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With today’s election, Ekiti State has become the epicenter of Nigerian electoral politics. Here, the major political fault lines converge into a great foreshadowing. Fateful questions not only about Ekiti but about the course of our nation and its uncertain democracy will be asked and may be answered this day. If this is how history […]

If there is one person that wants punishment for the military men who prevented governors under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from joining Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State during his campaign last Thursday, that person is Professor Wole Soyinka  The literary icon on Saturday, during a press conference at the Freedom […]

A word is good for the wise, a touch is good for an antelope and a repeated shouting coupled with a big stick appears not enough for self imposed ‘sports administrators’ in Nigeria. Readers should note that those so-called administrators are really clueless about sports or management because they were appointed to such roles based […]

The Former Assistant to the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi on Inter Party Relations and the younger brother to Sen. Joy Emodi,  Chief Ben Obi (Mbuze Agulu) has denied maligning his former boss as is being circulated on social media. In a press conference in his home town of Agulu yesterday, Chief […]

In all my years of reading articles written by some of the very finest in this noble profession called journalism, two articles are stuck in my brain like the hair planted on the scarf of the head. The first of these TWO articles….WHY I WILL NOT FORGIVE MY TEACHER, was written many years back by […]

As part of the efforts to combat the aftermath of the abduction of he more than 200 girls from Chbok Borno State about two months ago, celebrities in the intenational community have come together to create a parallel to the global Bring Back Our Girls campaign naming it Let Girls Learn in an attempt to […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has counselled the All Progressives Congress (APC) to jettison all undemocratic and anti-people tendencies and imbibe the proper comportment as an opposition party in a democratic setting. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Thursday, said with its new leadership, Nigerians should expect a new behaviour from the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has closed its case against the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji. Godwin Obla, counsel to EFCC in the N503 million scam suit preferred against the speaker, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday, that he had already presented two witnesses […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the role of the military in Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State,  In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,  said armed soldiers arrested the Director-General of the Fayemi Campaign Organization, Hon. Bimbo Daramola, and the state Commissioner for Finance. […]Read More

The needless controversy over the installation of former central bank governor, Lamido Sanusi as new emir of Kano was avoidable if the Presidency demonstrated the maturity and stately comportment required of persons, who by authority and common trust are supposed to be the epitome of civility. Given the frosty relationship between Sanusi and President Goodluck […]

I have called this World Press Conference today to alert Nigerians and our international friends of the grave threat posed to our democracy and indeed the very survival of our nation by an increasingly-tyrannical Federal Government. Less than 48 hours after I released an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, warning him to halt the […]

As the Lagos State University (LASU) announces Monday for resumption after months of strike by the institution’s lecturers and protests against fee hike by the students, the Lagos Democratic Movement (LDM) ― a coalition of civil activists and political actors in Lagos state ― on Friday expressed concern over the controversial reduction in the school […]