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Hajiya Sefiya Hassan Akere, the foster mother of former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, is dead. Though she died on Thursday, at the age of 101 after a brief illness, the announcement was made on Saturday by family members. One of late Akere’s children, Alhaji Dattijo Aliyu, Director General of the Niger State Millennium Development […]

In solidarity with the over 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria since 14th April, shouts of “bring back our girls” filled South Africa’s Union Buildings, venue of President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration on Saturday, when Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan arrived at the venue. Jonathan attended the event alongside 19 other heads of state. According South Africa’s authority, […]

Another bomb explosion has rocked Angwan Rukuba area of Jos North local government of Plateau State, killing three people and injuring the three others. www.www.aso.rocks search engine learnt that explosion, which was intended for a televison viewing center occurred at about 9:18pm, during champions league final match between, Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid. Mr Chris […]

An illustration from Henry Stanley’s search for Dr. David Livingstone in Africa will further shed light and help us grasp the significance of blood covenant. You see, in the late 19th century, Europeans and Americans were deeply fascinated by the “Dark Continent” of Africa and its many mysteries. Thus, in August of 1865, one of […]

Chairman Royce, Ranking Member Engel, thank you for calling us together to address the deeply disturbing abductions of over 270 school girls in northern Nigeria by the terrorist organization Boko Haram some five weeks ago. The global community has been horrified by this barbarous act. Within the context of the U.S. government response, the Department […]

Ever since its inception, Obafemi Awolowo University has been a source of personal progression for the innumerable young men and women who have swam to her shores, providing them with opportunities and hopes irrespective of background, tribe and social status. The greatest greatness in Great Ife is the opportunity to achieve our individual greatness irrespective […]

As President Jonathan, jets off to Pretoria, South Africa for high-level discussions with other African Heads of State and Government on combating terrorism in Africa.The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni has berated President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria over his inability to effectively combat insurgency and terrorism in the country. Museveni, who played an active role […]

  As a Muslim, I feel personally embarrassed by the kind of evil that Boko Haram has perpetrated in the name of my religion. The tragic snatching of the Chibok schoolgirls appears to be the tipping point in Nigeria’s battle with Boko Haram. What started as a river of national rage has grown into one […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has on Friday morning, handed the document containing the 2014 budget to the Minister of Finance and co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Director of Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, for implementation. According to his spokesman, Reuben Abati, the president signed the 2014 budget ― passed by the […]

The loud but needless controversy over the aborted visit by President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok in Borno State to meet with some of the parents of the over 200 abducted schoolgirls in the town, is yet another needless and contrived distraction against the backdrop of the supercilious Boko Haram insurgency and the embarrassingly obvious spectacle […]

In a move to woo residents, especially the poor in Edo State, the chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Chief Dan Orbih, has promised that the party would revive commercial motorcycles if it takes over power in 2015. In a sensitisation programme held in the state on Thursday, Orbih promised to pay […]

It has been universally agreed that northern Nigeria has become a basket case.  The region is now a perfect template for failure in all its ramifications.  Our educational system has failed; the health sector is in shambles; agriculture – hitherto the bedrock of the region’s growth – is virtually non-existent, and commerce and industry has […]