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The controversial court judgment last Friday, that the $15 million bribe allegedly given by former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, to former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, should be forfeited to the federal government because the Delta State government could not prove that Ibori stole the money from its coffers, is […]

Erstwhile Chief of General Staff (CGS), Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, has died.The 68-year-old died last night — one day after he was rumoured dead — in a New York Hospital where he was receiving treatment for cancer. A native of Fugar, Edo State, he rose to the peak of his career as Chief of […]

The Federal House of Representatives has threatened to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah if she fails to appear before its Committee on Aviation on Tuesday to answer questions relating to last September’s Associated Airlines plane crash in Lagos. However, with the outbreak of the scandal involving […]

Mr. Olusegun Idowu Olushesi, the chief of staff to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, is dead.  Olushesi died after a long battle with cancer of the prostate in a hospital in North Carolina, USA late on Sunday. Though his age was not immediately known, he had three children from Kofo, […]

A report on the death of erstwhile Chief of General Staff, Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe (rtd) in a London hospital has been disclaimed by his brother, Chief Joseph Alemon Akhigbe. Expressing shock over the “wide speculation”, Alemon denounced the death as well as the claim that it occurred in a London hospital.  “As I speak […]

A caucus meeting of the New Peoples Democratic Party (NPDP) stakeholders held on Sunday 27th October 2013, resulting in a series resolutions headlined by the steps to be taken should the planned peace meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan fail to yield any positive result. The meeting congratulated and commended the National Working Committee (NWC) of […]

At this time that the nation is yet to come to terms with the scandalous Oduahgate and the purchase of two armored cars for the cost of $1.6 million, the Jonathan administration can ill afford another scandal which the handling of the appointment of the new Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board portends. President Goodluck […]

As a measure of its growing influence in the continent, Dangote Group has emerged among Africa’s top 10 most valuable brands in 2013 in a survey conducted by African Business Magazine, a pan-African business magazine. In a survey tagged ‘The Brand Africa 100 table’, Dangote emerged as the most valuable brand in the consumer goods […]

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK WITH SOME CHILDREN WHO CAME TO GREET HIM AT MOUNT CAMEL  MR JOHNKENNEDY OPARA; CHIEF OF STAFF, CHIEF MIKE OGHIADOMHE;    FROM LEFT: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN PILGRIMSCOMMISSION,REV JEREMIAH JADO OF ECWA CHURCH; DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT, IKE EKWEREMADU; PRESIDENT, CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA, PASTOR AYO ORITSEJAFOR ANDPRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN AT THE HOLY FAMILY […]

…it is imperative that we arm ourselves and our people with a genuine revolutionary culture and a discipline and invincible revolutionary organisation, unshakeably committed to the principles of social justice and equity, to the liberations of our people from material and cultural deprivation and implacably opposed to all forms of exploitation of man by man. […]

The faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chaired by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje has lamented the war against it by party members and government officials loyal to the faction chaired by Alhaji Bamanga Tukuer and supported by President Goodluck Jonathan. According to the faction, leaders and public office holders sympathetic to the New PDP have […]

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has declared that the grave phenomenon of oil theft and its global support system represents another face of terrorism that has continued to remain a cog in the wheel of the nation’s high economic growth trajectory. Alison-Madueke stated this in London recently while delivering the Keynote address at […]