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As this is the first plenary session of this Conference, let me use this opportunity to welcome you all to Abuja for this gathering of the World Economic Forum. Nigeria is proud to host this event, the first time the Forum is coming to West Africa. We wish you a fruitful conference and a productive […]

The death of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, though coming at a very ripe old age, is still difficult to accept with equanimity, especially within the legal profession. Justice Oputa gave all his life and energy for the development of the law, the maintenance of the etiquette of the legal profession and the sanctity of the Bench. […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress is deeply saddened by another bomb blast at Nyanya, Abuja, which has left about 19 persons  dead and several others injured. As was the case in the first bomb blast at Nyanya, the majority of the victims were workers on a day they were celebrating the  May Day.

 It Is evident […]

Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will be used for the Ekiti State governorship election on June 21, 2014, and the Osun State governorship election on August 9, 2014; but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will not deploy card readers for the governorship elections. Rather, the card readers will be used along with PVCs for the […]

1.My Distinguished Colleagues and Bosses, Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 2.I welcome you all back from your working short Easter break, and I am glad to see everyone hale and hearty. 3. For all Nigerians, this year’s Easter was foreshadowed by sorrow, gloom and anxiety.  A few days before Good Friday, there was a […]

This week, I invite you to consider the following excerpts from Toyin Dawodu’s response to Forbes’ (a foremost international business magazine) conclusions from its interview with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy.  Dawodu is Managing Partner of Capital Investment Group in the United States, and he wrote as follows: […]

Preparatory to the governorship election in Ekiti State scheduled for 21st June, 2014, and that in Osun State fixed for 9th August, 2014, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently distributed the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) of voters duly registered in 2011. The Commission also conducted Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for the benefit of those […]

Tuesday 15th April, 2014 cast a different shadow on the hearts of many Rotarians and indeed on the hearts of many mothers in and around Garki Family Health Centre; a departure from gloom and horror of a vicious attack on the community of Nyanya, Abuja, a day earlier. Thanks a lot to Sir Emeka Offor, […]

This is a critical moment in the history of our country. As has been said, no single event has threatened our collective peace and security than the current Boko Haram insurgency currently ravaging some parts of the country. As if to assert that the insurgency/insecurity is a national emergency, the Abuja bombing of Monday April […]

The letter written by Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa state to his colleague northern governors as published in some major news Media is an unmitigated leadership disaster and a sad betrayal of trust by a major beneficiary of the Nigerian Nation. The content of the Governor’s  letter unfortunately exposes him as lacking a sense of […]

SUBJECT: THE CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEES WHEREAS we have carefully reviewed the membership of the Committee as released by the Conference Secretariat and wish to register our strong objection to the way and manner the secretariat composed the said committees. Whereas before the composition of the Committees, the leadership of the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not suspended the plan for constituency delineation, contrary to claims by Daily Trust in its editorial today, Wednesday, April 16th, 2014. Also, the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has never blamed the National Assembly for not passing an enabling law for the exercise. No such law is […]