A Lagos slum today, a choice estate for the rich tomorrow as deadly force employed in another mass eviction – Tola Adenle

It’s become such a regular occurrence, especially in Lagos where Nigeria’s choicest and most expensive properties are that it does not matter what type of government the country is under – military or civilian – poor people who live in slums that happen to be good locations will get removed to make way for land […]

Is Ondo State – as part of a grand divide-and-rule design – set for emergency rule? – Tola Adenle

Why should a governorship election candidacy selection turn into mayhem? Who should decide on which candidate run for governorship election: a political party or the “federal”  government agency, the “Independent” National Election Commission? Will the ongoing protests in the streets of Akure, the state capital lead to an emergency rule that would pave way for […]

Herdsmen/farmers crisis: Benue farmers seek govt’s help to regain lost farms -premiumtimesng.com

Source: Premium Times/News Agency of Nigeria   Herdsmen/farmers crisis: Benue farmers seek govt’s help to regain lost farms FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016. 2:38 a.m. [GMT]  

Fulani Herdsmen: Ekiti’s anti-grazing bill: herdsmen caught armed while grazing to face terrorism charges – premiumtimesng.com

  Ekiti outlaws free cattle grazing; offenders face stiff penalty Herdsmen caught armed while grazing to face terrorism charges — Fayose RELATED:  Defend yourself against Fulani herdsmen – Ohaneze tells Ndigbo Defend Yourself Against Fulani Herdsmen – Ohanaeze Tell Ndigbo TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2016. 3:54 a.m. [GMT]

2016 Olympics (3):$395,000 gift to Nigeria’s U-23 no longer hijacked by officials! – Tola Adenle

Letter from Nigeria’s Charge d’Affaires in Japan specifying the recipients of the donation  [Credit: Sahara Reporters]     Despite the agony and discomfort that the Nigerian team went through which saw them at the Rio Olympics the same day they played their first match – all because Nigerian government officials did not pay the airlines nor […]

#Panama Papers (6)*: Kola Aluko’s involvement in Nigeria’s oil sales losses – premiumtimesng.com

  In September 2015, Beyoncé sat on a yacht drinking sparkling wine with her legs wrapped under a striped, earth-toned blanket as the Faraglioni rocks, near Capri on Italy’s west coast, passed by. The singer and her husband, Jay Z, paid a reported $900,000 that week to sail the Mediterranean Sea on the Galactica Star, […]

#Panamapapers (5): Nigeria’s Premium Times follows the paper trail by Nigerian lawyers to Mossack Fonseca, named names!

EXPOSED: #Panamapapers: The Nigerian lawyers who acted as intermediaries for Mossack Fonseca – [Nigeria’s] Premium Times   Some faces of Nigerian lawyers from law firms involved in the infamous Panama Papers leak. Their “companies are however making spirited efforts to deny inks with Mossack Fonseca”. Documents, though, are disproving denials.      Some Nigerian lawyers worked extensively with […]

And yet, still, the National Question : President Buhari & the growing charges of nepotism/sectionalism- Tola Adenle

All in the Family, Quite a few from the “tribe”!   From Top, L to R: Daura, “Principal Adviser”;(North) Amina-Bala Zakari (nee Husaini Adamu), National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. (Ms. Zakari is not only INEC Commissioner but a senior sister to the Minister of Water Resources; they are supposed to be Buhari’s niece and […]

How Nigeria’s Accountant General deceived VP Osinbajo, governors; ₦324 billion oil money unaccounted for – premiumtimesng.com Exclusive

The amounts looted/stolen/lost in Nigeria keep piling up from almost-daily revelations: missing [recovered] Abacha loot; unremitted oil revenues; billions from “Dasukigate” … Nigeria’s Accountant-General of President Jonathan’s Administration was Mr. Jonathan Ogunniyi Otunla. TOLA. EXCERPT: The total remittance for the period of 2011 to June 2015 was ₦3,494,675,032,256. But PREMIUM TIMES’ analyses of the figures […]

#Panamapapers (2): How ex-Nigerian minister [Rasheed Gbadamosi] bought two penthouses in Panama for N837million – premiumtimesng.com

by Nicholas Ibekwe “I understand that we must be very careful in such a large transaction, but we must not scare off customers and lawyers who often get us patrons. The Lord Gbadamosi is a very influential figure in Nigeria who has been Minister of State, and today is chairman of the regulatory body for […]