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The Ondo State government has announced that N3.574 billion was allocated to it from the Federation account for the month of June. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade announced this in Akure on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Speaking with newsmen in his office, the commissioner said the announcement is in fulfilment of government […]

Austin Tam- George, Rivers State commissioner for Information and Communication, has called on the federal government to, as a matter of urgency, disband the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, under the leadership of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Tam-George, in a statement issued shortly after the cancellation of the rerun election on Monday, July 25, 2016, scheduled […]

Reminding us once again that nothing is off limits to the Clintons when it comes to winning elections, Politico earlier today wrote about Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s (D) efforts to register 200,000 ex-felons to vote in November.  For reference, 200,000 is over 5% of the 3.8mm people who voted in the Presidential race in 2012 […]Read More

The mainstream media alleges that Russia was behind the hack of Hillary Clinton’s emails. The media is parading out the usual suspects alleged experts to back up this claim. Washington’s Blog asked the highest-level NSA whistleblower in history, William Binney – the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who […]Read More

Update: Well that didn’t last long… Livesquawk: Japan Ministry of Finance say it is not true they are considering 50yr bonds – debunking earlier WSJ story –Rtrs Who could have seen that denial coming? Has the BOJ denied the trial balloon yet — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 27, 2016 *  *  * USDJPY just spiked back […]

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd (1957) Politics is entertainment. It is a […]Read More

Over the weekend, Wikileaks posted a treasure trove of emails from various members of the Democrat party which has laid ruin to any hope for civility at the DNC’s convention in Philadelphia.  That said, Hillary’s campaign seems to be even more concerned about what may be leaked next.    Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary’s communication director, recently […]Read More

Submitted by Ben Hunt via Salient Partners’ Epsilon Theory blog, Hermann Göring and the Nazis didn’t burn the Reichstag down in 1933. They left that to a simpleton Communist patsy (that’s him in the photo; quite the ur-terrorist, no?). But Göring and the Nazis used the Reichstag fire as their excuse to arrest thousands, establish […]Read More

Something ‘odd’ is going on. Amid the plethora of 11-foot-tall-men multiple-standard deviation beats in recent economic data, the Citi Macro Surprise Index did something it has never done before – it rose for 21 days straight – breaking the last 5 years trends of seasonal dumps (into mid-year) and pumps (into fiscal year-end)… Consider that […]

Authored by Bonner & Partners’ Bill Bonner, (Annotated by Acting-Man’s Pater Tenebrarum), Duped and Distorted When you start thinking about what money is and how it works, you face isolation, shunning, and possible incarceration. The subject is so slippery – like a bead of mercury on a granite countertop – you become frustrated… and then… […]Read More

Founder of Nairametrics, @ugodre was on CNBC Africa on Tuesday, discussing the Monetary Policy Rate, the implication of a recession in Nigeria and the new CBN directive to commercial banks to sell forex to BDC’s. Follow this link to watch video; The post above and its ensuing comments, if any, is purely the opinion of […]

Ikpeazu Gets Lifeline As Court of Appeal Maintains Status Quo Embattled Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu got a huge relief on Tuesday as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja told him to retain his seat pending the time the court will hear his appeal challenging the judgment of a Federal High Court which removed […]