Wednesday February 13th was yet another "Murtala Day”, this being the 37th anniversary of the gruesome killing of the foremost Nigerian leader, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed. In stark contrast to established tradition, the day passed with barely a whimper. The family which runs a foundation in his name kept mute. Not a single event held in his memory. No messages or newspaper pull-outs, no speeches, no ess ...

The Nigerian Judiciary, through the decision of Justice Abubakar Talba of an Abuja high court on January 28, 2013 on the police pension scam case, has sent a clear message to ‘future offenders’. John Yusuf, a Director at the Police Pension Office, was charged to court for criminal misappropriation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, under section 309 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Laws o ...

Finally, this year’s dialogue. The reader will recall that in the second part of my review of Trust’s annual dialogue last week, I concluded with a couple of examples of how the Nigerian media often allowed partisan politics to get the better of its professionalism. This was in illustration of the consensus of last year’s dialogue which was on “Politics and the Media.” The chair was former military presiden ...

There is a popular adage that states that a child who washes his hands well can dine with elders. By implication the physical and social gap between a child and his elders is not necessarily sacrosanct and to earn the rare privilege of rubbing shoulders with the elderly, the young must, as it were, pay their way with respect and due process. The elders cherish and jealously protect their exalted positions i ...

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has berated the Presidency over the revelation by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan about her  illness. The First Lady  revealed during a thanksgiving at the Presidential Villa last Sunday, that she was dead for a week and the doctors attending to her had lost hope but she was brought back to life miraculously. Deriding the Presidency for putting up so many ...

Vice President Arc Mohammed Namadi Sambo has reiterated Federal Government’s commitment to scale up its investment and ensure maintenance of qualities and standards in the Water sector, while also assuring that government would be unrelenting in its determination to reform the sector. Arc Sambo stated this when he closed the two-day Presidential Summit on Water, with the theme “Innovative Funding of Water S ...

Justice Sadiq Umar of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja has sentenced Akin Oladipupo, former manager of Wema Securities and Finance Plc and Rainbow Global ventures limited to two and a half years imprisonment for defrauding his customers. The Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC, had arraigned the convict together with his company on February 13, 2006 on a nine count charge bor ...

Delta state governor Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has sworn in 8 new Permanent Secretaries with a charge to them to be team players, impartial and neutral in service delivery. Dr Uduaghan who enjoined them to abide by the civil service code of conduct and promote diligence, selflessness and honesty in carrying out their duties, described the civil service as a stabilizing factor and a link between the past and pres ...

As the Ijaw National Congress (INC) prepares to elect its national officers, the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has reaffirmed the support of his administration for the organisation and other related Ijaw organizations. The Governor, who stated his position While speaking with Government House correspondents, emphasized that government has NO preferred candidate in the election. As a on ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged religious leaders to help the country by navigating religion away from politics. The former Vice President said, had this been the case few years ago, the nation would have been spared the needless controversies and dissipation of energies that trailed the introduction of Sharia in some parts of the North. In a statement issued by his media office in Abuja on T ...