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National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu on Sunday paid a visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in what is believed to the beginning of his efforts to reconcile the party with aggrieved members. Mu’azu, a former governor, became the chairman of the embattled party at a period of massive defection of its […]Read More

Nigeria’s foremost conglomerate, Dangote Industries Ltd is to invest $300 million (N50 billion) in rice production to make the country, self sufficient in rice production and also stop importation of the product into the country. The President of the Group, Aliko Dangote last week at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos Switzerland said his Group’s […]

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Muazu is not under investigation as he never embezzled money during his eight-year tenure as Governor of Bauchi State, the party has said.  According to its national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, Muazu, like many other former governors, was invited by the Economic and Financial […]

The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has taken a more dramatic turn as Southwest Zonal Leader, Buruji Kashamu sued former President Olusegun Obasanjo for defamation of his character. He is seeking damages of N20bn from the former president for maligning his character. The suit followed the refusal of Obasanjo to […]

The five governors who broke away from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) have maintained that there is no going back on their decampment to the opposition. Reacting to the committee inaugurated by new National Chairman of PDP, Adamu Mu’azu to oversee their return, the governors described the party’s […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described critics of its directive to its National Assembly members to block all legislative proposals as those who are either ignorant of the workings of democracy or those who have chosen to play to the gallery for pecuniary gains. “Either way, these critics have rushed to judgement without even […]

If anyone had any doubts about the true nature of the opposition in the country, it was erased by comments of the All Progressives Congress (APC); and one of its leading lights, former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nasir el Rufai, who clearly disclosed to Nigerians, the APC’s Plan B, should the party lose out in […]

On Monday, January 13, 2014, Sam Nda-Isaiah, owner of the Leadership newspaper, published an article in his “Last Word” back page column that has stirred interest in political circles.  The article, titled ‘Is The President Aware That $10.8b Is Still Missing?’ ended on page 10 of the newspaper where Nda-Isaiah signed off with a characteristic […]

Coming at a time when President Jonathan is fine tuning the national security apparatus for effective counter terrorism strategies, the directive by the APC leadership to its National Assembly Members to block the passage of the Appropriation Bill 2014 as well as the confirmation of new service chiefs must be totally condemned by all patriotic […]

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has described the massive infrastructural projects of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun led administration in Ogun State as unparallel in the history of the state.

Obasanjo gave the commendation in Abeokuta during a special prayer session organised for Amosun to mark his 56th birthday.

The former president noted that things are now better […]

On the 20th April 1653 Oliver Cromwell, who was the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and the greatest statesman and revolutionary that England ever knew, stormed the English ”Rump Parliament” at Westminster and courageously pronounced the following words after which he sacked Parliament and boldly took power. He said-   ”It is high […]

It is most disheartening that on a daily basis and across the country, the wanton bestiality that had characterised Nigeria’s inglorious military past continues unabated in a country which prides itself as a giant of a divisive continent. At every corner of the country and even in open spaces, all kinds of savage acts are […]