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Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi’s campaign organisation has alleged that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Ayo Fayose, is planning to burn his office and claim it was done by rival All Progressives Congress (APC). The organisation made the allegation on Wednesday, through a statement released by one Dimeji Daniels, claiming that the campaign group gathered […]

President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has wished Nigerian workers a blissful Workers Day Celebration. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Oritsejafor said his message on the occasion is of hope, unity, understanding and support for Nigeria. “On behalf of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and my family, I wish congratulate the millions […]

Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris, disclosed on Wednesday that 9,498 pupils in public primary schools in the state have various forms of visual impairment. He said the discovery was made after a medical test was carried out on 74,000 pupils in the school. Idris, made the revelation during a ministerial press briefing […]

1.My Distinguished Colleagues and Bosses, Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 2.I welcome you all back from your working short Easter break, and I am glad to see everyone hale and hearty. 3. For all Nigerians, this year’s Easter was foreshadowed by sorrow, gloom and anxiety.  A few days before Good Friday, there was a […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has relieved his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak of his duty. The termination of appointment was announced on Tuesday by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, on his twitter page. “President Jonathan has terminated the appointment of his Special Adviser (Political), Alhaji Ahmed […]

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has reacted to the court injunction ordering the House of Representatives to stop all actions probing Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke’s N10billion chattered jet issue. Speaking about the latest development on Tuesday, Tambuwal revealed that the House had resolved to seek legal opinion on Alison-Madueke’s action of […]

This week, I invite you to consider the following excerpts from Toyin Dawodu’s response to Forbes’ (a foremost international business magazine) conclusions from its interview with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy.  Dawodu is Managing Partner of Capital Investment Group in the United States, and he wrote as follows: […]

The Pan African conglomerate-Dangote Group-has donated 12 trailer load of relief material worth N40 million to the Benue State Government. The relief material, according to the Group, is meant to support the ongoing effort of the state government to bring succor to the victims of the recent crisis that affected some parts of the state. […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has suggested that violence and insecurity in Nigeria and other countries may have stemmed from frustration among the people as well as the refusal of those privileged to allow others to be heard. Playing host to the Assistant Secretary of the United States Department Bureau of Conflict Stabilisation Operations […]

…CBN Governor, Emefiele must brace up for the mint challenge Call him a showman, smooth talker, self-righteous and self-adulating gadfly, loud, intemperate, brash, aristocratically arrogant, impulsive, loose cannon, attention seeker, rabble – rouser,activist and iconoclastic renegade. All these and many more fit this extroverted Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s characterisation. These are his attributes which most […]

Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s petroleum minister has obtained an interim court order stopping the House of Representatives from further investigations on the N10billion public funds allegedly used by the minister for leasing private jets for personal use for two years. In a document with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/295/2014, a federal court in Abuja ordered that the House, […]Read More

Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), is happy with the cancellation of the planned rally by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State in line with the prevailing mood of the nation, especially the abduction of over 200 school children in Borno State. The rally had been planned for Tuesday, but last […]