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In my last piece titled Abraham’s Blessing are Mine (IV), I said, “in order to fully grasp what is rightfully ours, it is vital we study the life of Abraham and find out how God treated him, because that’s how God has promised to treat us.” Note Christ brought us to God through Abraham and that …Christ […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the timetable for the 2015 general elections, as well as the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States. In a statement released in Abuja late Friday night, INEC fixed the presidential and National Assembly elections for 14th February 2015. The statement, signed by Secretary of the Commission, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu, […]

The declaration by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, that the era of ballot box snatching in Nigerian elections, is over because such practices will render the votes of erring political parties invalid is worrisome and raises more questions than answers. Electoral malpractices have become a recurring decimal in […]

Armed officials of the State Security Service (SSS) on Friday stormed the Abuja residence of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in a bid to arrest him over his recent comments on the 2015 general elections.  El-Rufai’s had said that there would be […]

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the directive by the APC National Executive Committee that their members in the National Assembly should stall the passage of the 2014 budget and the confirmation of new service chiefs as a clear and direct call for anarchy and a vindication the ruling party’s earlier position that […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the directive by the APC National Executive Committee that their members in the National Assembly should stall the passage of the 2014 budget and the confirmation of new service chiefs as a clear and direct call for anarchy and a vindication the ruling party’s earlier position that the […]

Human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo has written to the comptroller-general of the Nigerian prisons Services to complain of plans to kill Charles Okah by prison officials. In the letter, Keyamo alleged that prison officials are denying Okah, who is being held in Kuje prisons on allegations of masterminding the 1st October 2010 Independence Day bombing, […]

A long battle between Sir Victor Umeh and Chief Maxi Okwu for the chairmanship of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, may have come to an end with the former shown the exit door from the party’s chairmanship he coveted from Chief Chekwas Okorie since 2003. Widely known as the founder of the party, Okorie was […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will emerge victorious from the 2015 presidential elections despite the challenges currently confronting the party, Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has boasted. Speaking on Thursday during the disbursement of grants for SURE-P Youth Development Programme and the passing out ceremony of Community-based Traffic Vanguard in Minna, Aliyu expressed confidence […]

The All Progressive Congress (APC) ended a meeting of its Interim National Executive Committee on Thursday with a declaration that it had over-stretched its patience in Rivers State while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government of President Goodluck Jonathan has turned Rivers State into a theatre of war, unleashing mayhem on loyalists of the APC. It said […]

The Ojo campus of the Lagos State University (LASU) has been shut down indefinitely by authorities of the university, following a student protest against closure of the school’s registration portal preparatory to the 2012/2013 semester examinations. The unavailability of the portal means that students who have not paid their school fees are barred from doing […]

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State on Thursday condemned the administration of former Governor Gbenga Daniel, after the current State Commissioner for Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun told hundreds gathered at the June 12 Cultural Centre in Abeokuta, the state capital, that the former governor had bought an electrical equipment for N9bn only for the current administration to realise that […]