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The General Court Martial of 60 Nigerian soldiers charged with mutiny has been postponed till Thursday, military authorities have said. The trial was earlier billed to hold on Tuesday at the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja. But journalists who were supposed to cover the proceedings found the venue under lock and key with no activities at all. […]

The Presidential and other National Elections will come up very early next year. Before this happens however, we know there will be the usual political bloodletting, a regular but complex political and constitutional/judicial ritual we unfailingly subject this country to. Some call it “heating up the system”. The drama will involve but not limited to: […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State on Monday ordered the State Security Service of Nigeria to apologise to former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai, and pay him a sum of N2 million in damages for unlawful detention. This follows the events of 15th and 16th November 2013, during the […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday conferred different categories of national honours on 313 persons who are believed to have distinguished themselves in their various fields of endeavour. The President also used the opportunity to direct that the designer of the country’s national flag, Pa Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi, be placed on the salary of a Special […]

We commemorate this Independence Day because the nation has survived despite its many challenges. We dare not celebrate because the nation has not flourished as it should. 54 years our national trek began with hope and promise, peace and unity. Today, the nation staggers beneath the weight of trouble stacked upon problem multiplied by hardship. […]

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State Chapter has appealed to the Lagos State Government to pay the withheld emoluments of doctors in its employ. The Chairman of the association, Dr Tope Ojo, made the appeal at a news briefing in Lagos on Sunday. Ojo said that it was annoying that the state government withheld the […]

…says we’ve videos where you appeared A socio-religious group, Christians United Against Boko Haram (CUABH) on Sunday slammed a former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie for his comments on the current President of Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, saying he should keep quiet because under him (Okogie) Nigeria was taken to […]

Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the call by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he should be arrested over the recent political developments in the state was baseless, spurious and originates from an ignorant mind. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday through his Chief Press […]

Ordinarily religion should not be brought into politics but sadly the APC has done precisely that. They have introduced religion into politics in a very irresponsible, divisive and dangerous manner and they are using it as a political tool and as a means to capture power. Those of you that are Christians and that are […]

Nigeria’s human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has charged the acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to immediately arrest and prosecute all those who invaded the High Court in Ado Ekiti beating up a Judge and violating the Court of Justice. He described the action as a sacrilege against the state judiciary, blaming the State governor-elect, […]

Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis has revealed more ways through which Ali Modu Sheriff is sponsoring members of the Islamic extremist sect Boko Haram, appealing to the sect to embrace peace, following the death Abubakar Shekau’s impostor for more than a year. According to Davis the real Shekau was killed in June 2013. Davis made […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Friday broadcast on the political unrest in the State as a further demonstration of the governor’s wickedness and heartlessness. The party said it was only a wicked leader that would address the state without at least, mentioning the name of the National […]