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Aba! Our Aba. A town commercially and economically endowed that is likened as the Japan of Africa, whose residents could fabricate anything to mimic its originality. Aba (the Enyimba City) is cosmopolitan, meaning that it harbours a mixture of ethnic groups; from Igbo the natives to Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, Efik, Ibibio, Kalabari, Opobo, Beni, Tiv, Idoma, […]

Cross River State Government has condemned in strong terms, the purported protest by the Football Association of Malawi Chief Executive Officer, Suzgo Nyeirenda, alleging spurious claims of security challenges and substandard hotels ahead of their last Group stage World Cup Qualifier between Nigeria and Malawi slated for 7th September 2013 in Calabar. In a statement […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday denied ever confirming that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and some other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors had applied for registration of a new party to be named Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM).  In a letter dated Thursday 15th August 2013 and addressed to Editor of Daily Independent […]

One time Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Benin, Isu-Ochiora Okogeri was on Wednesday arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Ekiadolor on the allegations of demanding and accepting a bribe of N100,000 from a female student.  The offence was alleged to have been committed in December 2012 while the accused wanted to […]

The military on Wednesday announced that it had killed the second-in-command of the Boko Haram sect saying this was achieved while its officials repelled an insurgent attack earlier this month. A statement by the military said there had been a bounty of 25 million naira ($156,000, 117,000 euros) on the head of Momodu Bama, who […]

Deputy Director, Operations of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Tunde Lemo on Wednesday disclosed that the bank would take delivery of new naira notes for circulation before the end of September. Earlier, CBN had expected the circulation of the new naira notes by June, while the smaller denomination notes (N5, N10, N20, and […]

Corrupt Police officers will be identified and replaced with fresh recruits in order to sanitise the country’s security system, Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar has said. Speaking during the second Conference of Heads of Zonal and State Criminal Investigation Departments in Abuja, Abubakar pledged his determination to expunge all corrupt officers currently in the […]

The statement issued by Reuben Abati the official spokesperson for the presidency on 11TH of August 2013 criticizing the interim chairman of the APC for describing the Jonathan government as a “kindergarten presidency”, is paltry, whining and falls in the category of world class political tantrums. In a most predictable fashion, the rabid nature of […]

Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesome Wike is a threat to democracy and should be sacked for his utterances which border on breaching peace, incitement and partisan campaign, Rivers State chapter of the National Councillors Forum of Nigeria, said on Wednesday. In a release issued in Port Harcourt and co-signed by Chairman of the group, Hon. […]

Sad things happen in our country. And there are days I simply turn my attention away from the sad happenstance either as President, Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL) or as a private citizen. But not the sad thing that happened in Benin-city yesterday: the public humiliation and the show-trial of the poor teacher who couldn’t […]

I always knew trouble was brewing. From August 2 when the media published Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi’s letter to President Goodluck Jonathan threatening “reciprocity or reprisal” ostensibly against south-westerners in Anambra because Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola “deported and dumped” 72 street beggars in the state. Lagos Government had claimed they were […]

The ongoing nationwide industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may not end soon, as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said that the Federal Government does not have the resources to meet the union’s financial demands.  The minister disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking at the annual meeting […]Read More