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The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) has barred Spanish football club, Barcelona from selling or buying players over the next two transfer windows. The development is especially a huge blow to the goalkeeping department, as first-choice keeper, Victor Valdes has announced his decision to walk away on a free transfer when his contract expires […]

Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is yet another 100 days. So it is time to account to you our employers again about what we have done with your time and your resources. This is the 25th consecutive time we have done so. You did not impose it on us. We undertook to do it as […]

Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola has lamented the Federal Government’s decision to halt the State Government’s Ilubirin Foreshore Housing Project. Fashola revealed the sad development to members of the Lagos public at the Lagos Television Ground, Ikeja, the state’s capital, on Tuesday at the commemoration of his 2,500 days in office. The project, intended […]

Debate, comments and opinions on the Presidential speech as a footpath to issues and decisions continued on Tuesday at the ongoing National Conference holding at the National Judicial Institute in Abuja. Moderated by the Conference Deputy Chairman, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, most of the delegates described the President’s speech on 17th March at the inauguration of […]

Scores of people seeking admission into the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have sustained varying degrees of injury after a stampede occurred on Wednesday during the institution’s Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening exercise. Coming barely a week after the widely-condemned recruitment exercise into Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), which resulted in the death of 19 […]

I received a news alert this morning that the All Progressive Congress popularly called the Angry People Congress (APC) was going to field Alhaji (Gen) Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu as their presidential candidate and running mate respectively in the 2015 elections. The first thought that came to my mind was that the […]

Without doubt, President Goodluck Jonathan’s imprudent and petulant response to the 12 Northern governors who had accused him of escalating the Boko Haram crisis, during their visit to Washington DC, USA, impoverished the sobriety and dignity of the office of President of the Federal Republic, in a way that advertises a certain pettiness at the […]

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to acting Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sarah Alade; Executive Director of Finance, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr Sambo Aliyu and Accountant General to the Federation (AGF), Mr Jonah Otunla to explain their individual roles in the alleged missing […]

We shall continue to speak the truth, death threat notwithstanding.The Northern elders upped the hypocrisy and crocodile tears to a higher degree and another point within the past two weeks or there about. Surprisingly none of them have ever come out clearly to condemn Boko Haram by its name Boko Haram except probably the governor […]

The formation of a 6 man panel by the Imo State House of Assembly to investigate the allegations of corruption leveled against the Speaker of the House is all over the news. Ordinarily the announcement of this  6 man panel months after we called for  it should have been  received with joy considering the negative impacts […]

Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has revealed the intention of his commission to pursue its aspiration of introducing Diaspora voting into Nigeria’s electoral system without let up. Jega restated the intention on Tuesday, after the Indonesian Embassy extended an invitation to INEC to observe the voting of Indonesians currently […]

The 37 members of the Federal House of Representatives who defected from All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not vacate their seats, the opposition party has declared. The stand was made known to the public on Tuesday in a statement signed by APC’s interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. […]