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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed condemnation for the tacit defence of Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu by the Police Service Commission (PSC), saying the commission, by its unimaginative action, was only pandering to the Presidency, which is the sponsor of the impunity in the state. In a statement issued in Lagos on […]

Barely a year before the 2015 general elections, some politicians are adopting laughable political antics just to attract media attention and better their chances of retaining a semblance of relevance in the run-up to the elections.  Pranks of this nature make up what, in a sense, is referred to as silly season.  And one politician […]

Martin Luther King, Jr., the American civil rights leader, is reported to have said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  The truth in this quote cannot be overemphasised.  As such, I am moved to show solidarity with former governors Attahiru Bafarawa of Sokoto State and Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State over the injustice […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm that sympathizers of President Goodluck Jonathan are pushing Nigeria to the precipice, after PDP-sponsored and Police-backed militants attacked a peaceful rally in Rivers State with guns and other weapons, for the second consecutive Sunday.   In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, […]

President Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR) has approved the concession of the National Stadium in Lagos. According to Special Assistant on Media and Strategy to Honourable Minister for Sports, Julius Ogunro, the approval was granted last week. With the approval, the Honourable Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi will constitute the Project Steering Committee and the Project […]

.… Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham 9 “So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham” (Galatians 3:7&9). The word “with” is used as a function word to indicate a participant in an action or transaction. This infers that everything God promised Abraham […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has written to condole with Senate President, David Mark on the death of his younger sister, Mrs. Mary Onma-Adakole. “It is with great sadness that I write to express my heartfelt condolences to you, the Adakole John family, and the entire members of the Mark family of Oturkpo on the untimely death of […]

I must commend President Goodluck Jonathan for removing Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as National Chairman of the PDP and finally dumping him. It really is good riddance to bad rubbish because that man was a disaster to his party. PDP itself is bad enough but to have a self-conceited and vainglorious ancient dinosaur who is completely […]

Months after it was passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, a bill that criminalizes homosexual relationships in Nigeria has been signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan. The President gave his assent to the bill, which stipulates lengthy jail terms, both for same-sex marriage and public expression of same-sex intimacy, despite […]

Six people, including an orderly to Senator Gbenga Obadara, have sustained gun injuries in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of the Ogun State, after members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) disrupted a senatorial meeting by a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with gunshots. According to Senator Gbenga Obadara, the senator representing Ogun […]

Governors who decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) have vowed not to return to their original party. This is even after all but one of the PDP governors who decamped to All Progressives Congress (APC) have discovered that the grass is not greener in the APC, as many of […]

Washington is offering to wean itself and some other countries from Nigerian oil by arranging supplies from Saudi Arabia and Iran if Nigeria refuses to repeal the anti-gay law. The Obama administration is threatening to impose sanctions on Nigeria over its recent passing of an anti-gay law amid disagreements between Washington and Abuja over the […]