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  In Public Interest, in order to eliminate all further distraction and enable the nation to concentrate on issues that affect the democratic pursuit, it is necessary to make the following information available: Before the press conference held by Femi Falana and myself–that is, even before the Rivers Assembly fracas–I had been canvassed by opposing […]

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged Nigerians to hold President Goodluck Jonathan responsible if the country slides into anarchy as a result of the worsening crisis in Rivers State. Reacting to the attack on the four governors who visited Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the party said in […]

Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola has criticised the Federal Government for its hypocritical disposition to the solutions of unemployment in the country. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy had recently stressed that the level of unemployment in the country was giving the Presidency sleepless nights, saying that the government was doing […]

In what is being touted as a systematic clampdown on loyalists and the remaining security details of embattled Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi who is believed to persecuted by President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar has summoned Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Honourable […]

Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its strike. She made the plea on Tuesday while speaking with journalists after a Workshop on World Bank Initiated Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) Project in Abuja, same day the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) […]

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice (AGF) of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke has denied any wrong doing in the settlement of the dispute surrounding the Malabu oil deal. Rather, Adoke has claimed that the report of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on the Transaction Involving the Federal Government and Shell/Agip Companies and Malabu Oil and […]

The sour relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is festering even further as governors from four northern states who were embarrassed and held hostage on Tuesday by protesters at the Port Harcourt Airport, Rivers State, when they visited Governor Rotimi Amaechi on a solidarity visit have asked Inspector-General, Mohammed […]

Just as the shocking news of her crashed marriage hit Nigerians with shock, popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, better known as Jenifer, has gone into hiding. The talented actress married Kehinde Almaroof Oloyede, a Lagos-based socialite on 26th May in 2012 in a talk-of-the-town event that spanned almost one week. Attempts of www.www.aso.rocks search engine […]

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the deployment of Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Mrs. Fatima Bamidele to the Ministry of Finance. A statement by the Director (Communications) in the OHCSF, Mr. Tope Ajakaiye, quoted the HOS, Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji as directing that processes for handing and taking over should be completed […]

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde is expected to appear on Wednesday before the House of Representatives Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, which is conducting a public hearing to determine the status of assets seized or recovered by the EFCC since inception.  Though Lamorde was scheduled to appear […]

The Nigerian Government must endeavour to respect and fully comply with its Rome Statute obligations, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said. In a statement issued by the court on Tuesday, President, Assembly of States Parties to the ICC, Ms Tina Intelmann lamented that Nigeria refused to facilitate the arrest of Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir, […]

Education Rights Coalition (ERC), an education rights campaigning organization, has rejected the appointment of Professor Wale Omole as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). The tertiary institution is jointly owned and managed by the Oyo and Osun State governments. The group is accusing newly appointed Omole of sponsoring […]