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Over 100 days after President Buhari took office, Nigerians are still waiting for him to name his full cabinet. Despite the President’s promise to do so this September, the wait continues, engendering a palpable impatience with the long agonizing wait. Given that the cabinet is the starting point of good governance, few Nigerians fault the […]

Emmanuel Osita Okereke, Director-General of the National Task Force to Combat Illegal Importation of Small Arms, Ammunition, and Light Weapons (NATFORCE) has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) for jumping bail. Okereke, a former presidential aspirant under the platform of the Nigerian Liberation Party (NLP) is being prosecuted by the […]

Mrs. Toyin Nwosu, the abducted wife of the Deputy Managing Director of the Sun Publishing Limited, Mr. Steve Nwosu, has been freed by her abductors. Kidnapped since Monday, Mrs Nwosu was freed by the abductors very early on Thursday. Her abductors dropped her off near Zenith Bank by Festac Bridge and sped off with their […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said the naira will not be further devalued, pointing out that any further devaluation will negatively affect the economy. The global fall in crude oil prices is still biting hard on the country and the Central Bank has imposed increasingly strict foreign exchange rules to save the country reserves and […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday denied the 13-charge allegations against him by the Code of Bureau Conduct. There had been reports early Wednesday that the Senate President was being charged for false claims in his assets declaration. Saraki denied the allegation in a statement made available to www.www.aso.rocks search engine from his media office. […]

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday approved the composition of Governing Councils for the tertiary institutions in the state. The Governor, as stated by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, listed the names of members of Governing Council for the Lagos State University, Micheal Otedola College of Primary Education, Lagos […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that his Nigeria is currently in talks with Boko Haram prisoners in custody and could offer them amnesty if the extremist group hands over the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in their schools last year. Buhari made the revelation on Wednesday, adding that he is confident that the traditional attacks […]

RECKLESS IMPUNITY AND HIGH-HANDEDNESS OF GOVERNOR UMARU TANKO AL-MAKURA AND HIS SECURITY DETAIL We are solicitors to Lois Ngi Iorvihi (hereinafter referred to as ‘our client’) on whose instructions we write you this open letter. Our client has briefed us that she is a businesswoman resident in Abuja. On the 10th day of September, 2015, […]

As the Senate probes the power sector under the administrations of former presidents Obasanjo, late Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, it is difficult not to worry about Nigeria and its epileptic electricity, which has become an albatross, defying all possible solutions. Nigerians have suffered untold hardship as a result of no electricity and the nation’s economy […]

Images of refugees attempting to reach Europe through any and all possible means have dominated global media for weeks. Yet recent action by EU leaders to address this crisis, although laudable, in no way addresses the underlying challenges fueling the waves of migrants heading for European shores. Most of the migrants are refugees from war-torn […]

I have always wished the day would come when the people of Lagos will call their leaders to account for the way they managed the state’s resources, when the people will sit in judgment and punish the unrighteous servants who took them for granted. Well, that day hasn’t exactly come yet. But we have been […]

Delta State governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday formally opened his defence in the  petition filed  at the  Delta State governorship election petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, the state capital.  The All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate in the governorship election in the state, Chief Great Ogboru is challenging Okowa’s victory at the […]