Sufuyan Ojeifo, Author at The News Chronicle

Contemplating Obaseki’s Long, Divisive Goodbye

Sufuyan Ojeifo Sep 19, 2020

In the human story, goodbyes are usually simple, touching transitions. But deploying quirky hubris, cant and divisiveness, the outgoing Edo State governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki has ignobly tried to change the narrative. I was reading the book of Daniel Chapter 5 earlier in the week and the story of King Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar, who […]

Edo governorship poll: Time to know who owns the land

Sufuyan Ojeifo Sep 17, 2020

When the legendary musician and revolutionary singer, Sonny Okosuns, dropped the hit song, “Papa’s Land”, little did he know that the song would capture the public mood in his beloved Edo State at this time. In a few days, precisely on Saturday, September 19, 2020, we, the good people of Edo State, will go to […]

Obaseki’s bigotry blights Edo guber politics

Sufuyan Ojeifo Aug 27, 2020

The September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State should have been a family affair. A “referendum” of sorts or a “no-contest” scenario in which everybody, especially in the former All Progressives Congress (APC), (that was prior to the orchestration of the internal crisis and subsequent defection by Governor Godwin Obaseki), would have taken for […]

Review of 2020 Federal Budget, not intended to introduce austerity measures, says Agba

Sufuyan Ojeifo Jun 15, 2020

Govt tackling pandemic, recession with fiscal, monetary stimulus packages Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has assured Nigerians that the revision of the 2020 budget by the Federal Government was not intended to impose austerity measures on them. Agba said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was looking at measures […]

FG Inaugurates Technical Working Groups To Develop Thematic Areas Of Medium And Long- Terms National Development Plans

Sufuyan Ojeifo Jun 12, 2020

The Federal Government has inaugurated Technical Working Groups (TWGs) for the development of the thematic areas of the two new Medium-Term National Development Plans (MTNDP 2020 – 2025 and MTNDP 2026-2030) and the long-term national development plan, christened “Nigeria Agenda 2050”. Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, who performed […]

Nigerian Government is committed to combating violence against women, girls- Agba

Sufuyan Ojeifo Jun 06, 2020

…commends effort of UN, EU through Spotlight Initiative Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, says that the Nigerian government is committed to the global effort at decreasing violence against women and girls by intensifying collaboration with international partners in the fight against the scourge. Agba restated the commitment on […]

Treasury House Fire: Nigeria’s financial records are intact, says Agba

Sufuyan Ojeifo Apr 09, 2020

Nigerians can, at least, heave a sigh of relief, as the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has confirmed that the nation’s financial records were not lost in the fire that gutted some offices in the Treasury House. The Treasury House, in Abuja’s Central Business District, is the multistorey […]

TRIBUTE: Clem Agba, a daring team leader, @ 56

Sufuyan Ojeifo Mar 28, 2020

He is no less a child of providence, wielding power and privilege with fetching humility and exemplary focus. He has demonstrated with his life’s trajectory that royalty, economics, philanthropy and politics fundamentally address the transformation of the human condition for good. As yet, he unabashedly maintains this unique, philosophical footing in his private and public […]

Magaji was a loyal party man, says Prince Agba

Sufuyan Ojeifo Jan 14, 2020

Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has described the death of former Deputy State Chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Otunba Charlton Usman Magaji, as painful, shocking and diminishing. Prince Agba said Magaji’s death had depleted the tribe of loyal party men in […]

Group challenges Obaseki on threat to probe Benin Storm Water Master Plan

Sufuyan Ojeifo Nov 18, 2019

A group, named Edo Transparency Initiative (ETI), has called out Governor Godwin Obaseki on his threat to probe the multi-billion naira Benin Storm Water Master Plan conceived by the administration of former Governor Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole. Minister of State for Budget and National Planning and former Commissioner of Environment and Public Utilities in the State, Prince […]