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The Federal Government has stated its resolve to support the long term gas supply security for the European Union countries as part of measures to expand the nation’s gas market across veritable frontiers.Speaking after discussions with Günther Oettinger, the EU Energy Commissioner, on the margins of the 11th EU-OPEC Energy Dialogue Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, […]

If you are talking about results from a population of 2.3million. With over 1.6 million eligible voters and 700 thousand plus registered voters from which meager figures of 100, 200 and 40 thousand, totaling just about half of registered voters voted, as victories and loses, then you can have a field day celebrating or crying. […]

I met John Kayode Fayemi sometime in 1984 when we were both Student Activists at the University of Lagos. He graduated in 1985, I graduated in 1987. He represented Eni Njoku Hall while I came from Moremi Hall to serve on an ad hoc committee on some issue then. Kayode was the calm, studious type, […]

Peter Ayodele Fayose, the Governor-Elect of Ekiti State, is an enigma in Nigerian politics.  Nobody seems to understand his style and strategies.  Until the declaration of the results of the governorship election of June 21st, 2014, which proclaimed him as winner, by a large margin, it was confusing whether, indeed, this ebullient politician was truly […]

The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has bagged the coveted Golden Merit Award by the Nigerian Library Association (NLS). Presenting the award yesterday at the Golden Royale Hotel Enugu, the National President of the Association, Mr. Abdulsalami Rilwanu said they had not presented it to anyone over the years because nobody in […]

As the curtain closed on what unarguably was a dress rehearsal for the 2015 general election, the outcome of the gubernatorial election that saw Ayo Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeat incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), one major concern was what the change of baton portended for […]

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has congratulated Ayo Fayose, the governor-elect of Ekiti State on his victory at the polls, reminding him that he owes the people of Ekiti the duty of keeping his campaign promises to them and building on the achievements of his predecessor. In a statement issued by the NLC President, Abdulwahed Omar […]

An aircraft flying from Nigeria to Gabon through Cameroon has disappeared, according to Cameroon aviation authorities. The four-seater plane is owned by Global Aviation, a United States company. It took off from Kano in northern Nigeria at 1800 hours on Monday en route Libreville in Gabon, where it was scheduled to arrive at 2300 hours, […]

The elections in Ekiti has come and peacefully gone, but there are some certain reverberations from it and possibly lessons to learn from the elections. But one thing you want to do as the losing party from the polls in Ekiti, is to just take it on the chin and quickly move on to the […]

… Promise to Work Together Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and the Governor-Elect, Mr Ayo Fayose held a meeting on Monday, both promising to work together for the progress of the state. The duo met at the Governor’s Office, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, agreeing that Saturday’s election in which Fayose emerged winner, sets a […]

The National Conference sitting in Abuja has on Monday, prescribed that Attorneys General of the Federal and states should serve a single term of six years, banishing the current practice where the tenure is not fixed. The conference further prescribed that such an appointment would be by the president and confirmed by the Senate for […]

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has urged everyone to support the government in tackling the challenge of terrorists masquerading as Fulani nomads to cause mayhem in the country. Jonathan asserted that the insurgents were exploiting the conflict between pastoralists and farmers to perpetrate terror, while declaring an international conference on Security and Development Challenges of Pastoralism […]