Over the past few weeks, the abduction of the school girls at Chibok, Borno State has underscored the threat we have been facing as a nation in recent times from the actions of misguided persons masquerading as adherents of Islam. Our hearts are with families who have lost loved ones in this cycle of senseless […]
Ilorin perhaps came into existence five to seven hundred years ago. It was a place with hard rocks for repairing or sharpening weapons. It was surrounded by hills and forests inhabited by many wild animals – elephants, lions, snakes and several birds. The original place was not far from one or two fountains which are […]
Islamic militants are scrambling to distance themselves from the recent acts of the African militants Boko Haram, expressing their unease with the news that Boko Haram orchestrated mass kidnappings of schoolgirls to sell into marriage — and according to the New York Times, al Qaeda, which has maintained an “awkward” relationship with the increasinly unstable […]
Action by the Nigerian government and international partners to go after the group that has held more than 200 girls captive in that country should have come sooner, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. “I think the government should do all it can to get the girls free,” he […]
By Constance Okechukwu Watching Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso address the matriculating students of Northwest University, Kano, on national television, one thing was clear: the man whom students at the ceremony ought to have looked up to as a role model is the opposite of what a governor should be behaviour-wise. Instead of the governor to […]
The State Security Service (SSS) has prevented the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, from traveling abroad. Mr. Sanusi was stopped at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, in Kano, on his way to France for an onward journey to Mecca for the lesser Hajj. The SSS operatives also seized […]
Chief Mrs. Odochi Orji, Osinulo Maranma is indisputably the first lady of Abia State by the strong implication that she is a better and spiritual half of Chief T.A. Orji Ochendo. Before her were six predecessor-ladies who occupied the position of the first lady, namely: Mrs Grace Ajobena-1991-92, Chinyere Onu-1992-93, Chinyere Ike Nwosu-93-94, Florence Ejoor-94-96, […]
Oyewale Oyelola Egyptian on 26 and 27 of May 2014 will go to polling stations to elect their president for the second time with three years after revolution. El-Sisi, former head of Egyptian Military and Hamdeen Sabahi, a former presidential candidate in the 2012 presidential election were announced as the official candidates by the Presidential […]
By Femi Ayelabowo Everywhere in the world, there are people who go into politics because they feel a genuine call to service. Others do so, either for self aggrandisement or in furtherance of some ignoble objectives or simply to protect their crooked and morally unscrupulous background. Whatever the circumstances, it is our character that determines […]
By General Muhammadu Buhari Sinister terror and hatred have again reached from the shadows to steal the lives of innocent Nigerians. In Nyanya, seventy-two people were killed by a car bomb. Hundreds more were injured in the devastation. Their killings served no purpose except for those who exalt in evil. The bomb blast quickly came […]
Dear Niger delta delegates, this letter serves to respectfully notify you that although the conference isn’t sovereign as the Pan Niger delta Conference (PNDC) held on January 28, 2014 demanded like other groups from the region and beyond. Many fronts, including states’ representatives from the region or, all of you are present at the talk-shop. […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Since the return of democratic structures in 1999, Plateau State have remained a theatre of sort, where a number of bizarre and extreme political measures have been experimented; churning outcome in unusual proportion which has continued to threaten and shake it right to its rocky crust. From the declaration of emergency rule […]
2 years after, the governor of Osun State, “Engr” Rauf Aregbesola is yet to pay any retirement benefit to the Teachers who were massively “sacked” among other workers by his government in the year 2012. These teachers some of whom are either aged or bread winners of their various families have remained subjected to varying […]
Kayode Adelowokan Reactions have continued to trailed the roaring level of insecurity in Nigeria following the Monday, April 14, 2014, bomb blast that hit the most populous Nyanya motor park in Abuja, security analysts have hulled the blame on Federal Government for its clueless attitude to the country’s security matters. Giving figures of the victims […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe Muslim-Muslim ticket in the forthcoming 2015 Nigeria’s presidential polls may be good option for the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) if they intend to get more votes than the 12 million they garnered in 2011. Many Nigerians have condemned the Muslim -Muslim ticket but they forgot that APC is neither a […]
By Bamidele Aturu The indictment last week by the National Human Rights Commission of the Army and the State Security Service authorities for the indefensible killing of eight innocent and harmless citizens in an uncompleted building at Apo District of the Federal Capital Territory on September 20, 2013 is quite refreshing. But more pleasant is […]
By Obinna Akukwe Tobias Idika, the Ohanaeze President of Kano, who was suspected to be poisoned by agents of Boko Haram and state sponsored terrorists, has been slated for burial on the 17 th of April, 2014 at his hometown, Amuru Abam in Arochukwu/Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. Tobias Michael Idika was the […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo On Saturday 5th April 2014, at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel in London, the Association of Nigerian Academics in the UK (ANAUK) led by Councillor Adedamola Aminu, the acting Mayor of the London Borough of Lambeth and a lecturer himself, recognised the achievements of Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, OON, former First Lady of […]
By Femi Ayelabowo As a political party peopled by strange bed-fellows with well-stated, often-divergent interests, many people have always seen the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a disaster waiting to happen. From day one, it was obvious the party did not hold together all the political tendencies that conveniently find shelter within its fold, though […]
Oyewale Oyelola South West is strategic to Nigeria economic being the host Nigeria economic capital-Lagos which is also former capital city of the Nigeria. South West comprises; Lagos, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti states. The history of south west integration dated back the pre-independence era when the country was operating region government, the regional […]
