For Anti-Trump supporters, there is still some glimmer of hope that president-elect Donald Trump won’t be sworn in as president of the United States come January 2017 due to today’s Electoral College votes. In the recently concluded U.S Presidential election, [...]
December 19, 2016
International
Details have emerged on how suspicious payments were made by JosmonTechnologies, a firm that was awarded a contract by the Presidential Initiative on North East (PINE), into the bank account of Rholavision, a company linked to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), [...]
Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has blasted clerics who predicted that he would be impeached or removed, less than a year after assuming office. In 2014 after his swearing-in, two notable clerics from Ibadan and Akure, predicted that Fayose [...]
How nauseating and ridiculous too that on the list of African leaders who recently visited Gambia to prevail on President Yahya Jammeh to concede defeat and step down, that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari who lacks every moral ground as a [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the investigation of top officials of his administration who have been accused of corruption. A short statement by Mr. Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, indicated the president’s directive. “The attention of the presidency has been drawn [...]
December 19, 2016
General
The Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC-Lagos) said that Nigeria must go ahead with the plan to borrow $ 29.9 billion for the country to come out of recession. The borrowing plan by the Muhammadu Buhari [...]
Residents of Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa have appealed to the state government to repair the Otuoke-Onuebum road which has been in a deplorable condition. Otuoke is the hometown of former President Goodluck Jonathan who led Nigeria for [...]
Femi Fani-Kayode takes a hard look at Nigeria and the prospects of a future for the troubled West African country. I love this country with every fiber of my being. For three generations before me my forefathers, including my great [...]
Crude oil has been discovered in vast quantities in Borno State, according to Jamila Shua’ra, permanent secretary, ministry of petroleum resources. Shua’ra made the disclosure on Thursday at the presentation of the 2016 petroleum sector scorecard in Abuja. She listed the discovery of [...]
Valentina Guebuza, the influential businesswoman daughter of former Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, was shot dead by her husband in their apartment in a wealthy neighbourhood of the capital, Mozambican police said on Thursday, December 15, 2016. Ms Guebuza was shot [...]
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have sent an unmistakable signal to President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia that they would not allow him to stay longer than 18 January in power. The leaders at their meeting [...]
“Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any sign of willingness [...]
I watched a video clip of the serially shamed Justice Okon Abang-imposed candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim on YouTube and WhatsAPP, exultantly confessing his spiteful and treacherous conduct that ultimately did his party in, in [...]
It is difficult to match the state of being dead with a towering personality like, Wole Sodipe, one of the founding vice presidents of Platinum Bank, the man we affectionately call The Oracle. At about 3.05am on November 25, I [...]
Every has to deal with a tough girl from the standpoint of the first impression you have of her? Then discover than underneath the tough exterior is a soft and mushy, loving and lovable person? This article is for you. [...]
Departure Of Openness And Fairness In The Criminal Prosecution Of Nnamdi Kanu & Ors: Time For Defense Counsel And IPOB To Re-Jig And Rethink The leaderships of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) and the [...]