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A five-day Global Interpol Seminar on Anti-Corruption, Financial Crimes and Asset Recovery, with support from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) will hold next week Monday at the EFCC Academy, Karu, Abuja. The international capacity building programme for anti-corruption operatives is expected to draw about 50 participants from nine Central Africa countries and 16 […]

 Six out of the 24 former Niger Delta militants studying at the Peoples University, Russia, have been withdrawn after they were fingered for masterminding last week’s protest at the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow, which culminated in the arrest of 16 Nigerian students by the Russian authorities. The students staged the protest at the embassy to […]

Leading figures of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have contacted President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan about postponing the reconciliation meeting scheduled for next week Monday postponed. At a caucus meeting last night at the Adamawa State Government Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, it was discovered that the date of the proposed peace meeting clashes […]

As part of intervention initiative in the focus area of health, Dangote Foundation on October 1, 2013, laid the foundation for the construction of 1,000 bed capacity ultramodern medical theatre complex and a diagnostic laboratory within Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano State The ultramodern medical theatre complex which has been named Mariya Sanusi Dantata […]

Yesterday’s announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan of a committee to devise modalities for the convocation of a National Conference is a welcome development. Issuing a statement on behalf of the upper chamber, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, praised the president for conceptualising a national conference that […]

After years of trying to avoid the issue, Sovereign National Conference (SNF) has bubbled up again in Nigeria. Against its repression by mass psychological denial of the insurmountable problems bedeviling Nigeria, SNC has still managed to rise to the surface. Against its suppression by sectional and personal interest which benefit from the people’s woes and […]

National Chairman of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Baraje has lamented the state of the nation at 53 years, saying it is a thing of great regret that the country has all but crumbled.   In his Independence Day message to Nigerians, Baraje lamented the woes of the country’s […]

The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA needs a new approach to crowd control within its ports premises. Crowd control is critical to NPA’s compliance with the International Ships and Ports Facility Security, ISPS code, which ultimate goal is to rid the ports of miscreants and every other conceivable threat to security at the ports. Speaking during […]

Chairman of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Abdulmumi Jibrin was wrong on his claim that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) did not remit N320.654bn to the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, the Corporation has said. “We refer to a statement credited to Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Finance, alleging that the […]

Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) all over the country have been directed to commence an indefinite strike beginning from today, the occasion of Nigeria’s 53rd Independence Anniversary. According to NARD, the decision to totally withdraw the services of its members from 8am on Tuesday is in protest of Federal Government’s failure […]

Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke was at the Synagogue Church to be delivered of an unnamed negative spirit that has prevented him from getting married, it has been revealed. Jim Iyke had accompanied the sick mother of a friend to the church, only to be told by the church ministers that he has remained unmarried for […]

Other than the usual congratulations, platitudes, expressions of joy and offerings of thanks to God I believe that as we celebrate our nation’s 53rd independence anniversary it is time for us to bare our minds in a candid and frank manner and to really sit down and think. During her election campaign just a couple […]