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There will be uninterrupted supply of petroleum products during the forthcoming yuletide season and beyond all over the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) assured on Wednesday. According to Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Engr. Andrew Yakubu who was speaking in Abuja at the commissioning of customised P-56 Hydraulic Platform designed to combat eventual […]

My original intention this week was to write a sequel to the piece on the challenge of youth engagement; but i had to suspend that to address something else that has gotten me so worked up in the past few days! Nevertheless in the next couple of days i will still get round to the […]

nPDP, the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, has described the continued refusal of the Presidency to recognise Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) as unfortunate, dangerous, unjustifiable, regrettable and unacceptable. The Presidency had reiterated this position while justifying the absence of President Goodluck […]

Pope Francis took the United Nations General Assembly in New York by storm (and by surprise).  There was no entourage of aides.  According to the official United Nations programme, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was to be the last speaker but even before he finished his five minutes address, most of the press […]

Friday Njengo, a member of the Golden Eaglets team that played the qualifiers for the 2013 CAF African Youth Championship, has died. Njengo died on Sunday night at the National Hospital, Abuja. He had been in intensive care unit of the hospital for almost a year, since he sustained fatal injuries in a car crash. Confirming the death, […]

The Lagos State Government is searching for an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) who was caught on camera receiving bribe from a car owner alleged to have committed a traffic offence some days ago. The officer, Michael Ekundayo, was caught on camera soliciting the bribe while sitting at the passenger’s side […]

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will leave Abuja early Wednesday for London where he is scheduled to preside over a three-day meeting of Nigeria’s Honourary International Investors’ Council. He will return to Abuja at the weekend. According to Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, issues on the agenda of the meeting include […]

Had President Goodluck Jonathan turned up for the presentation of the 2014 budget proposal to a joint sitting of the Senate and Federal House of Representatives on Tuesday, he would have earned the ignominious record of being the first Nigerian President to be booed within the hallowed chamber. This is the primary reason he failed […]

If you ever dream of a country where her leaders are birds of a feather, where followers pray for their leaders fall­ ­– check Nigeria. With different ethnic groups, with many religions and even varying political school of thoughts, our leaders still come together, fashion out ways of looting the country’s treasury. I wonder why […]

The New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) has urged Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed D. Abubakar to prove his denial before the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs that the order for disruption of the 3rd November 2013 meeting of the G7 Governors at the Kano State Government Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, was from him. […]

As university undergraduates, we were taught that the main function of a political party was the organisation of people for the purpose of securing power.  The people, so organised, must share certain goals in common as well as commitment and determination to pursue such goals.  For effective organisation, the party must have a constitution, rules […]

With the tributes that have been pouring in across all strata of the society locally and internationally, there is no doubt that the academic world in particular and Nigeria in general has lost one of its most distinguished academician, author, foremost humanist and unionist with the death of Professor Festus Iyayi in the unfortunate accident […]