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By Obi Ebuka Onochie As 2019 elections draw closer, activities informed by future projections, calculations and manipulations keep manifesting in different areas with different people at different times. Take for a striking example of what is going on in Imo state. It is now breeding many interests and actors within and outside South East geopolitical zone under the APC. In other flash points of APC crisis of Ondo, Ogun, Rivers and Zamfara states, they still bear the same fingers except Zamfara and Rivers states. Former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu is believed by many to be at the manipulative center of the commotion. Tinubu hasn’t hidden his desire to take over from Buhari in 2023 if Buhari wins another term. Let’s go to the beginning and put things in proper perspective. Buhari promised to do only one term and he was supported and succession game started almost immediately he was announced the winner by Prof. Jega in April of 2015. El-Rufai was said to be hawking himself to ...

By   Paul Oreniyi And yesterday the bird of night did sit, Even at noon-day, upon the market-place, Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say “These are their reasons; they are natural.” For I believe they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon.” “Indeed, it is a strange disposed time,” to further quote the inimitable. – William Shakespeare.   *Oshiomhole  It had all the trappings of a Hollywood movie, save that it is a tragic, if not macabre one. Viewed from a related angle, features of a palace coup are also visible, enacted fully or piecemeal – “here”, and to be fully enacted “there” if Abuja is found remiss in the rapidly unfolding events of the ruling party. For the taciturn army general turned politician at the helm of affairs of the APC-led government, the augurers are still out there plucking the entrails of an offering. Will they find a heart or not as the clock ticks towards February 2019? For the c...

By Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa Ordinarily there should be so much going for  Nigeria ’s economy. Production of crude oil at about 2 million barrels per day at a good price of about 70 dollars per barrel is yielding good foreign exchange for the Nation, helping to boost foreign reserves which today stand at about 47.25 Billion dollars. Inflation has continued to decline steadily over several months coming to the current level of 11.4% as the CBN and its MPC retain monetary policy index at a tight stance. *President Buhari and Finance Minister Adeosun    Also some great effort is being made at the economic management level to pursue the Nigeria Economic Recovery and Growth   plan( NERGP). Additionally, some improved liquidity has been noticed in terms of funding  Nigeria ’s infrastructure projects, combining oil revenue,tax heist with a large dose of debt from sundry sources. Though the trickle down effect of the budgetary expenditure and policy choices are yet to app...