Defend Nigeria’s Democracy, Fashola Tells COAS, Military

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has charged the military in the country to always do everything possible to protect and nurture the nation’s budding democracy to enable it grow…

Lagos 2014 Budget Records 86 Percent in 6 Months

Lagos State Government has recorded a cumulative mid-year budget performance of 86 percent, despite a big drop in its receipt from federal transfer. This is a major feat, the government…

No Voting for People without Permanent Voter Card in 2015 ― REC

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State Professor Selina Okoh, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided that only those who have Permanent Voter Card…

Edo Assembly Face-off: Group Hails Judiciary

Says PDP Legislators Are Lawless A group known as the Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa on Tuesday said the continual disobedience to Court orders and rulings…

At Last, Jonathan Meets Parents of Kidnapped Schoolgirls, Chibok Community Reps

Finally, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan  on Tuesday met with parents and relatives of some of the Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by men of the dreaded Islamic extremist sect, Boko…

Editorial: Asari Dakubo & the Politics of Resource Allocation

It would have been enough to dismiss the statement as the ranting of an overzealous and misguided sycophant. But against the background of Nigeria’s precarious security situation, due to the…

Fashola Inaugurates 3-Man Panel on Alleged Soldiers’ Attack on BRT

Governor Babatunde Fashola on Monday set up and inaugurated a three-man Tribunal of Enquiry to investigate the clash between men of the Armed Forces and the driver of a Bus…

Buhari ,Jonathan in War of Words

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to pull the brakes on his administration’s runaway train of impunity in the interest of Nigeria’s survival…

Rilwanu Lukman, Ex-Petroleum Minister, Passes at 75

Just a month to his 76th birthday, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum and one-time Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is dead. Lukman died at…

Nigeria: We are all victims

A group, the Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa, yesterday said the entire citizens of Nigeria are victims of the unfolding mask of anarchy without the exception…