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Igboland isn’t the only dot in Nigeria, Buhari’s Katsina is also a dot –Ogbonnia, Ohanaeze spokesman The Punch Published 9 July 2021 Chief Alex Ogbonnia is the National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo. In this interview with RAPHAEL EDE, he talks about the recent comment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on restructuring There have been calls for restructuring of Nigeria but the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), recently asked the proponents to send their demand to the National As...

Mr Ibori was governor of oil-producing Delta State from 1999 to 2007.

The £4.2 million recovered from the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, has been paid to the Delta State Government, the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, said on Tuesday. The fund, which the federal government recently received from the United Kingdom, is part of the proceeds of crime seized from the ex-governor. Mr Idris stated this while appearing before the committee investigating the status of recovered loot. He stated that “all recovered funds that belong to the respective states are paid directly to the states”. “Some recoveries are for state governmen...

By Folasade Akpan Over the years, the challenge of providing adequate infrastructure for Nigerians has been a herculean task for government at all levels and the Federal Government has at several occasions called on organisations to help in bridging the gap. The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at an event in 2020 said that in spite of government interventions over the years, Nigeria still faces a huge infrastructural deficit, which is constraining rapid economic growth. He had said that according to the Nigerian Integrated Infrastructure Masterplan (NIIMP) and the Economic Recovery and G...

Second Niger BridgeThe devastating impact of the COVID-19 pestilence on the global economy is obvious. Reason finance experts rightly predicted that many corporations’ finances in 2020 would be in red. The International Monetary Fund did predict that the global economy would contract by three percent as countries around the world shrink at the fastest pace in decades. The IMF described the global decline as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. x It said the pandemic had plunged the world into a “crisis like no other”. The Fund added tha...