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Collaboration between political parties is a veritable instrument for democratic consolidation and national stability, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega has said. Jega made the assertion at the All Nigeria Political Parties and Political Stakeholders Summit on Thursday at held at the International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja. In a keynote address titled “Interparty Collaboration, […]

Many football fans in Adamawa State would be deprived of the Brazil 2014 World Cup action, as the state authorities have ordered the closure of all venues planning to screen live coverage of the football World Cup. The announcement was made on Thursday, obviously because of the current security challenges in Nigeria. The state authorities […]

Kidnappers suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sects have demanded 800 heads of cattle as ransom for the 20 women they abducted earlier this week, a local vigilante group leader has revealed. The women were seized near the town of Chibok,Borno State, where more than 200 girls are still in the sects […]

When the history of the present rulers of Nigeria is written, one of the episodes that would certainly go to the dark pages of history is the eccentric onslaught on the Nigerian media commenced by the Nigerian soldiers last Friday in which the newspaper distribution centre in Abuja was autocratically shut down while thousands of […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos on Wednesday afternoon approved a cut of between 34 to 60 percent in the tuition of the Lagos State University (LASU). The reduction is coming after the students engaged the institution and the government in a persistent protest that lasted many days. The students had on Tuesday again beaten the […]

A statement by some concerned leaders of ethnic nationalities of Borno South Senatorial District Against the background of denials by high-ranking functionaries of the Muslim establishment in Nigeria that the Boko Haram insurgency is not a Muslim agenda, we owe it to ourselves and the world to set the record straight. In 2012, in a […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm over the desperation of the PDP-led Federal Government to capture Ekiti State at all cost, saying the ongoing clampdown on the national media is part of a grand strategy to silence Nigerians ahead of the satanic plan to thwart the will of the people of Ekiti and […]

  The ongoing harassment of newspaper vendors which includes seizure of newspapers,  arrest of circulation drivers of several newspaper publishing companies as well as depriving the reading public access to information by operatives of the Nigerian military and other security agencies  is absolutely unacceptable and clearly out of place in any democratic society. The military […]

At the turn of this century when the death toll on the world’s roads hit 3400 per day and nearly 1.3 million with up to 50 million injured every year, the United Nations General Assembly on May 10, 2010 proclaimed the period 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safetywith a goal to stabilise […]

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has said the solution to recurring gaps in election funding is for this country to treat elections as a cycle, and not events. In that light, there will be consistent and even funding of the Election Management Body over years in-between elections, rather than provision […]

The January 8, 2014 edition of Punch newspaper revealed the secret and vicious agenda of All Progressives Congress (APC), a claim which had been substantiated by an Islamic cleric, Yusuf Garba, and the Religious Equity Promotion Council which exposed the plot by the APC to balkanise the 36 states of Nigeria including Federal Capital Territory, […]

The Minister of Sports Dr. Tammy Danagogo has waded into the brewing crisis between the Super Eagles and the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over the world football governing body’s $8 million allocation to the federation. The players had protested to the NFF Chairman Alhaji Aminu Maigari, in the United States (US) demanding […]