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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to Sunday, 8th February 2015. This supersedes the earlier deadline of Saturday, 31st January 2015, and is intended to give registered voters yet to collect their PVCs the opportunity to do so in readiness for the February 2015 […]

There was this story we were told in the University of an Indian Surgeon who was recruited by the Kwara State government then to work in the state hospital. This surgeon was so good in performing surgery that virtually all the surgeries he had performed were successful. Unfortunately as fate would have it, the government […]

The Rivers State Governor Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi emerged the overall winner in the best performing Nigerian governors poll organised by Premiumratings.com. The poll which ran across various online fora, social network platforms as well as the premiumratings site lasted for one month and saw several participants within and across Nigeria. The poll was […]

Social media sites went abuzz Friday following some tweets by former Minister of State for Defence, Musliu Obanikoro, that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muhammadu Buhari, was pelted with stones in Lagos where he, with the APC team, came to campaign. Obanikoro also condemned the attack against Buhari thus giving bloggers […]

In about two weeks, precisely 14 February 2015, Nigeria, African most populous country, will go to the polls to elect its president. The election is perhaps the most closely contested election since its independence from the British in 1960. The two presidential front runners–Messrs Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]

1 John 5:4-5…  «  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? » “Nikaō” is the Greek word translated “overcometh”, it means to conquer, overcome, vanquish or […]

In almost a rate proportional to the one in which Nigeria is preparing to hold its general elections in February, Boko Haram is expanding its six-year reign of terror aimed at imposing its strict version of Sharia on the north eastern region of the country and its neighbours, Chad and Cameroon. So far, a summation […]

Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), will not be featuring in the presidential debate organised by the Broadcast Organisation of Nigeria (BON). According Garba Shehu, directorate of media and publicity of the APC presidential campaign organisation, the boycott is due to the “unhidden bias and campaign of calumny by some […]

A day after President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President David Mark and Ahmadu Ali, the head of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation, slammed former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, for being a liar and an ingrate because he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Maku has replied Mark and Ali, saying they have become scared of his […]

I am deeply concerned that at this time of political campaign, as it usually happens, the word “Christian” is loosely used in reference to certain candidates for elective offices in Nigeria. The church stands the risk of being used for very indecent purposes, and I would like to counsel the church leadership not to mislead […]

Notwithstanding the uncertainties and fears preceding the elections, and the divisive and hostile tones in the current campaigns, all patriotic Nigerians of goodwill must ensure the country remains united during and after the forthcoming polls regardless of the existing religious, regional and ethnic fault lines. For the second time, President Goodluck Jonathan; a Christian from […]

Opinion polls commissioned by ANAP Foundation and conducted by NOI Polls (using Gallup methodology) show that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) and his main challenger, Major-General Mohammadu Buhari (Buhari) are currently running neck-to-neck in the 2015 Presidential race. The difference between them in terms of potential votes nation wide is statistically insignificant because it is […]