Jonathan: No regrets over suspending Nigeria’s whistle-blowing
President, Goodluck Jonathan has expressed no regrets for suspending the head of the country’s central bank after the governor revealed in February that billions in oil revenues were missing. During a...
View ArticleI remain foundation member of PDP –Kalu
Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has described as falsehood the speculation that he was coming to Enugu to rejoin the PDP, whereas he did that in January 2012, when the then party’s chairman Alhaji Bamanga Tukur...
View ArticleReligious war looms — Soyinka
By Gbenga Olarinoye, Osogbo Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned Nigerians to beware of being pushed to the point where adherents of religious faiths would engage in a war, stressing that...
View ArticleOgonis laud Asari’s comment directed at Patience Jonathan
The people of Ogoni have lauded the leader of the Niger-Delta Volunteer Force and ex-Niger Delta agitator, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo for his position on who should be the next governor of Rivers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015: Muslim/Muslim Ticket: APC Govs set for showdown with Buhari, Tinubu
By Jide Ajani There were very strong indications at the weekend that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors who defected to the All Progressive Congress, APC, are ready to fully engage leaders of...
View ArticleEnugu Police raids arms manufacturing company, arrests widow
A widow and mother of four, Mrs Juliet Nwachukwu has been arrested by the Police in Enugu State over her alleged involvement in gun running. Her arrest followed the raid of a gun manufacturing company...
View ArticleNational Conference is incapable of engaging the future — Pat Utomi
By Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor Professor Pat Utomi is an economist and a politician. He co-founded the Lagos Business School, now Pan African University. In this interview, Utomi speaks on the...
View Article14-year-old bride kills husband with rat poison in Kano
A Nigerian child-bride, 14 year-old Wasila Umaru, recently killed her 35 year-old husband, after being forced to marry him. After the wedding, the groom, Sani Umaru invited some friends to celebrate in...
View ArticleI Will Not Interfere in the selection of Etsu Agaie – Aliyu
Abu Nmodu As the selection of the New Etsu Agaie has been narrowed down to three district heads from the emirate, the governor of Niger State, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has assured that he would not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Why I refused to sign Abiola’s detention paper’
Lt-Gen. Oladipo Diya (rtd),has held senior military postings and commands among which is as a former Chief of General Staff and former military governor of Ogun State. Gen Diya, who recently turned 70,...
View Article2015: Plot to dump Sambo as Jonathan’s running mate thickens
The plot to dump Vice President Namadi Sambo as running mate to President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of next year’s election is far from being over, according to indications last night. The fresh plot is...
View ArticleExposed: Police arrest five with human parts in Joju, Ogun
Policemen attached to the Ogun state Police Command Saturday morning arrested two ladies and three men for possessing human heads and some pieces of human flesh. The five suspects were apprehended in...
View ArticleWe Need A New Nigeria – Amaechi
Rivers State governor Chibuike Amaechi has advocated a positive change that will introduce a new Nigeria. Amaechi, who spoke during a church programme at the Glorious Covenant Ministry, Iwofe, Port...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As Emergency Rule Ends This Week: Jonathan In A Fix
Abdullahi Umar, Bayo Oladeji, By ISAIAH BENJAMIN, By Kareem Haruna As the State of Emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states expires this week, President Goodluck Jonathan is in a dilemma over what...
View Article2015: Kwara state belongs to APC – Saraki
A former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki, Saturday vowed that he will deliver the state to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general elections. Saraki gave this assurance...
View Article2015: President Bars Ministers From Unauthorised Campaign
Donald Ojogo Piqued by reports of the alleged use of soldiers by the minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, in the April 5 House of Representatives by-election in Ondo State, President...
View ArticleClik here to view.
They Saw It Coming
Some analysts saw it coming. They are the people described as discernible minds or better still the clairvoyants. As soon as their names came up as ministers-designate, those who know and can read...
View ArticleReligious crisis may break Nigeria – Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned that the gradual drifting of Nigeria towards a religious war may be very devastating for the country. He made this statement in Osogbo at a press...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jonathan, others to honour Olubadan as he clocks 100 today
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and other eminent Nigerians will, today, celebrate with the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba (Dr) Samuel Odulana, as he marks his centenary birthday anniversary. The president is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oil providing states see Northerners as beggars – Lamido of Amamwa
A traditional ruler and delegate at the ongoing National Conference, the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Aliyu Mustapha has explained that his reason for advocating that the oil producing states...
View Article