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Just 14 months to the general elections in Nigeria, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who is believed to be interested in the governorship of Lagos State, states his next political move, in this interview   We all know that so much is happening in the country, what is […]

Nigeria has emerged a member of the United Nations Security Council, alongside Saudi Arabi, Chad, Chile and Lithuania, who also won seats in the election today. All five countries contested unopposed in the election, and will replace Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo on the 15-nation council on 1st January 2013. Expectedly, President Goodluck Jonathan […]

Anti-corruption group, Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) has criticised Nigerian churches for founding tertiary institutions of learning with offerings and tithes of members of the congregation and the going ahead to fix school fees that are way beyond the reach of the very people with whose money the churches were build. According to the group, the situation […]

 Insinuations in some quarters that the recent spate of divestments from certain onshore oil blocks by some international oil companies (IOC) may lead to crisis in the nation’s oil and gas industry have been dispelled by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Speaking to journalists on the margins of the ongoing World Energy Congress in […]

Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed has disclosed that the party would begin the registration of its members nationwide next month. Although Mohammed admitted that the November date is tentative, he revealed that the party has already finalised the process as well as created a format of its […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as the height of insensitivity, the decision of First Lady Patience Jonathan to receive an Honorary Doctorate award in far away South Korea when the country’s public universities have remained shut for many months under the watch of her husband. In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday […]

For the fourth time in five years, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership – the world’s biggest individual prize – was not awarded, because “after careful consideration” the prize committee announced Monday, that there was no worthy recipient; hence there would be no 2013 laureate. Coming just when the African Union (AU) […]

President Jonathan announced on October 1, 2013 his intention to convoke a national conference at which there would be no issues excluded from discussion. He then inaugurated on October 7, 2013 a committee he charged to come up with a framework for the conference. To those that assumed they understood the president, this committee should […]

I am intimately connected to Anambra State. My wife Chukwunonso hails from there. However my interest in Anambra state goes slightly beyond the type an ordinary in-law should have. I love the entertainment of their politics. It stands out as an intriguing theatre of absurdities. Mostly unpredictable, always filled with uncertainty, sometimes violent and often […]

The Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of Mrs. Augusta Douglas-Ayam, the elder sister of Mr. Oronto Douglas, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy. Mrs. Douglas-Ayam was reportedly kidnapped at about 8pm on Monday  in Ogbia, Bayelsa state, by unknown gunmen. The Commissioner of Police, Hilary Opara, who […]

Professor Ben Nwabueze has refuted reports suggesting that he resigned his membership National Conference Advisory Committee because he did not trust President Goodluck Jonathan and failure to appoint him as the  chairman of the committee. The Elder statesman said he quit the committee for health reasons. Hear him: “I cut short my stay in London for medicals […]

The 2013 Abia State Appropriation bill, also called “budget of hope”, which was signed into Law by Gov. T.A Orji on Friday February 4, is not only a desecration of time and hope of our people, but also discouraging. Though, many of us observers of the Gov. Orji government knew that the law was going […]