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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has extended its nationwide membership registration by two days to accommodate the millions of Nigerians who have turned out to register but could not yet do so. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the registration will now end […]

The Nigeria Police has begun serious surveillance efforts towards recovering illegal arms in circulation all over the country ahead of the 2015 general elections. According to Public Relations Officer of the Police, Mr Frank Mba, surveillance is on public armouries within the countries and around its borders to prevent illegal possession of arms. “One major […]

Practitioners of African Traditional Religion have protested their exclusion from the proposed national conference and have therefore implored the Federal Government to allocate three slots to them. At a press briefing on Sunday in Abuja, President of International Council for Ifa (African) Religion and Dean, School of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Federal University of […]

Senator Gbemisola Saraki on Saturday led other chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State to decamp to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Those who defected with their supporters also include Mr. Lola Ashiru and Prince Sunday Fagbemi, both APC chieftains, as well as Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who was governorship candidate of the […]

Given the reign of impunity unleashed on the people of Rivers State by Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph, his long overdue redeployment should ordinarily be a welcome development in the hope that the anarchy and campaign of terror may finally be over. The timing of Mbu’s redeployment is suspect; and it is not fallacious to […]

When I wrote an article titled Failed Government or Failing Citizens in January 2013, I expected a reverberation of mixed comments. I was not disappointed. In that piece, I attempted to challenge the belief system that makes us channel our creative energies towards blaming the government rather than taking responsibility for effecting change and proffering […]

With election year on our hands, deft political movements by politicians have commenced; real and imagined would be opponents to political gladiators have either been marked out for political blackmail or character assassination. Tension is building up every where in Imo State. Name dropping for political advantages has become a past time business in the […]

An unbiased examination of the 2014 budget proposal presently under consideration of the National Assembly will reveal that it is not doomed after all, as those opposing it would have us believe. From all indications, the budget has a potential to lay a great foundation for the growth of the Nigerian economy. Being one of […]

In furtherance of our study on tithing, we will be looking at its relevance and at the same time continue to answer questions raised by readers. Hebrews 7:4 says Consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils”.  To consider means to fix one’s eye or mind […]

A year and three months after their marriage, Juwon Lawal, husband of Nollywood actress, Uche Iwuji has sent her away from their matrimonial home over issues relating to adultery. Sources said the relationship had crashed since December 2013, but the estranged husband just released a statement after many weeks of denials, during which the duo […]

Justice Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere on Friday mandated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate claims by Oluwaseun Ogunbambo that he is not medically fit to stand trial.  The alleged serial fraudster, who is being prosecuted by the EFCC on charges bordering on stealing, was conspicuously absent when the case came […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, Kano State on Friday sentenced one Ibrahim Saleh Nagero to two years imprisonment for offences bordering on financial malpractices.  The convict allegedly used a fake bank guarantee to obtain a N36m lease finance facility from First Bank Nigeria Plc. The convict, who was earlier arraigned by the Economic and Financial […]