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The World Bank has thrown its weight behind President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation over allegations of missing funds. Speaking in a video conference from Washington to journalists from […]

Oronto Douglas, special adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on research, documentation and strategy, died in the early hours of Thursday three weeks after his doctors told him he had a few days to live. He was […]

  Oronto Douglas, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy, is dead. Mr. Douglas, 49, a presidency source said, passed on at the State House clinic at 4:58 a.m. Friday. […]

Abuja—The former Chaplain of the Presidential Villa during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime and the Founding General Overseer of the All Christians Fellowship Mission, Abuja, Rev. (Dr.) William Okoye, yesterday pointedly told president Goodluck Jonathan that […]

DOCTORS in the employ of Lagos State government yesterday said no amount of intimidation would have them return to work without their salary arrears, among other demands. The doctors, under the aegis of Medical Guild, […]

The battle line between Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa and some ex-militant figures in the state has been drawn over a multibillion-naira pipeline surveillance contract awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Two of […]

Vice President Biden spoke today with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the Nigerian presidential election, which is scheduled for March 28. The Vice President commended President Jonathan and General […]

The controversy surrounding the alleged telephone conversation between President Goodluck Jonathan and the King of Morocco took another dimension  as  President Goodluck Jonathan friday evening said he never spoke on phone with the Moroccoan King […]

Nigeria’s national daily, the Nation Newspaper is reporting that the Federal Government is set to execute its new plan to safeguard the waterways and oil pipelines. The Presidency, the report said, is believed to have […]

The Assistant Inspector General of Police for the Zone 2 Police Command, Mbu Joseph Mbu, is not your everyday cop. There is a hidden story behind his austere look. Clearly, Mbu, who graduated with a […]

The inability of Sagir Koli, the army Captain who leaked the Ekiti-rigging audiotape, to come forward and authenticate the tape, is the reason investigation into the matter cannot proceed, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Mr. […]

ASSISTANT Inspector-General of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu is armed and dangerous! It is necessary to serve this warning to the people of Lagos and Ogun States over whose security of lives and property Mbu has […]

The announcement sent a collective sigh of relief to the water corporation staff and civil society activists. After months of negotiation on how to privatize the water supply in Lagos, between the World Bank and […]

INTERNATIONAL response to last week’s postponement of Nigeria’s presidential and general election may have provoked serious worries and consideration of the option of targeted sanctions on certain government and security officials by the United States […]

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that the investigation into the allegation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Goodluck Jonathan was training and arming a killer squad for this year’s elections has […]

We find the false claims and allegations reportedly made against President Goodluck Jonathan by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday in Abeokuta very odious and repugnant. As we have had cause to say before, it is […]