Just take the phrase: “impending” in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen – as seemingly absolute situations become redeemable and what originally appears impossible could be…
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BILL GATES AS “A WAILING WAILER” – REUBEN ABATI
“I do not enjoy speaking to you this bluntly when you have been gracious enough to invite me here…” – Bill Gates. Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, friend of Nigeria and one of the richest men in the world was…
NIGERIA, ECOWAS AND THE MOROCCO QUESTION
TUESDAY WITH REUBEN ABATI I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to see how Morocco with its colour-coded cities remains very much an organized, efficient…
SOYINKA AND NIGERIA’S DINNER WITH THE DEVIL – REUBEN ABATI
Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria be fixed?” The Nobel Laureate…
LAGOS STATE AND THE POLITICS OF TAXATION- REUBEN ABATI
The government of Lagos state seems to be currently in the eye of the storm over its introduction of a law, a property tax as it were, known as the Land Use Charge Act of 2018, which repeals a similar…
Reuben Abati released from EFCC’s custody
The EFCC has granted bail to Reuben Abati after spending four days in their custody explaining details of the N50million he got from ex-NSA, Sambo Dasuki.