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Politics
Ministerial List and Buhari’s Dilemma: The Price of a Hasty Coalition?, By Ikechukwu Odigbo
The list of ministers therefore which represents the diversity of APC is a confirmation that President Buhari must have been arms-twisted. He has said many times that he is taking so long to appoint ministers […]
Politics
Does Nigeria need 36 states? By Tabia Princewill
The chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, recently denounced the state of the Nigerian economy, saying both state and federal governments have been borrowing money to pay workers’ salaries. He mentioned the recent […]
Issues/Policy
Lagos: The return of insecurity By Dele Agekameh
Lagos is easily the most important city in Nigeria. There is this continuous attraction and migration to the metropolis because the city is generally regarded as the ‘honey pot’ of the country. In recent times, […]
Politics
Jonathan’s fair-weather friends (I) By Mohammed Haruna
DR Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former president, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has been expressing great anger at Chief Edwin Clark, his principal’s self-appointed godfather, over the godfather’s apparent denunciation […]
Politics
El-Rufai’s politics of revenge By Levi Obijiofor
Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai is in the news again. It is not because he did something particularly uplifting. The governor hit newspaper headlines last weekend because he made an inexcusable outburst that exposed his […]
Society
Avoiding a controversial Ooni By Tunde Okanlawon
Without any shred of doubt, no one thought that the Friday, July 24, 2015, departure of Oba Okunade Sijuade, Olubuse II, to the UK for medical attention, will, in a five-day time-bracket, trigger a series […]
Politics
Supreme Court strikes out Agbaje’s appeal against Ambode ……. NATION
Says Agbaje cannot appeal without his party The Supreme Court yesterday struck out the appeal filed by Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Lagos. Agbaje appealed the decision of the Court of […]
Security
Women protest Kanu’s arrest in Delta, demand his release …… VANGUARD
ASABA—PROTESTERS, yesterday stormed the entrance of Delta State Government House, Asaba condemning the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. Gathered under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, […]
Politics
Saraki may bow to APC’s position on principal officers ……. VANGUARD
ABUJA—Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was prepared to bow to the position of All Progressives Congress, APC, by sacrificing his principal officers. According to a source, part of the unwritten […]
Issues/Policy
Head of Federal Civil Service Danladi Kifasi quits ……. NATION
•How Perm Secs used anti-Diezani’s sentiments to conspire against HoS There was tension yesterday following the “sudden” decision of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Danladi Kifasi to proceed on retirement. […]
Politics
EFCC grills Moro over Immigration job tragedy ……. NATION
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated immediate past Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro for eight hours over the March 15, 2014 Immigration job tragedy in which 19 applicants died. Interrogators wanted […]
Politics
Senate’s crisis over Amaechi deepens …… NATION
•Plenary adjourned for Saraki’s trial Rather than abate, the crisis over the screening of ministerial nominee Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is deepening at the Senate. Yesterday, his name was removed from the Order Paper after being […]
Security
Nigerian Army raises panel to probe General, others over 2014 Ekiti, Osun guber polls ……. PREMIUM TIMES
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday set up “a high powered” Board of Inquiry to investigate alleged malpractices and involvement of its personnel in the 2014 Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections. In February, SaharaReporters posted […]
Technology
Broadband business very profitable in Nigeria, FG tells investors at ITU World …… VANGUARD
Nigeria may have taken a sizeable number of Small and Medium size Entrepreneurs, SMEs to the just concluded ITU telecom World in Budapest, Hungary, to showcase the potential of the country’s informal sector, but the […]
Aviation
Arik’s planes collide at Lagos airport, grounded ……. VANGUARD
LAGOS—Two planes belonging to Arik Air, yesterday, brushed each other while manoeuvring out of the apron at the General Aviation Terminal, GAT, of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The two planes had their wing tips damaged and […]
Politics
PDP, APC senators poise for war over Amaechi ’s confirmation ……. VANGUARD
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators were yesterday pitched in a war of intrigues over the ministerial screening of Mr. Rotimi Amaechi even as the constitutional deadline for his […]
Society
The 17th Lagos Book & Art Festival
The directorate of the Committee for Relevant Art, CORA wishes to express our profound appreciation of your onsistent support to our various programmes, mainly designed to facilitate growth of Literacy through Literature and the Arts, […]
Society
CORA ANNOUNCES ENTRIES FOR KEN SARO WIWA BOOK REVIEW COMPETITION
The organisers of the Lagos Book and Art Festival have called for entries for reviews of any one of five works of Ken Saro Wiwa’s fiction and drama. The best review of either Sozaboy, A […]
Travel/Destination
Two Arik Air aircraft in wing-tip brush
Two of our aircraft, Boeing 737-800NG were this afternoon involved in a wing-tip brush at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. One of the aircraft, 5N-MJP was marshalled out […]