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I am a relatively young man, I know little about history and I won’t even pretend to lie or conjure up irrelevant and funny stories about the past just to deceive people as some others have tried to do for the last few weeks. Besides which Chief Femi Fani-kayode has fed us enough history for […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned what it called the daylight vote robbery by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election rerun at the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State last Saturday. The APC said the ‘robbery’ shows that the PDP, whether old or new, is irredeemable. Rising from its National Executive […]

Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by journalist Tukur Mamu’s arrest yesterday at his office in the northern city of Kaduna by plain-clothes police, who initially took him to the city’s Criminal Investigation Department (CDI) headquarters. Mamu, who publishes the Kaduna-based weekly, Desert Herald, was then reportedly taken to the federal capital, Abuja, where he […]

After several false starts by Turai & co. mimics to re-enact the tragi-comedy that played out during the last days of the late president Umaru Musa ‘Yar Adu’a by Turai, his wife and her associates, Hauwa Danbaba Suntai, the mini Turai, is trying hard to re-enact the same thing done by Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare […]

The hope of an amicable resolution of the PDP crisis may have been foreclosed, Wednesday, as the 7 Governors, 22 senators and 57 members of the Federal House of Representatives who have expressed support for the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will have their offices declared vacant, National Chairman of the party, […]

The Nigerian Army has announced the retirement senior officers who have served the mandatory 35 years or who are due by virtue of their age on rank. According to the Army, the retirement is in line with the terms and conditions of service of the Armed Forces, and the affected officers have been told to […]

In my view, notwithstanding the view expressed by Prof. Ben Nwabueze, the major challenge facing President Goodluck Jonathan with regards to the 2015 presidential election, more than his electability, is his eligibility. Given the provisions of the constitution and the judgments of the Supreme Court on the matter, I see a clear constitutional impediment against […]

Dangote Industries Limited will today sign a loan agreement with a consortium of both local and international banks to the tune of $3.3billion for the purpose of constructing the biggest Petroleum Oil Refinery & Petrochemical/ Fertilizer Plants  in Nigeria. The plants, which will cost a total of $9 billion will generate up to 9,500 direct […]

Editor: “We, the members of the House of Representatives under the platform of the New PDP, hereby congratulate our leaders on the emergence of the new party. “Although a sizeable number of our members could not append their signatures because of their unavailability in the country, they will do so immediately on arrival. We the […]

Some senators on Tuesday had a close-door session with embattled Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi over the lingering crisis that has engulfed the State. Currently, the State House of Assembly has not been sitting since the fracas that broke out in the House between lawmakers loyal to the Governor and the five renegades considered […]

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih on Tuesday admitted that leading figures of the party who broke away on Saturday have valid reasons to have taken the action. However, in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, Anenih expressed hope that the rebels would return to the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has responded to growing media reports alleging series of financial malpractice against Chairman Attahiru Jega and other leading officers. According to the commission, these reports are mere campaigns of calumny ahead of the 2015 general elections that will not be allowed to dent the commission’s resolve to conduct free […]