ASUU Strike Update: FG Insisted, ASUU Should Call Off Strike With Immediate...
THE Federal Government of Nigeria, said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has no reason to continue with the ongoing industrial action which has closed down universities for about five...
View ArticleEXPOSED: How Directors of Fed. Civil Service Pays N5m, 10m For Promotion
A cabal in the Federal Civil Service Commission is doing all it can to sustain its grip on the promotion of senior cadres in the federal bureaucracy as the federal government attempts to check the...
View ArticleGodfather vs godson
Will Obiano tread the path of Orji, Nnamani, Chime? hen Niccolo Machiavelli, in his book The Prince, noted that those who give political power to surrogates usually come to grief, he probably had in...
View ArticleOlunloyo and the `Wild, Wild West’, by Fani-Kayode
By Femi Fani-Kayode In an interview with a newspaper on November 30, 2013, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo, a great nationalist, a two-time former Commisioner of Education of the old Western Region, a...
View ArticleMandela: World’s best example of leadership – IBB
Former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, believes the world may have to wait for a century to have a leader in the mould of the just departed Nelson Mandela. Babangida, in a tribute...
View ArticleASUU strike can’t stop sale of UTME forms – JAMB registrar
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has explained that despite the ongoing strike action by members of the Academic...
View ArticleJonathan’s many wars
By Dapo Thomas Fortune has played its part in the life of Goodluck Jonathan by investing him as the President of the most populous country in Africa. Overwhelmed by his dramatic emergence as one of the...
View ArticleNelson Mandela In Hell Fire – Jim Solouki & Martin Baker
According to Jim Solouki and Martin Baker, South Africa’s legendary first black president, Nelson Mandela who died on Thursday at age 95 in his home in Jo’burg is in hell. This supposed heartfelt...
View ArticleWe must remain united — Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday led other politicians across party divides to bid farewell to the late first national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and former Governor of Plateau...
View ArticleSudan’s vice president steps down
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced the resignation of First Vice President Ali Taha, state media reported, the first move in a Cabinet reshuffle announced that brought in younger members of...
View ArticleBoko Haram: Jonathan approves N1 billion for upgrade of detention camps
The president also explained how the insurgents attacked military and aviation facilities in Maiduguri President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said he has approved the disbursement of N1 billion to the...
View ArticleJonathan leaves Abuja on Monday for South Africa, Kenya
President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja on Monday to join other world leaders in South Africa at events leading up to the burial of former President Nelson Mandela. According to a statement by his...
View ArticleAnglican leader hails Mandela’s ‘courage in face of evil’
LONDON – The leader of the world’s Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, paid tribute to Nelson Mandela’s courage on Sunday at a special church service for the anti-apartheid icon in...
View Article‘Heed the call of your fatherland, contest 2015 election’ group tells Jonathan
A group of professional working on the umbrella of Jonathan Shall lead Again, JOSLA, 2015 – 2019, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to harken to the voice of reason by contesting the 2015...
View ArticleBreaking News: Court nullifies N’Assembly’s take over of Rivers Assembly
Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified the resolution of the Nat’l Assembly that empowers it to take over the functions of the River State House of Assembly. Details shortly
View ArticleWhy Jonathan didn’t speak at Mandela’s service – Presidency
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, a North The Presidency last night rose in defence of President Goodluck Jonathan for not speaking at the memorial service in honour of the former South African leader,...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu’s home burgled on Mandela memorial day
Burglars broke into the home of South African Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu while he was away for the memorial service of Nelson Mandela, officials say. It was not yet clear what had...
View ArticlePower privatization: You have one more year in darkness
′DISCOS say they get 75% power less than promised Over a month after owners of the private sector firms took over the electricity generation and distribution sector following the deal they sealed with...
View ArticleReps probes oil theft, warn Diezani, NNPC over summons
The House of Representatives on Wednesday warned the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation against the consequences of ignoring...
View ArticlePDP today confounds me –Sen. Saraki
Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, tells newsmen that the expulsion of four key members of the nPDP is a great setback for the reconciliation process initiated...
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