President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday backed off a proposed trip to Rivers State for the kick-off of the cleanup of Ogoni, delegating Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for the exercise. The president cancelled the event even […]
What started as a big joke suddenly became a reality. In a desperate bid to stop the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari the heat of the 2015 presidential election, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti state […]
The planned trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to Rivers State to launch the cleanup of Ogoni land, polluted by years of oil exploration and production, has been cancelled. Multiple sources at the presidential villa told […]
Muhammad Babandede, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has ordered the arrest of illegal holders of diplomatic passports. He directed officers on duty at various airports to be on the look out for former […]
Nigeria has more enslaved people than any country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Global Slavery Index 2016, released on Tuesday, has revealed. The survey, conducted in 167 countries across the world by anti-modern slavery organisation, Walk […]
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says he was queried by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 for proposing the privatisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Speaking on Tuesday at the launch of We Are All […]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday said the Federal Republic of Nigeria as currently constituted is not working, saying greater autonomy to states is the panacea to the country’s multi-faceted internal crisis. Mr. Atiku’s […]
The Nigerian Army said its troops, alongside other security agencies, acted in self-defence as well as in defence of lives and property of peace-loving Nigerians when it shot dead at least five members of the […]
The federal government, yesterday, deployed an armada of five warships, 100 gunboats and fighter jets to the creeks of the Niger Delta, in response to continued bombing of oil and gas pipelines by Niger Delta […]
The successful resolution of the trial of the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, marks a significant step forward in holding high-profile human rights abusers to account in Africa, experts and campaigners say. The example […]
There is an Igbo adage that says if you put your ear close to the ground you would hear the ants whispering. I will say that if President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress […]
•The war against fake drugs must be reinvigorated In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) claimed that about 64 per cent of all anti-malarial drugs consumed in Nigeria were fake. It is truly tragic that […]
The ranking of Lagos and Abuja as some of the world’s worst cities is a wake-up call Mercer, one of the world’s human resources consultancy firms, releases annually a quality of living index, which looks […]
Some legal practitioners and economists have expressed support for the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to unveil the names of looters and the amount of looted assets so far recovered. The President, had, in an […]
My situation had become rather desperate. I could not afford to stay any longer in New York. I just had to get on that plane. Bolaji Ogundimu had only recently been appointed as my Secretary […]
In 1998, some Nigerian political leaders who described themselves as likeminded decided to set up political parties as channels for taking-over government from the departing military administration. The most formidable of such parties was known […]
On security, for example, failure of the Nigerian military to subdue Boko Haram and rescue the over two hundred secondary school girls allegedly abducted from Chibok was seen by critics of Dr. Jonathan as evidence […]
“By When all think alike, no one thinks very much.” Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974. (VANGUARD BOOK OG QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 245). Last week a promise was made to present some pictures from Agatu. Unfortunately, the article […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday formally received a petition asking the agency to probe ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on the alleged mismanagement of $2.1billion released to the Office of the National Security Adviser […]
Sometime in April 2003, Arikpo Williams, a resident of Calabar, Cross River State in Nigeria’s oil-rich South-south region, was to attend a rehearsal at the city’s Cultural Center. As he walked into the expansive compound, […]
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