and determined by high incidences of vote-buying facilitated by hoodlums and party…

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has expressed concern over outcome of last week’s gubernatorial elections in some states of the federation. CISLAC is particularly worried that elections in some states including Sokoto, Bauchi, Adamawa, Pleateau and Kano were declared inconclusive. In a statement signed by the Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), and made available to New Telegraph, the civil society group said the apparent disproportionate declaration of the state electoral outcomes by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), especially across states whose results were declared inconclusive,…