In a criminal court in Panama, the trial of the first batch of 27 individuals accused of money laundering related to the global ‘Panama Papers’ revelations began on Monday, 8th April 2024. The owners of the Mossack-Fonseca legal business, which was central to the major document leak in 2016, are among those on trial. A compilation of 11 million confidential …

In his desperation to always want to hug the headlines as a self-appointed opposition leader, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has allowed himself to be led into a blind alley again by his poorly informed aides. In a press statement signed on his behalf by media assistant, Paul Ibe, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the last election made …

Doubts aside, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to recover from its loss to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the 2015 polls. The PDP lost the presidency and also had its numerical strength shrunken in government houses, national parliament and state assemblies across the nation. For a party which was on a smooth sail during the first 16 …

I’ve paid quite some attention in recent years to espousing the person, ideals and vision of Atiku Abubakar. A colourful and outspoken politician and statesman, he was the first Vice President of the present Fourth Republic who was in office from May 1999 to May 2007 and deputy to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He has been celebrated in places for …

The Presidency and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the weekend engaged exchange of words over the state of the economy, particularly on currency fluctuation and poverty. Atiku, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last year’s general elections, said that the “wrong policies of the (Bola) Tinubu administration continue to cause untold pain …

Amid the soaring rate of inflation, the Presidency on Sunday claimed that Nigerians are enjoying the lowest living costs in Africa. It also said the administration of President Bola Tinubu was focused on “solving our economic and security challenges”, and while admitting that his reforms would cause “immediate pains, but will usher in an era of prosperity in the medium …

The Presidency as described as “reckless” the statement of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s statement accusing President Bola Tinubu of “playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity” and economic challenges. “To imagine that the Commander-in-Chief is on a so-called private visit while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for …

A spokesman for the campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in last year’s presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Barrister Daniel Bwala has refuted claims that his declared support for President Bola Tinubu portrayed a betrayal to his former principal. “It’s absolute nonsense for somebody to say because I said I will support President Bola Tinubu, therefore, I …

Leadership is not a pleasure but a deep and heavy responsibility – George Orwell From the get-go, he set his eyes on the horizon, visualizing the big portrait that would later show him to the world as a leader, mentor, politician, businessman, and fulfilled family man. The journey was often punctuated by bumps, some of which were big enough to …

His best efforts to observe his birthday quietly as has been his preference over time differed from the thinking of many others. I had indeed asked him two weeks before the date if he would approve of a public presentation of my handy, newly published compendium of essays on him, as part of the event. He intoned that the President …