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“Nigerian herdsmen don’t carry AK 47’s. They only use sticks”- President Buhari to President Donald Trump, The White House, 30th April 2018. “We’ve had serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed in Nigeria. We’re going to work on that problem and work on that problem very, very hard, because we can’t allow that […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday made history as the first African President to visit President Donald Trump at White House for a bilateral talk which touched on security, econnomy, trade and investment and governance. Here is President Buhari’s full statement: It has been a pleasure and honour to visit Washington DC at the kind invitation […]

The Chairmen of the Committees on Public Accounts in the National Assembly – Kingsley Chinda (House of Representatives, PDP Rivers, Obio/Akpor Constituency) and Mathew Urhoghide (Senate, PDP Edo South) – have both had cause to ask the respective Chambers of the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the withdrawal […]

Mr. president, Senior Government officials, I have just had excellent discussions with President Trump and I would like to reiterate my immense gratitude to you, Mr. President for your kind invitation and the very warm and generous hospitality extended to me and my delegation since our arrival in the United States; 1. We greatly appreciate […]

There has been unrest in the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 30, Nigeria’s second largest onshore oil & gas asset, situated in the Niger Delta, in the last few weeks. Ongoing Community protest has been focused around the quiet success story of a relatively unknown Nigerian company, Salvic Petroleum Resources Limited (SALVIC). Investigations reveal that in […]

Information about crimes perpetrated by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria or Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt have been circulating the media for years. Some of the atrocities, for example, the abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok, have triggered international outcry. While the Nigerian Government continues to address the threat posed by Boko Haram, it is […]

Pan- African financial Institution, United Bank for Africa Plc, last thursday, ended its annual Group Chairman’s Forum, a platform for group integration, re-strategising and knowledge sharing with the overall aim of puting the bank on firm standing to actualize its goals and targets for the financial year. The theme of this year’s forum was focused […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has been likened to that father who goes to the house of his daughter’s suitor to announce that she is a prostitute. I have honourably accepted the tag “lazy Nigerian youth” since the president went to the UK and told the world that “a lot of Nigerian youths are doing nothing”. It […]

The eagerness with which INEC acts the script written by the failed APC Federal Government is disheartening. The present INEC under the leadership of Mahmood Yakubu has proven to be a purpet in the hands of the Presidency. The failed recall of Senator Dino Melaye further exposed the criminality of INEC. The speed with which […]

The attempt to recall the Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West flopped on Saturday following a low turn-out for the signature the verification. Results announced by INEC at the end of the exercise showed that only 18,742 signatories to the recall petition were verified out of the 189,870 signatories on the petition. The verified signatories […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed new dates for the conduct congresses and shifted the May 14 set for the national convention to June. The party had initially on April 18, announced that it would hold its National Convention on May 14. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, said the ward […]

Last friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying “grave violations of human rights” continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were never prosecuted by the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari. It also said, inter alia, that Nigeria is suffering from “ethnic, religious and regional […]