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“Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?” “Bush meat?” “The lion in the zoo that became bush meat in Jos” “What’s my own inside? I don’t know any zoo worker in Jos and how could a lion that was allowed out of its cage and got shot end up in my […]

Commissioner for Transportation in Lagos State, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, said on Thursday that over 99 percent of commercial bus drivers, popularly called danfo drivers, are hypertensive. According to him, this health challenge is as a result of the issues associated with traffic congestion such as pollution of the environment.  Mobereola, who was represented by Dr. […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to religious leaders to play the leading role in de-radicalizing the North-east and ensuring peace nationwide, in view of the fact that peace is a key ingredient of development. Declaring open the Peace Conversation with Relious Leaders, organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) […]

Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communications Plc (owners of African Independence Television, Raypower and Faaji FM) was on Thursday, asked to remain remanded behind bars. He could not secure his freedom at the resumed hearing of a case of N2.1 billion arms fund he allegedly received from the office of the National Security Adviser for publicity. […]

I have read, first with discomfort, and then with something akin to horror, the words that have been attributed to my dear governor, Adams Oshiomhole. I call him “my dear governor” for two reasons; first, I am indigene of the nation’s big heart; and second, one of the ballot papers of the Edo state 2012 […]

“…If there is crisis in any state of the federation and there is need to mobilize resources for security agencies, the next thing you hear from whoever is the President of Nigeria is ‘call me the GMD’. If a leader of one of the ECOWAS countries visited and was genuflecting before our president about how […]

My position is clear which is that some officers of the army committed a lot of atrocities.  There was gross misconduct from most of them.  I do have a lot of respect for the military as an institution but will be failing in my duty if I don’t point out the flagrant misconduct and the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari declared Wednesday in Abuja that the return of persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency to their home communities will begin in earnest next year. Speaking at an audience with a delegation from the International  Rescue Committee (IRC) led by former British Foreign Minister, Mr. David Miliband, President Buhari  said that his […]

The Banker Magazine has named UBA Chad and Senegal as “Bank of the Year” in their respective countries for 2015.  Both awards were presented recently at the Hilton Bankside, London. While UBA Chad is winning the award for the first time, this is the fourth consecutive year that UBA Senegal is winning the award having won in […]

I thought I was done with writing about Biafra – after three articles on the subject that sought to address the issue from different perspectives. However following the bold effort by Dr Jibrin Ibrahim to re-frame the Biafra discourse and the flurry of reactions it elicited especially from Professors Chidi Odinkalu and Okechukwu Ibeanu, I […]

Joy-Ochonu Idoko, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Peter Amromanoh, Executive Secretary Delta State Scholarship Board and his accountant, Andrew Boji Nkwor before Justice F. N Azinge of the Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, today told the court how the accused persons opened 28 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja called on Nigerians to support all necessary measures to ensure free, fair and credible elections in the country, including the use of card readers and permanent voter cards. Receiving members of the newly elected Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Executive Committee in his office, Buhari said that more work was […]