Several issues are raised in what now appears to be veiled jabs between the Babangida camp and the presidency. One, the camp of Jonathan has been apparently responding to the ‘Babangida challenge’. It is possible that recent reports that the federal government has set up a committee to review the Okigbo Report, (which allegedly recommended that Babangida should be prosecuted for purportedly mismanaging $12.4 billion) is part of the weapons in the armoury of the President’s camp

In a well written article published by Elombah.com a writer Law Mefor asks the question Can Attahiru Jega Make the difference Mefor answers the question tongue in cheek but says that if Mr. Jega took some steps he could make a difference? The tongue in cheek was expressed by Mefor when he looked back at Mr. Jega’s close association with Mr. Iwu and the positions he took in the Uwais’s Commission and Report. Mefor’s answer

Unlike what most farmers cherish because of its good work on the soil and subsequent large production of crops,rainy season is dreaded by motorists because of the bad shape it gives our roads and the direct effect of the bad roads on their vehicles,due to poor maintainance or inexpert construction of these roads.Unfortunately,rain,an inexorable natural phenomenon and gift from God seems to be causing more harm than good to

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, on Tuesday met Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and behind closed-doors inside the inner chamber of the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to beg for help. This comes as indication emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan is in possession of details of an EFCC investigation that exposed how Dimeji Bankole, his deputy, Usman Bayero

President Jonathan has Wednesday 30 June inaugurated the newly reconstituted Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa. Swearing in Professor Attahiru Jega as chairman and other new commissioners in the presence of Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, Ministers and top government officials,

Orji Uzo Kalu’s Progressive Peoples Alliance on Tuesday reacted to the defection of the Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, to another political party, saying the governor’s new party would not save him.

Observers are interpreting this to mean that Chief Theodore Orji  is doomed because the present Governor of Abia State, took oath of allegiance to Kalu twice at Okija shrine.

Chief Theodore Orji  at Okija Shrine

Elombah.com Correspondent was at the Nigeria@50 Summit that took place at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, in Park Lane, London, W1K 7TN today. The summit, a privately funded enterprise under the umbrella of Business in Africa Events [BIAE] to "harness the celebratory spirit into creating opportunity for business development in Nigeria". The Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of BIAE, Christian Dozie Udechukwu put together the

Jega can actually be another Iwu unless he fights really hard to step out of his shadow. For if the president says he does not know Jega, who then recommended him?  Could it be Iwu himself whom the president wouldn’t have minded reappointing? This may appear speculative, but Jega must have been pushed by certain forces and Iwu’s input  in such critical decision of appointing his successor cannot be said to be out of place and therefore implausible

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has declared for the All Progressive Alliance (APGA) today. According to Abia TV and Radio stations, the Governor decamped to APGA as a “necessary step for Abia”. This follows several months of frosty relationship between Orji and his former party, the PPA led by the governors predescesor in Umuahia, Orji Uzor Kalu. Governor Orji had earlier expressed the intention to contest for second term in office,

 This lecture is about provoking informed debate about how to proactively prepare for Nigeria to be a major player in the 21st Century, and avert any doomsday scenario. I will argue that sustainable survival will depend on how urgently Nigeria reorganizes itself for a world with minimal dependence on oil and other natural resources.

My thesis here is that without realigning the incentive- sanctions regime, the talk about diversification of the economy will remain what it has been since the 1970s--- just a wish!