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Before the merger that led to the All Progressive Congress (APC), I was a little skeptical and apprehensive about its success especially considering what the original merging entities, that is the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) […]

Unable to curtail the growing influence of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Abubakar Baraje, President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday ordered the sealing of the secretariat just opened by the faction. There had been reports that the Presidency had set up a high-powered security machinery to scuttled the opening of […]

In my piece last week, I showed us how Jesus inherited a great name. Today, I will expound on how God bestowed on him a great name. Remember, men are either born to a great name, make their name great by achievements, or have great name conferred on them. The name Jesus came by all three means. […]

A serious legal crisis is brewing between Bishop David Oyedepo, controversial General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, better known as Winners Chapel, and the Ogun State Government, following a physical assault by the Bishop’s boys on some government officials who visited a school owned by the clergyman over tax issues. The Ogun State Government […]

As if realising the dismal rating of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the eyes of Nigerians, Minister of Information, Labaran Maku has appealed to Nigerians to bear with his boss because two years are insufficient to turn the country around. Speaking on Friday while delivering a lecture entitled Sector’s Perspective of the Transformation Agenda at […]

National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur today instituted legal action against the faction of the party led by erstwhile Acting National Chairman Abubakar Baraje, further deteriorating a crisis that has defied frantic moves by leading lights of the party for solution.  In the suit before the Federal High Court sitting […]

An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a Nigerian actress, Nancy Ndukwe, 26, to two months imprisonment for stealing an Ipad, an Iphone and jewellery worth N190, 000.   Ms. Ndukwe, who was a resident of Jikwoyi in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria confessed in court that she actually stole the items from her friend. Her […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has been named by Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma to the multilateral body’s Observer Mission to the Maldives presidential election holding on Saturday, September 7, 2013.  According to a statement of confirmation issued by Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr. kayoed idowu, the […]

Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi on Thursday accused Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu of plotting to take his life. According to Amaechi, Mbu has been desperately seeking information on his private movements from his security details, and only recently redeployed one of his escorts for failing to submit to the […]

“Except in the eyes of the extremely naive and incurable swindlers in the corridors of power, this country has already collapsed; only that the horror of its probable disintegration would be difficult to face.” – Godwin Onyeacholem Nothing proves the assertion that the edifice called Nigeria has effectively collapsed and is in need of an […]

The ongoing crisis in the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has proceeded to another level, following the decision of the faction of the party led by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje to see to the imprisonment of National Chairman Bamanga Tukur for contempt of court. Condemning Wednesday’s press conference during which Tukur threatened to […]

The crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Anambra State has taken another dimension, as the merging partners, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), have severed ties with the mega-opposition party. The merger would have been an advantage for Senator Chris Ngige, the APC candidate in the […]