The truth of Islam unveiled; Daily Trust got it wrong!

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:31; Written by Daniel Elombah

Last week’s sporadic (planned?) violence over an amateur video that blasphemed the Islamic religion and Prophet Muhammad has continued in much of the Muslim world. Starting in Egypt, and then Libya, where crowds stormed the American embassy in Benghazi; it claimed the lives of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three

Islam is too sensitive

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Thursday, 13 September 2012 10:29; Written by Daniel Elombah

Historian Tom Holland has received death threats after channel 4 screened his documentary on the history of Islam. The Television station was this week forced to cancel a second screening of the controversial documentary after the presenter was

The Princelings have partitioned our common patrimony

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Saturday, 04 August 2012 21:49; Written by Daniel Elombah

Mohammed Babangida, the eldest son of former president Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida last week confirmed that preparation is in top gear in his plan to become the governor of Niger State in 2015. Mohammed Abacha, son of another former dictator is also working assiduously to emerge the governor of Kano state. Mahmud Tukur,

Analysis: The Conspiracy of the Embassy of Nigeria Washington and the EFCC against Emeka Ugwuonye

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Thursday, 05 July 2012 12:02; Written by Daniel Elombah

Elombah.com this morning published a rare picture of how and why the Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (the EFCC) got involved in the case of the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington against Emeka Ugwuonye. The picture shows how and why the EFCC arrested Ugwuonye. Elombah.com said that every step taken by

Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla Bounces Back!

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:49; Written by Daniel Elombah

Ngozi Iwealla Three reports yesterday indicate that Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's credibility might just recover from recent setbacks suffered from the fallout at the removal of fuel subsidy and the escalating debt profile of the country under her watch.

Azazi’s removal; the triumph of politics over professionalism

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:09; Written by Daniel Elombah

The removal General Owoye Azazi as the National Security Adviser by President Goodluck Jonathan is evidently the triumph of politics over professionalism, anyone who thinks otherwise or believes that the sacking of General Azazi and Dr. Bello Haliru as national security adviser and minister of defence respectively will mean the end the

Bill Prohibiting Public Officials from Training Their Children Overseas

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 10:31; Written by Daniel Elombah

The Transform Nigeria Citizens Initiative [a.k.a Transform Nigeria Movement] in collaboration with Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed [PDP, Kano Central] is currently pushing for a bill that prohibits Nigerian public officials from training their children/wards

Anambra: Where El Rufai got it wrong

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Monday, 11 June 2012 14:01; Written by Daniel Elombah

Going by the strident reactions to Mallam Nasir el Rufai’s, article, 'Anambra’s budget of misplaced priorities', published on Elombah.com last Friday, it appears that fellow Anambrarians have ignored my advice in part 1 of this series to make this criticism of Anambra State by Mallam el-Rufai a debate on verification of facts, quest for

Between Mallam Nasir el Rufai, and Governor Peter Obi – Part One

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Sunday, 10 June 2012 00:16; Written by Daniel Elombah

I have met both Mallam Nasir el Rufai, and Governor Peter Obi, and have engaged each in animated conversations that lasted several hours. On each occasion, they exhibited such finesse that is sometimes lacking in your typical Nigerian “big man”. Most importantly, they are one of the few Nigeria politicians you could spend hours with

Goodluck Jonathan; the Lesson from JP Morgan

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Monday, 14 May 2012 20:50; Written by Daniel Elombah

"In presenting myself for service, I make no pretence that I have a magic wand that will solve all of Nigeria's problems or that I am the most intelligent Nigerian, Far from it. What I do promise is this: If I am elected President in 2011, I will make a covenant with you the Nigerian people to always do right by you, to tell you the

There is Method to this Boko Haram Madness

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 22:23; Written by Daniel Elombah

When the news broke that a suicide bomber targeted a convoy carrying a senior police official in Nigeria today, killing at least 10 people, Fakulujo Ayo commented that “it’s becoming more evident that we have fierce demonic and vehement Vampires in Nigeria”, however, the sustained Boko haram attacks in the last few days if anything

Nigeria’s CJ Musdapher’s Reformist Credentials called into question

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Friday, 18 November 2011 16:51; Written by Daniel Elombah

Hon Justice Dahiru Musdapher (Chief Justice of Nigeria)

The avowed intention of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher to reform the country's Supreme Court was called into question by a seemingly innocuous event at the Supreme Court yesterday morning. As narrated by a Nigerian Lawyer and women activist, Carol Aijie: “I was at the Supreme Court today 9am-12pm (17/11/11) for the Governors tenure elongation appeal. Those Lawyers at the Supreme Court today

Between Okey Ndibe and Valentine Obienyem

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Saturday, 05 November 2011 19:06; Written by Daniel Elombah

Of dozens of private email I received on my article; 'I wish I were Okey Ndibe', two stands out; that from Professor Pius Adesanmi, and Mr Chibuzor Obiakor, Senior Legislative Aide to Senator Chris Ngige. I reproduce them below because of the salient points expressed therein followed by my short comments. By the way, "I Wish I were Okey Ndibe", was my take on the swift reactions to Okey Ndibe's highly critical article titled, “High-Paid

EFCC: Thugs or Law?

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Thursday, 03 November 2011 10:59; Written by Daniel Elombah

On Wednesday October 26 2011, Mr. Emeka Ugwuonye was at FCT high court holding at Apo before Justice Suleiman Belgore with his lawyers, family and friends for the ruling on the case of contempt against EFCC with respect to his continued detention long after meeting the bail conditions given by the court on a pending case of criminal charge brought against him by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes

I wish I were Okey Ndibe

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Thursday, 27 October 2011 12:31; Written by Daniel Elombah

It has often been said that the greatest tribute you can pay a writer is to criticise his works. If so, then right now Professor Okey Ndibe will be smiling smugly to himself. Which newspaper columnist will not be happy to know that his State Governor and his Senator goes to bed every night worried about what he, (the writer), had published in his column, and wakes up daily, wondering about, what he (the writer) will come

Nigeria Economic Update: 24/10/11

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Published on Monday, 24 October 2011 15:22; Written by Daniel Elombah

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says Nigerian government revenue rose 41 percent in the second quarter to 2.43 trillion naira ($15.5 billion) from a year earlier. Income from oil, representing 78 percent of total revenue, climbed 47 percent year-on-year to 1.89 trillion naira and exceeded the 2011 budget estimate by half, the Abuja-based CBN said in its second-quarter review of the economy, dated Oct. 14 2011 and published today on its

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