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A teacher in Edo State was the subject of scorn during Tuesday’s verification of the certificates of primary school teachers in the state. Asked to read a sworn affidavit she tendered as part of her credentials. Mrs. Augusta Odemwingie of Asologun Primary School, Ikpoba Okha Local Government stumbled several times to the consternation of all […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to go to court if he felt libelled by the description of his presidency as a kindergarten presidency by the Interim National Chairman of the APC,Chief Bisi Akande. In a statement issued in Accra on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]

Amnesty International and the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC) have condemned Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola and his administration for embarking on the demolition of the Badia East area of the state without consideration for the rights of the people. The two notable groups on Monday said about 9, 000 were affected […]

Editor: It is quite unfortunate that primary school teachers in Kogi State are passing through a trying time due to non-payment of their salaries. The state government introduced bio-metric capture to ascertain the number of teachers on its payroll, with promise of paying the salary after the exercise. A strike action called by the teachers’ […]

With what I now know about the history of coup plotting in Nigeria, I will never again look at Ikoyi in the same way. I’m now much more attuned to its conspiratorial character, and its bloody, violent past (connected to its status as the seat of post-independence government for three decades); a past we seem […]

If nothing, but for compassionate and humanitarian reasons, the Lagos State government could have been more circumspect, considering the illegality and unconstitutionality of its forced deportation of beggars to their states of origin; as the action violates the fundamental rights of such citizens enshrined in extant sections of the 1999 constitution. Notably, the deportations constitute […]

Allegations by former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory that President Goodluck Jonathan has mastered the politics of ethnicity and religion are untrue, the Presidency said on Sunday.  Speaking in Kaduna during a programme on Liberty Radio on Saturday, El-Rufai had condemned the president for always turning the other way when certain individuals threaten peace […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday described Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has a rude, ill-mannered, uncharitable and hypocritical politician.  Jonathan’s response came after Akande questioned his leadership capabilities, saying: “I do not see President Jonathan as a serious-minded person. Nigeria’s problem today is Jonathan. I had written him twice […]

I happen to share offices in the same premises with one of the zonal offices of th Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN). In the last 9 years they have not bought a newspaper or papers, nor journal, they do manage to have a few meetings and some form of activities happen there from time to […]

In separate verdicts, the African Development Bank (AFDB) and the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) have slammed the Nigerian government for skyrocketing poverty and corruption levels in the country.  While the AFDB expressed pessimism concerning the government’s battle to end poverty by 2015, the CNPP said corruption is a major challenge against the country’s […]

It is President Goodluck Jonathan’s tried and tested style to employ politics of ethnicity and religion to divert the attention of Nigerians from the series of socioeconomic problems of the country, erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory who is now Interim Deputy National Secretary of newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai […]

  Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has accused his enemies of distributing and pasting posters announcing his 2015 ambition to contest for the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria. Residents of Adamawa State woke up to find the presidential election campaign posters bearing the governor’s photograph displayed in major parts of the state capital. But […]