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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has put the blame for last week’s blockade of the Rivers State Government House squarely on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying his unbridled disposition towards cheap political vendetta has pushed him to commit impunity and unconstitutionality perhaps more than any other President in the country’s history. In a statement issued in […]

Five months ago I left the PDP and I told the world why I chose to do so. I also said that the party had hit the rocks and that it was a sinking ship. Few believed me at the time but today even the most chronic of doubting Thomas’ have changed their minds. The […]

Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan will be awarded an honorary fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria at its 31st Annual Convocation ceremony scheduled for Thursday, 19th September 2013 at the college’s premises at Ijanikin, Lagos. According to President of the college, Professor Victor C. Wakwe who made the revelation on Saturday, […]

Members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) will embark on a seven-day fasting and prayer for quick resolution of the ongoing industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), beginning from Monday, 16th of September 2013.  According to National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, the spiritual intervention will be made due […]

For the genuinely selective compatriots as well as foreign observers who are immune to delusion, the painful hint of a far-reaching implosion is building up to its climax. All impartial submissions on Nigeria’s destiny over the past couple of years have repeatedly come up with a forecast that holds out terror and fear, instead of […]

Even by his own loquacious standards for verbal diarrhea, the misguided verbal ejaculation of former president Olusegun Obasanjo against Mrs. Farida Waziri; former chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was a fundamental lack of expression, which set a new low, in what, unfortunately, has become the unedifying trademark of the talkative former […]

Editor: The recently released Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) report for 2011, which claimed that Ekiti State is among the most heavily indebted states is inaccurate, incorrect and political. For a Federal Government Agency to be bandying a 2011 report close to the end of 2013 (a period of two years) shows the level of statistical […]

 Last week, nine Nigeria Ministers were fired, victims of the power struggle within and around the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Regrettably, the Ministers were not relieved of their posts in order to strengthen the cabinet. Were that the case, several more Ministers ought to have been shown the door.  It was particularly shocking to […]

News of last week’s shakeup in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) did not surprise many. As a matter of fact, it was good news in some quarters, except that the axing coincided with the time President Jonathan needed to play some rough tackles, meaning that some of those who fell by the way side may […]

Popular faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as other prominent Nigerians on Saturday described the death of former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, as both shocking and a huge loss. Condoling with the people of Ondo State and State Governor, Segun Mimiko, the NGF led by […]

Enugu Zonal Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Chika Nwaka says the commission has concluded plans to prosecute Deputy Commissioner of Police in the Ebonyi Police Command, Istifanus Shettima for allegedly assaulting some officers of the commission.  Speaking on Saturday at a public sensitisation rally on the use of Speed Limit Devices in Abakaliki, Nwaka […]

Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar on Saturday married Zarha, daughter of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ibrahim Bunu.  Abubakar lost his wife, Maryam, last year. The Islamic wedding, better known as Fatiha, took place at the National Mosque, Abuja and was conducted by Chief Imam of the mosque, Ustaz Musa Mohammed. The reception […]