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Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is […]

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has refuted the reports in some section of the media that the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is planning to stop the use of the permanent voter cards and the electronic card readers for the forthcoming elections. The minister said in a statement released […]

Assistant Inspector-General of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu is armed and dangerous! It is necessary to serve this warning to the people of Lagos and Ogun States over whose security of lives and property Mbu has been given immediate charge. Mbu did not wait to set down his heavy luggage trucked from Port-Harcourt to Lagos via […]

Insurgents in Nigeria have abducted the Vice Chairman of Hong Local Government Area in Adamawa State, Bijida Yakubu, Police in the state has said. The abduction occurred when the insurgents attacked Gayafa village. Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Othman Abubakar, who confirmed the incident, added that three vigilante members who were with him […]

The Senate on Wednesday postponed the screening and confirmation of nominees of President Goodluck Jonathan to fill the vacancies in his cabinet after receiving series of petitions and opposition by some senators against former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro. Right from the day he was listed as one of the eight nominees, some […]

Supporters who had gathered at the Everlasting Arms Ministries Church in East London for the presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress expressed surprise that the party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, was absent. But the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, explained that the rally was not part of Buhari’s itinerary. According […]

My attention has been drawn this morning to an article entitled: “Jonathan Replies Soludo over “missing N30 trillion” claim”— extracting from Mr. President’s interview as published by Thisday newspaper.   ThisDay quoted Mr. President as saying that “Soludo said that under Ngozi’s watch they stole N30 trillion” but that since the sum of the federal […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday evening said despite Boko Haram’s reversion to suicide bombing of soft targets, the days of insurgency in Nigeria remains numbered. Jonathan, who reacted to separate attacks on a motor park and a business centre in Potiskum, Yobe and Kano states respectively, said the new suicide bombing tactics by the Boko […]

General Momoh, by now as you stand or sit alone, probably in your residence or other form of private area, you may have heard the respective words of Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan,   Governor Ayodele Fayose, and ex-Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, telling the world that you, Brigadier-General Aliyu Momoh, were in that hotel […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent separate open letters to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Aminu Wali, and the Chairperson, Diaspora Committee, Nigeria House of Representatives Ms Abike Dabiri over the situation of Nigerians living in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the open letters dated 20 February 2015 and signed by SERAP’s Executive Director, […]

The Dangote Group has expressed optimism that with its ongoing agricultural projects across the country, Nigeria is on its way of being self-sufficient in the areas of food production. The Group reiterated its determination to support the Federal Government in its effort to revolutionize the agricultural sector and make Nigeria self-dependence in the areas of […]

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the Laws” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1714-1812). “I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and […]