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The Igbo have a saying – popularised by the acclaimed novelist, Chinua Achebe – that he who brings home ant-infested faggots should not complain if he is visited by lizards. That proverb is apt in describing the type of treatment Nigeria receives from the Western world, led by the United States of America. Last year, […]

By Prince Charles Dickson


A Nigerian governor is Nigerian, he often than not is an indigene of the State he governs/rules/ or controls.


In rare cases, we know a state governor has actually hailed from another state, and in those cases we have kept the matter under the realm of gossip and conjectures, like one of the […]

The unity among members of the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was reaffirmed yesterday in Abeokuta as party faithful led by Governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and National Assembly members from the state attended the stakeholders’ meeting on the party registration exercise due to commence tomorrow. The event gave the […]

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar believes that his new party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) is committed to building a strong and united party. Speaking in Sokoto State during a courtesy call on Governor of the state, Aliyu Wamakko, Atiku said everyone in the party has laid aside his individual ambition in order to […]

The former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, over the weekend, again, jumped out of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the All Progressives Congress (APC).  There is really nothing surprising or unexpected from Atiku’s latest political peregrination.  If anything, it was a matter of when it would happen and not whether it would happen; and […]

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics has rated the Nigerian football league, known as the Globacom Premier League, as the fourth strongest league on the continent for 2013. It also rated the Spanish La Liga as the best in the world during the same period under review. The Tunisian league was rated Africa’s […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday held a closed-door meeting with service chiefs behind at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Although no statement was issued when it ended, it is believed that the meeting, which lasted several hours and was the first since last month’s appointment of new service chiefs, was occasioned by the resurgence in the terrorism activities […]

Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal on Monday expressed concern over the spate of corruption in the management of finance of public institutions culminating into loss of billions stolen funds. To tackle the problem, the speaker assured that the establishment of Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency (NFIA) would help in ending the era of […]

Niccolò Machiavelli, the renowned Italian political philosopher, observed in The Prince—his treatise on realist political theory—that, “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.” Being himself a well-read prince, albeit one with a tendency to offer precipitate views on matters within and outside his purview, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, a Kano prince […]

The Nation’s foremost sugar refinery, Dangote Sugar has demonstrated its resolve to ensure the realization of the national sugar master plan as it takes delivery of farm machinery worth $35 million from Panafrican Equipment. The Panafrican Equipment Group is a recognized leader in providing mining and construction grade equipment and aftersales support solutions. Speaking at […]

Former Governor of Kwara State and current senator, Dr. Bukola Saraki has described the 2014 budget proposal of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as full of inconsistencies that would condone serious fraud and impunity. He said this in a critical analysis of the budget posted on his website. Among other such inconsistencies, Saraki mentioned situations […]

A deputy title editor with the Newswatch newspapers, Toyin Obadina, who was shot by armed robbers at the wee hours of Saturday, has died. Obadina died early on Sunday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos State, following serious gunshot injuries he suffered from the attack that occurred while he was on his way home from work […]