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By Chukwuma Soludo Although there is no single definition of fraud, the online definitions that come to mind as one reads Nasir el-Rufai’s book (The Accidental Public Servant) is “fraud as course of deception, an intentional concealment, omission, or perversion of truth”, or “an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual”. I know el-Rufai as a ...

A good proportion of young people today were taught from primary school that agriculture is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy. Agricultural Science as a subject is part of our educational curriculum and therefore taught at all levels of education. In spite of the constant emphasis on agriculture as a core aspect of the Nigerian economy in paper, the sector ...

Second tenured Finance Minister, Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, parted ways with former President Olusegun Obasanjo because of her removal as the Chairman of the Economic Team of the government while she was in London negotiating with London Club. Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, made this disclosure in his just released controversial memoir -The Accidental ...

Former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has tendered an unreserved apology to the Christian Community and those who feel offended for defiling Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene via a re-tweet on his tweeter page. It would be recalled that in his attempt to defend former Education minister, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili and ridicule president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mallam El-Rufai ...

Unemployment is the primary target of every sensible nation’s economic policy, but our policy makers seem quite content trumpeting and celebrating our jobless growth. Nationally, at least two in every five able-bodied Nigerians willing and able to work has no job. Income inequality is another serious problem. According to the National Bureau of Statistics NBS, in 2010 65% of Nigeria’s ...