Once again, the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) finds it necessary to set the public record straight following Senator Ali Ndume’s recent and deliberate misinterpretation of facts regarding Nigeria’s development loans, seemingly aimed at casting aspersions on President Bola Tinubu’s reform agenda. It is disappointing that Ndume, now in his fourth consecutive Senate term, discussed Nigeria’s national debt without …

A mammoth crowd besieged the popular Maiduguri Eye Hospital, located along Damboa Road within the Metropolis, jostling to acquire the mega free Eye treatment and surgery cases related to cataracts, among other related illnesses. Senator Ali Ndume (APC Borno South), in collaboration with the Borno State Government, Nigerians in the Diaspora (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA) and Saudi philanthropists, organised …

The ongoing turmoil in the Senate regarding the removal of Senator Ali Ndume (APC Borno South) as Senate Whip has taken a new turn, with the senator firmly rejecting a proposed office relocation. Ndume was removed from his position as Chief Whip by Senate President Godswill Akpabio following his outspoken comments about the hardships faced by Nigerians. He was subsequently …

Last Wednesday, Nigeria’s upper parliament became a grammar class where semantics, syntax and structure are examined. His Excellency, the Senate President of Nigeria, Godswill Obot Akpabio, suddenly became an emergency interpreter and lexicographer. Akpabio’s interpreter’s dilemma reminds me of Field Marshal Gerald Templer. A senior British Army officer, Templer was best known for the implementation of strategies that heavily contributed …