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The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division, Lagos, Major General Tamubomiebi Dibi, has said that it was an incisive allegation that armed soldiers were dispatched to the Bourdillon home of Senator Bola Tinubu. Dibi described it as a mere figment of imagination of anyone to contemplate that armed soldiers had been deployed to Tinubus’ house. […]

The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has condemned the postponement of 2015 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying such a move could lead to military coup. The election was earlier scheduled to commence on 14th February. It will now commence on28th March because of security reasons cited by […]

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), has described as a hoax, claims by President Jonathan’s government that a high speed Abuja-Lagos rail service will commence running in three years time. APCPCO said in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu that though the envisaged Lagos-Abuja line as proposed […]

Amidst rumors that  2015 general elections will not hold and that the Jonathan administration plans to hand over to an interim government on May 29, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke has said that there is no provision for any interim government in Nigeria’s constitution. Adoke made the clarification […]

For Nigeria’s military, times have never been this challenging. Plagued on the one hand by the fiendish activities of some twisted minds that have taken over a vast cut of the country’s northeast region, it is on the other assailed first by the charge of corruption against its leadership by no less a group than […]

On Wednesday 11th February 2015, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was live on air on a Presidential media chat to address Nigerians and the international community on the state of the nation. As expected, President Goodluck Jonathan didn’t disappoint Nigerians who have become accustomed to his character of being […]

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on a number of issues including why he accepted the shift in the date of election Below is a transcript of the interview: Can I ask you first your reaction to the delay in this election by six weeks and […]

The temptation to give up on Nigeria is common among Nigerians that have spoken and written a lot about the good that is a possible experience for Nigeria. But there is a greater passion, a nobler one, to expect and envision a nation where citizens consciously refuse to examine one another through the colored glasses of […]

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a police siege on the residence of the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Shehu Garba, saying the action is in line with the on-going harassment and intimidation of the party’s leadership by security agencies. In a statement issued […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday evening told Nigerians that he was not consulted before the country’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the general elections earlier scheduled for February this year. This is against insinuations that the election postponement had some political undertone. Jonathan, who answered questions from journalists at a special […]

The people of Imo State and Nigerians in general woke up Wednesday, 28 January 2015 to read frightening stories in the media on how former Governor Ikedi Ohakim assaulted and battered his friend, Dr. Viatlis Orikeze Ajumbe. Some of the reports in the newspapers said Chief Ohakim wanted to kill Dr. Ajumbe. Despite that the […]

FBN Capital has maintained that in spite of the challenges currently being faced within the sub-Saharan Africa Oil and Gas sector with production of shale oil in the world market, the reduction of oil imports from Nigeria by the USA and the global drop in crude oil prices, there is still hope for the oil […]