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The rather combative riposte by the Presidency, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, after he criticized President Muhammadu Buhari of running the country aground and making Nigeria a basket case and a failed state, once again advertises in dramatic fashion, the absence of grace in the highest realms of governance; and this certainly cannot be in […]

The United States government announced Monday that it has imposed additional visa restrictions on Nigerian politicians who undermined the democratic process or organized election-related violence during the November 2019 Kogi and Bayelsa gubernatorial elections. The US State Department in a statement published on its website also admonished all stakeholders, including the Independent National Electoral Commission […]

The five socio-cultural groups that held a two-day meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja last week have berated the Presidency for its condemnation of the meeting and the vicious attacks unleashed on Obasanjo for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari of running the country aground and making Nigeria a basket case and a failed state. […]

To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with a pandemic the scale of which hasn’t been seen in 100 years. The crisis has crippled economies, destroyed global supply chains and obliterated once productive […]

The United States government said on Monday it had imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians who have been found to have undermined the democratic process in four states – Bayelsa, Kogi, Edo, and Ondo.   A statement issued by Morgan Ortagus, spokesman for the Department of State, said the action on Monday, September 14, 2020, was […]

It was a bleak Monday for man air passengers across Nigeria who were booked to fly Arik Air as they were stranded following a strike by aviation unions, grounding operations of Arik Air.   Secretary-General of National Union of Air Transport Employees Ocheme Aba explained that the workers were protesting the ill-treatment of their members […]

An unidentified man died in Logos Monday after two vehicles collided with a moving train.   The dead man was being driven by another man in an SUV Toyota Highlander when the vehicle collided with the train at   at PWD inward Oshodi, Lagos. The driver sustained injuries.   The second vehicle, a commercial bus […]

…as ASUU vows no resumption without deal on 2009 pact     The resumption of Lagos State University scheduled for Monday, September 14, suffered a setback as the workers’ unions aborted the move, locking the gates against both teachers and students.   Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu recently approved the resumption of final-year undergraduate students of Lagos […]