Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Femi Adesina
Have you heard the news? I’m sure you have. But just in case you haven’t, here’s the news on the hour: After 33 years, the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line and Ancillary Facility Yard has been commissioned for commercial operation.
By Ray Ekpu
It was Augustus Caesar, one of the greatest rulers of the Roman Empire who said, “I met Rome a mud but I left it a city of marble.” It is doubtful if any Nigerian leader, military or civilian, from 1960 till date can truthfully make such a claim about his leadership of Nigeria. Doubtful, very doubtful.
By Dr Dons Eze
No doubt, it is the legitimate right of the Igbo to agitate for an Igbo man or woman to be President of Nigeria in 2023. This is because the first and last time an Igbo man had presided over the affairs of the now sixty years old Nigeria, was about 54 years ago, during the six months ill-fated military regime of General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, from January 15 to July 29, 1966.
By Eze Jude O
Nigerians had endured series of untold economic hardships since the inception of this regime, but none has been as excruciating as the policy a month ago, that reviewed petroleum prices and power tarrif upwards.
By Tunde Rahman
The tension-soaked Edo governorship election may have been concluded with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announcing Governor Godwin Obaseki as the winner of the poll. However, one is not unmindful of the fact that the election may not have been completely over as it were.
By Femi Adesina
There is a story that President Muhammadu Buhari likes to tell. He has done so many times in public and private meetings. It goes thus: “After we got inaugurated into office in 2015, I asked the Governor of Central Bank for the state of our finances. He said no money. I was alarmed, and asked where all the money went. Before then, oil prices had hit 143 dollars per barrel, and stabilized at 100 dollars per barrel for a long time. But I was being told there was no money.
