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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to tread softly on his reported plan to force Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign, considering the potential impact of such forced exit on the nation’s economy. In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National […]

Wednesday’s allegation by President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Okey Wali that President Goodluck Jonathan refused to receive a minority report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the proposed national conference has been described as untrue and incorrect. According to a statement from the Presidency on Thursday, President Jonathan is, in fact, unaware of […]

Successive Nigerian governments have deliberately created and left open a system of mammoth shadow revenue taps in the nation’s oil sector. The Federal Government has refused to address the urgent need to bring transparency and due process to the bidding through which oil blocks are allocated and the process for reviewing existing concessions; permitting corrupt […]

31 marginal fields are on the auction block; but who gets what will depend on the shifting political equation ahead of legislative and presidential elections in 2015. A sinister plot to factionalize and destabilize the opposition ahead of next year’s legislative and presidential elections involving the long-running practice of using oil blocks in shady quid […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly has waded into the controversy surrounding the inhumane treatment of two women in the Ejigbo area of the state, and have staked N1.25m for anyone who can produce information that could lead to the arrest of the perpetrators of the debasement of womanhood. The women, the wife of a […]

Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole says he has no regret for the sack of 836 teachers in the state. The governor — who was speaking in Auchi during the celebration of Allah at the 17th edition of Auchi Day, with the theme The Holy Qu’ran: Guidance for Mankind — was responding to claims […]

Some senators who had expressed interest in ditching the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) are now having a rethink after the ruling party dangled automatic tickets before them, it has been revealed. The plan of automatic tickets for the elected senators is also believed to have been devised to keep […]

  Tragedy struck early on Wednesday in Lagos, as a fuel tanker explosion resulted in the death of nine people and destroyed many properties in the Apapa area of the state. The fire that accompanied the explosion resulted in the destruction of a new generation bank, three houses and 10 vehicles —five trucks, four buses and one […]

Major oil workers’ unions, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have put off their proposed strike over the Federal Government’s plan to put on sale the country’s four refineries. 
The indefinite strike was to have started this week and would […]Read More

Though coming almost belatedly, I find it extremely expedient to share with fellow Nigerians, especially Lagosians what was supposed to be a birthday tribute to a brilliant personage I admire a lot but which I have now redirected after I laid my hand on a copy of Dr Muiz Adeyemi Banire’s profile. Though Banire clocked […]

…It Is A Lie — APC The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday warned its major rival, the All Progressives Congress (APC) to refrain from continuously dividing the country along ethnic and religious lines. But the APC had earlier denied the allegation, saying instead that all its activities are tailored towards making the country the best place […]

The Zone 5 Command of the Nigeria Police, comprising Edo, Delta and Bayelsa, has announced that it arrested a total of 150 armed robbery suspects in 2013 out of a total of 124 cases reported within the same period. Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police of the Zone, Hashimu Argungu, who disclosed this on Tuesday while […]