Special Reports

…Iyase of Benin calls home demolition an abomination in the land …I see fraud in this matter, says Donald Inwalomhe, an Activist and security expert Like every patriotic citizen in the Diaspora, his plan was to retire to his native land and contribute to the development of his dear nation, Nigeria. After many years in the United States of America, …

President Muhammadu Buhari, earlier this week, terminated a new defence procurement contract initiated by the members of his cabinet over allegations of fraud. The contract, signed off by the Federal Executive Council in December 2017, would have seen the contractor, HSLi, net $195 million in exchange for an undisclosed number of special mission aircraft, special mission helicopters and 12 fast …

Even as the Nigerian economy is struggling to maintain stability after managing a recovery last year from one of the worst recessions in its history, Nigeria appears to be sitting on a tinderbox that could wipe off a sizeable chunk of its foreign reserves, derail the 2018 budget and plunge the economy back into recession. Two arbitration awards totaling over …

MRS holdings Ltd, oil marketing company of Nigerian billionaire, Sayyu Dantata, and international oil giant, Chevron, are at the centre of a N360 billion [$1 billion] secretive oil deal that is raising fresh tax avoidance worries in Nigeria and across West Africa, new details from the Panama Papers reveal. Details of this tax scheme emerged out of fresh evaluation of …

It was the vibration of the ringing phone that jolted him from sleep. The room was dark and cozy. The air conditioner hanging on the wall worked silently to keep the room as cold as London where he returned from earlier in the morning. Outside, the sun was blazing as the power generator churned out alternating currents to keep the …

On Sunday, March 18 this year, the Israeli police arrested three senior officials of Israel Shipyard Limited on charges of bribing government officials in Nigeria. The company’s Vice President for Marketing, Oded Breier, was one of the suspects arrested. The next day, Samy Katsav, another senior Israeli defence businessman, was questioned by police in connection with the same bribery case. …

“…with the NSA involved I was fine with it. Afterall he is the chief accounting officer of Nigeria’s national security. If he wants to buy it at N100 billion who am I to say no?” Two years ago, as the late evening sun cast the cityscape in brilliant colours and long shadows, the two of us dragged our chairs under …

This is the concluding part of this report which was first published yesterday. In that edition, it was understood that there is no way the country can have power supply without adjusting tariffs because currently the DISCOs are running at a loss Fashola ‘SADLY, rather than provide us with prepaid meters, which we gathered from reliable sources are available, EKEDC …

By Emma Ujah, Vanguard As was often the case in the past, officials of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, recently stormed the popular Festac Town in Lagos for another round of mass disconnection due to what they claimed was the continued refusal by the residents to pay their electricity bills. But it was a mission that almost turned into …

Five years ago, I bore my first child, a daughter. She was born six weeks early. She was slow to cry and pale when she emerged from behind the tent shielding my stomach. In a response that I am ashamed to admit, and one that I suspect was driven by stress, shock and anaesthesia, my first words to her were, …