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I first encountered Ayo Fayose quite a few years ago through a mutual restaurateur friend in South London.  I think the man was known as Oluwayose back then, and I think he worked mostly as a cab driver around town.  But even then, there was a certain energy, a certain swagger about the chap.  He […]

The Delta State Government has denied paying any N500 million as ransom for the release of Mr. Ebikeme Clarke, son of Chief Edwin Clarke, who was kidnapped last Wednesday and released on Sunday. The state government denied the allegation in a statement signed by Comrade Ovuozorie Macaulay, secretary to the Delta State Government, which was […]

Deliberations on the speech by President Goodluck Jonathan as a road-map for the on-going National Conference continued on Monday with delegates dwelling on hair-raising issues that were either controversial or of national significance. For instance, a delegate on the platform of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Nurudeen Lemu, pulled the hall to its […]

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seems to have proven beyond reasonable doubt the truth captured by the familiar adage that whatever a man can do, a woman can do, even better. Nearly all the women in the President’s cabinet have performed excellently and shown to the rest of us that Nigerian women may, after all, hold […]

There can be no end in the foreseeable future to a do-or-die fight for the presidency of our nation.  The unbridled struggle for the position of top dog has generally been motivated by the attraction of the prospect of almost absolute power over our lives and our nation’s resources, particularly the proceeds from the oil […]

  With the 2011 presidential election result as shown below, 
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Of Total   1 PDP Jonathan  22,495,187 58.89% 2 CPC Buhari 12,214,853 31.98% 3 ACN Ribadu 2,079,151 5.41% 4 ANPP Shekarau   917,012 2.40%               Summary of the 16 April 2011 Nigerian presidential election results Candidates Parties Votes […]

For ages, outcome of conferences have always been bellwethers or peep into the future of a people which always birth decisions that affect the people under the jurisdiction covered by the decisions. We can still remember the Berlin conference of 1884 where the present direction Africans are towing was gainfully shared and tailored by European […]

Let a sleeping dog ‘lie’ without disturbance is a metaphor that sometimes show how weak an individual is in terms of confronting issues that are personal to him. Is NSC a sleeping dog? Should we let NSC lay motionless because of a Giant (really puppet) at the helm? I was informed of new Sports Minister […]

Two years after its submission, President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted the recommendations of former Head of Civil Service, Steve Oronsaye to scrap the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) and Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC). The acceptance was communicated in a 105-page white paper report of the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, […]

Today Nigeria as a country has overtaken South Africa and become continent’s biggest economy there is. Besides, in some quarters, it is highly orchestrated that Nigeria’s weakest link could become its greatest assets in the next couple of years to come especially when it comes to its human capital resources, market potentials, young growing population […]

One of Africa’s largest banking groups, Access Bank Plc, has announced its audited result for the financial year ended December, 2013. An analysis of the results released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange today validated the Bank’s capacity for sustainable growth.  The results showed an increase in the Bank’s deposit base from N1.201 […]

  Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has revealed that Nigeria is now the largest economy in Africa and the 26th largest economy in the World. Okonjo-Iweala disclosed the development in Abuja on Sunday while briefing newsmen on the results of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rebasing exercise. […]