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Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole escaped death by the skin of his teeth on Saturday morning, as he was involved in a car crash that could have claimed his life. The incident occurred at about 9.45am at Ewu Village, in Edo Central Senatorial District, while he was returning to Benin City from Iyamho Village. Narrating the incident, Media […]Read More

The proposed national conference by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is a mere waste time because nothing will come out of it, Governor of Ebonyi State, Martin ELechi has said. Speaking with some founding fathers of the state, who paid him a Christmas visit, he argued that rather than convene another conference, the Federal […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Presidency has been greatly diminished by its decision to throw decorum to the winds and engage former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a hot exchange of words in what may now be described as “lettergate”, the latest in a series of scandals to hit the Jonathan Presidency. In a […]

President Jonathan has urged a section of the Nigerian media to cease and desist from irresponsible scaremongering.  A statement issued, Thursday, by Reuben Abati,  condemned reports in a section of the media  which quoted President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as saying at a  Christmas  church service on Wednesday  in Abuja that “terrorism has come to stay” […]

The longed-for socioeconomic advancement of Nigerians will remain a tantalising phantasm unless Nigerian leaders model their lives after the values that Jesus Christ and erstwhile South Africa President, Nelson Mandel lived for. According to Reverend Williams Okoye, the chaplain of Aso Villa and general overseer of the All Christians Fellowship Mission who was speaking in […]

In a veiled reference to former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s publicly circulated letter, President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said that no politician or group of politicians can claim ownership of the country. Speaking in Abuja at the Christmas Day service of the Diocese of Abuja, The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Lifecamp, he accused certain […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday urged Christians all over the country to take advantage of the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ to promote peaceful coexistence with other sections of the country. In a Christmas message circulated by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the president urged Nigerians […]

The Ministry of Finance has denied running a corrupt waiver policy, as claimed by Punch Newspaper in a recent editorial criticising the Federal Government and as well challenging the finance ministry to publish those waivers. “Categorically” refuting the allegation, the ministry explained that the Executive introduced a total reform of the waiver policy two years […]

The gust of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) across Rivers State continued Thursday. as virtually the entire population of Opobo and Nkoro gathered at the Primary School Field, Opobo Town with their symbolic brooms and declared their switch over from PDP to the APC.   As early […]

 December 20th 2013  His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR Agbe L’Oba House, Quarry Road, Ibara, Abeokuta.                                                                    Re: Before it is too late […]

Many Nigerians may not have known that before former Deputy Governor of Lagos, Femi Pedro declared days ago that he had joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), he had first met top Lagos residents and politicians within the party to help placate former Governor of Lagos, his boss at that time and now National Leader […]

Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the honourable minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, has been given 14 days to answer a total of 50 questions bordering on establishing the veracity of claims of top government functionaries on the state of economy in relation to the reality of the situation. In a letter to […]