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The Pan-Nigeria road safety campaign, a partnership between ExxonMobil and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has been launched in Akwa Ibom State. The campaign which is part of a series of road safety programmes to address the challenge of road accidents will witness a week-long activation events in the state lined up for Eket, […]

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has warned the five northern state governors believed to be supporters of Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi that they will not succeed in their plot to oust the president.  Governors Sule Lamido, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Aliyu Wamakko, Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu and Murtala Nyako […]

Signs that all is not well with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State became obvious on Tuesday with the suspension of former Governor Ayo Fayose, who, www.www.aso.rocks search engine learnt is making moves to contest the forthcoming election. Fayose was suspended alongside State Secretary of the party, Tope Aluko; State Women Leader, Busola […]

President Jonathan and Governor Amaechi have been dancing shamelessly on Nigeria’s political space that a vote for David Cameron and British Re-colonization of Nigeria is very expedient if the African Giant can survive. Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi had so far managed to defeated the gang-up against his political ambitions including President Jonathan, his wife […]

You only get to see one even if there are many more living out of public glare in semi-retirement. We are talking here of executive wives, women married to men of means and ways- inflated balloons turned power houses by virtue of straying into the corridors of power either by the imposition of powerful brigands […]

Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva and his successor, Mr. Seriake Dickson have continued their public war of words, this time over non-payment of pensions to retirees in the state for five years.  On Monday, Sylva had criticised the administration of the current governor for its string of “failures” that ordinarily should warrant the […]

Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has escaped what would have been an eye-catching student protest against him in London. Seeing that the governor is to deliver a paper at the Chatham House on Reform and Resource Governance, some politicians loyal to his opponents recently visited a hospitalised member of the Rivers State House of […]

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has expressed worries over the Nigerian Senate’s passage of a resolution to amend the provision of Section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 constitution, which states that, “any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.” In a release issued […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested a man who posed as a Director of African Development Bank (ADB) based in Cote D’ Ívoire, to defraud his victim of the sum of $92, 000. Operatives of the agency finally arrested Dr. Princewell Arinze Chukwueze, allegedly a serial fraudster, in Abuja after […]

The Federal Government attaches the highest possible value to the contributions of the Urhobo to national development and would therefore do all within its powers to address issues that are of concern to the ethnic group, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Speaking on Monday in Abuja with a delegation of the Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU), […]

An ecumenical group, the Northern Christian Youth Solidarity and Emancipation Movement for Justice and Self-Determination on Monday implored the Federal Government to investigate allegations of girls being forced into early Islamic marriages in some parts of the country. According to the group, an affiliate of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the alleged abduction of 24-year-old […]

It is no longer in doubt that the lingering political impasse in Rivers State has grown into a monster that may consume the weak democracy Nigerians are struggling to nurse into maturity. Already, most people are dissatisfied with the manner the problem is being managed especially as many can say precisely where the problem is. […]