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The national secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Saleh Alhassan, Tuesday, said his organisation is afraid that if the Amotekun security outfit is allowed to operate, it could turn out to be a disaster for Nigeria. Alhassan, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, likened the initiative to the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), […]

The Deputy Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, and nine lawmakers on Tuesday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Action Action (AA). Onyekanma equally resigned as Chairman, House Committee on Rules and Business. Minority leader of the assembly Ekene […]

The authoritative Oxford English Dictionary said it has added 29 Nigerian words and expressions in the January updates to the dictionary. “The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said the loss of the “strategically important” states of Kano and Plateau would have been a “major blow” had the Supreme Court verdict, which affirmed the elections of Governors Abdullahi Ganduje and Simon Lalong gone otherwise. “I am glad this tortuous journey has ended in favour of the party and our […]

Announcing Nigeria’s visa-on-arrival policy for all Africans at the Peace and Development Summit in faraway Egypt, President Muhammadu Buhari failed to disclose that Africa’s largest economy has one of the continent’s weakest passports; having suffered the worst decline in rankings over the last decade, on the annual Henley Passport Index with a 19-place drop. The […]

Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized.  So it is with Operation Amotekun: the Western Nigeria Security Network whose recent launch by the Governors of the South West, on January 9, has thrown up key questions at the heart of the Nigerian dilemma as well as […]

Thousands of protesters, most of them dressed in black, ignored the olive branch extended by Imo Governor; Hope Uzodinma and took to the streets of the state capital Owerri, on Sunday, to show their dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court judgement that replaced Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with Uzodinma of the All […]

The United Kingdom’s exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I – like many other Commonwealth leaders – also seek a new settlement: not only of closer relations between the UK and my own […]

After spending sleepless nights in mosques and consulting witch-doctors to intercede on his behalf, the incumbent governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammad, reportedly suffered a panic attack and is recovering in Britain, where he was evacuated as he awaits the outcome of Supreme Court verdict on the governorship election, to be delivered on Monday, January […]

Ex-convict and former Delta State Governor, James Ibori had about 17 bank accounts linked to him in different countries across the world, including the United States, Britain, Austria, Ghana and Guernsey. The British Crown Prosecutor, Jonathan Kinnear, who made the startling disclosure at the Confiscation of Assets hearing of the two-time governor in Courtroom Three […]

A socio-cultural organisation, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), yesterday called on the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to stop playing the ostrich and speak up on the raging controversy surrounding the new security initiative, Operation Amotekun, recently launched by the Southwest governors, and declared illegal by the federal […]

As criticism continues to trail the Federal Government’s declaration of Operation Amotekun illegal, another spanner was thrown into the works after angry reactions trailed Miyetti Allah Kaute Hore’s warning to Southwest governors to disband Amotekun, saying that failure to do so may affect the geopolitical zone’s chance of producing the next president in 2023. Miyetti […]