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Chinese Loan

Failed Abuja CCTV project: Court orders Buhari govt to account for $460m Chinese loan

TLPMay 21, 2023 0

A Federal High Court in Abuja last week ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “account for the spending of $460 million Chinese loan to fund the failed Abuja!-->…
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Scandals

Okonjo-Iweala denies diverting $1.1bn China loan

TLPAug 17, 2015 2

The immediate past Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has denied the allegation that a substantial part of $1.1billion loan obtained from the China-EXIM (Export-Import) for a…
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I’ve got a story – but I can’t tell you about it because of threats from the good fellas June 3, 2023
There is something I want to share with you, a terrifying story about money, power, abuse, loss, cynicism, corruption, secrets and lies. But I can’t tell you anything about it. If I do, they will destroy me and my family. It’s a story of crime and flabby gangsters, conmen and shysters, all the worse for […]
Andrea Martin-Banks
WHY WRITER’S BLOCK CAN BE THE WAY AHEAD FOR TRUE CREATIVITY June 2, 2023
Just a few thoughts about writer’s block … I was standing in the gentle rain next to my old glinting limousine outside my rented cottage in the heart of once-merry Ol’ England. The cottage has stood for 400 years next to a lake where owls screech at 3am. I was having a cigarette. And I […]
Andrea Martin-Banks
WHY DYLAN IS POSITIVELY NORTH STREET! May 31, 2023
Ooh eck! In the 60s he was booed, heckled and called Judas in Manchester – then the BBC wiped Madhouse tape clean! But now he might be in Corrie… Ol’ Bob apparently likes nothing more in the evening than curling up in his rock’n’roll slippers and catching up with Coronation Street. And now the makers […]
Andrea Martin-Banks