ABUJA – The National Judicial Council, NJC, on Thursday, succumbed to pressure from the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, even as it agreed that all the judges being investigated over allegations of corruption should step down […]
SIR: I never thought I was going to write to you again since your eviction from the “Rock”. But seeing how ardently you are trying to invade our memories with “Ebele-Trojan Virus”, in a bid […]
Hours after peace talks between President Muhammadu Buhari and Niger Delta leaders, suspected militants have blown up a flow station belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in Delta. Reports indicated that troops securing […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday convicted four companies of laundering $15.5m kept in their accounts with Skye Bank. The companies – Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development & Investment […]
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for West Africa and Economic & Regional Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, Peter Barlerin, was in Nigeria recently. He was interviewed at the U.S. Embassy by a select group […]
A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has returned N100 million to the Nigerian government following his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. Sources close to […]
We must not borrow and throw the country into the hock for a bleeding $30 billion on the basis of whimsical emotions or political bias. We cannot sit idly and watch in languor while our […]
ON THE day that Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, was due to meet his Zimbabwean counterpart in Harare, an anti-corruption ombudsman back home released a report that may make his continued rule every bit as […]
Perhaps one of the most tragic aspects of the economic recession Nigeria is currently undergoing is the way in which the cost of drugs has risen out of the reach of the average citizen, with […]
After presenting its one-year scorecard for public appraisal and staging a conference on legislators’ role in the war against corruption in partnership with the National Assembly, the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) is introducing […]
The government of President Muhammadu Buhari is similar to a sprinter required to run the last leg of a relay race, for a Reform process which stared in 2005, with the passing of the ESPR […]
If the unseen hands of previous presidents could be spotted in previous amendments and therefore rejected, one wonders how far the Senate president and his co-travellers can go in arm-twisting Nigerians to accept amendments done […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to resist the dismissal of the Ogun state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Akeem Ambali, and his Vice-Chairman, Dare Ilekoya, who is also the state Chairman of the […]
What the stories of the Chibok girls and that of the converted suicide bomber point to is the certain defeat of Boko Haram insurgency and the waning resonance of its underpinning ideology. While we had […]
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), on Monday boasted that if the two factional candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Jimoh Ibrahim and Eyitayo Jegede, combined […]
The Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, is no doubt a fighter. He sure knows well how to fight a political battle. It will be recalled that he came into office after an electoral controversy, […]
“More immigrants for Canada would be a good policy for demographic reasons” Canada will let 300,000 immigrants enter the country in 2017, keeping this year’s target the same despite recommendations for increasing the number to […]
Since the publication of Reuben Abati’s piece on the “Spiritual side of Aso Villa” on October 14, I have taken time to follow the reactions of key personalities to the article. Quite significantly, a former […]
A Nigerian senator has condemned his colleagues for appropriating to themselves the control over the two anti-graft agencies, the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT. The Bureau is mandated […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has implored Nigerians to continue to support democratic governance. The former Nigerian leader spoke at a dinner he attended in the United States on Saturday evening. “I urge the Nigerian lawyers […]
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