Oronto Douglas’s Sister Abductors Demand N500m
The gunmen who kidnapped Augusta Douglas-Ayam, sister of Special Adviser to the President on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Oronto Douglas, have contacted the family of the victim to demand a…
2015: No Man Can Stop What God Wants to Do for Me — Ikuforiji
Just 14 months to the general elections in Nigeria, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who is believed to be interested in the governorship…
Jonathan Welcomes Nigeria Election to UN Security Council
Nigeria has emerged a member of the United Nations Security Council, alongside Saudi Arabi, Chad, Chile and Lithuania, who also won seats in the election today. All five countries contested…
Group Berates Churches for High Cost of Mission Schools Amid Pastors’ Opulence
Anti-corruption group, Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) has criticised Nigerian churches for founding tertiary institutions of learning with offerings and tithes of members of the congregation and the going ahead to fix…
IOC Divestments Won’t Cause Crisis, NNPC Assures
Insinuations in some quarters that the recent spate of divestments from certain onshore oil blocks by some international oil companies (IOC) may lead to crisis in the nation’s oil and…
APC to Begin Membership Registration in November
Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed has disclosed that the party would begin the registration of its members nationwide next month. Although Mohammed…
APC Slams Patience Jonathan over Honorary Award
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as the height of insensitivity, the decision of First Lady Patience Jonathan to receive an Honorary Doctorate award in far away South Korea…
Editorial: African Leaders and the Mo Ibrahim Prize
For the fourth time in five years, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership – the world’s biggest individual prize – was not awarded, because “after careful consideration”…
President Jonathan’s Confusion About National Dialogue
President Jonathan announced on October 1, 2013 his intention to convoke a national conference at which there would be no issues excluded from discussion. He then inaugurated on October 7,…
As Anambra People go to the polls
I am intimately connected to Anambra State. My wife Chukwunonso hails from there. However my interest in Anambra state goes slightly beyond the type an ordinary in-law should have. I…