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The success of the recent Osun gubernatorial election notwithstanding, it is just as well that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has faulted the deployment of masked operatives by the Department of State Security (DSS) for the poll, which saw incumbent Rauf Aregbesola of the opposition All progressive Congress […]

    1.Mr Chairman, very distinguished delegates, it is with all gladness that I address you this day. After nearly five months endeavour to find the appropriate verb for the noun of our country within the syntax of human experience, you have brought to a grateful Nation, the report of the 2014 National Conference.

Penultimate friday, Security experts, Nigerians and friends of Nigeria gathered at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advance Study to discuss Nigeria’s security challenges and proffer solutions. In attendance were Mohammed Sambo Dasuki, Prof. Ade Adefuyi, Prof. Robert Rotberg, Prof. Nimi Wariboko, Prof. Okey Ndibe, Prof. Max Abrahms and Emmanuel Emeke Asiwe, editor-in-chief www.www.aso.rocks search engine and Pastor, […]Read More

The headquarters of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in Wuse Zone 7 District, Abuja been razed by fire. The cause of the fire which was still on at the time of this report, is yet to be known, but it has spread to the offices of the President, Secretary General and the accounts department. The […]

Men in their 50s – especially the civil servants.  At that age, men have lost their idealism, the stark reality of the Nigerian state stares them right in the face.  I had often wondered and have always felt embarrassed when, in the past, I pass through Immigration at Lagos Airport and I’m asked for ‘something’ […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday strongly warned the Department of State Security (DSS) against its alleged plan — at the behest of some politicians — to arrest its Chairman in Borno State, Hon. Ali Abubakar Dalori, on trumped-up charges, saying it is capable of precipitating a crisis in an already-volatile environment. In a […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced the arrest of four bankers for perpetrating Automated Teller Machine fraud. According to EFCC, the fraudsters are Mansur Danlami, Ejiro Eborikpo, Nina Stephen and Samson Nwodo. They were arrested by the operatives of the EFCC for conspiracy to steal the sum of N5.1 million from a […]

Medical doctors in Lagos on Monday took to the streets in protest against the sack of their over 16,000 striking colleagues by the Federal Government. The resident doctors, clad in their white overall brandished placards carrying various inscriptions including “Poor Chukwu you are a disgrace”, “Sack Boko Haram Not Doctors”, “Resident Doctors Have Been Volunteering […]Read More

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it had recovered about N5 billion from persons and organisations indicted in the fuel subsidy scam that followed the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, in 2012. The agency’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, made the disclosure […]

Security operatives on Monday arrested a young man suspected to have been sent by the Boko Haram group of insurgents to bomb the Centre x unit of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency along the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. The suspects, with some forms of disability, had evoked suspicion with his presence at the particular […]

Irresponsible, demeaning, distasteful and lawless are words that best describe the show of shame following the needless altercation between Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and Deputy House Speaker, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, at the Iriji Mbaise New Yam Festival, over the weekend. So bad was the situation that President Goodluck Jonathan, who was represented at the […]

After all the noise and the heightening of the blood pressure of Nigerians by the irascible All Progressives Congress, APC, it was a delightful surprise that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Foces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was magnanimous enough to let the noisy and lying party to […]