November 2017

30 November 2017
Bloomberg
Security agency feuds threaten Buhari’s graft war in Nigeria
When agents of Nigeria’s financial crimes body arrived this month to arrest a former intelligence chief fired by President Muhammadu Buhari for stashing $43 million in cash in his wife’s apartment, they were stopped by armed secret policemen…

Punch
Farmers poisoning crops to kill herdsmen’s cows – Group
An organisation, SB Morgen, has called on the Federal Government to take decisive steps in addressing the conflict between farmers and Fulani herdsmen…

22 November 2017
CNBC Africa
Mugabe bows out: Why is it African leaders don’t want to leave power?
The resignation of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is a promising step in rebuilding the country…

17 November 2017
Daily Times
#AnambraDecides2017: Who wins Anambra governorship election tomorrow?
Periodic, free and fair election is a major feature or characteristics of democracy.

11 November 2017
Punch
Herdsmen crisis: Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, four others move to enact anti-open grazing law
After the passage of anti-open grazing laws in Ekiti and Benue states, other states like Ebonyi, Ondo, Abia, Imo and Ogun are moving to introduce similar laws to curb clashes between herdsmen and farmers within their respective boundaries…

3 November 2017
Bloomberg
Militants in Nigeria’s oil region end ceasefire, will resume attacks
A militant group in Nigeria’s southern Niger River delta, whose attacks on oil installations in 2016 cut output to the lowest in three decades, said it ended its self-imposed cease-fire and will resume its violent campaign…

The Cable
On BVN and dormant accounts
The bill to mop up over ₦3 trillion from dormant accounts – especially funds deposited by deceased folks which their next of kin aren’t aware of — in Nigerian banks and an estimated N100 billion of unclaimed dividends held back by companies passed first reading in April in Nigeria’s Senate…

YNaija
Budget 2018: Four items Nigerians will be looking out for
What will be the major talking points in President Buhari’s 2018 budget which he would present to the National Assembly next Tuesday?..