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Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given the go-ahead for full implementation of the 2012 Stephen Oronsaye’s Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies Report. As a result of the announcement, there will be merging, subsuming, scraping and relocation of several agencies of government at the federal level. Minister of […]
Continue ReadingChief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has on Monday, sworn in 11 new Justices to the bench of the Nigerian Supreme Court, charging them not to allow their personal ambition to cloud their sense of judgement. Ariwoola further warned that the interaction of the new Justices with people of unviable inclinations and pedigree, […]
Continue ReadingIn spite of the warning issued by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, on Sunday, human rights group known as the “Take It Back Movement” on Monday hit the streets of Lagos State to protest against the soaring price of food and the high cost of living in the country. Fayoade said that […]
Continue ReadingPreparatory to his exit from power last year, President Muhammadu Buhari warned all of us to let him be after office: “Nobody should ask me to come and give any evidence in any court; otherwise whoever it is, he will be in trouble because all important things are on record.” Buhari uttered those words in […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, has said approximately only 5% of people in Nigeria have more than N500,000 in their bank accounts. Mr. Edun, who disclosed this on Friday in an interview on Channels Television, said Nigerian Government plans to rectify the economic imbalances that disproportionately favour a small […]
Continue ReadingEconomic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to lift economic sanctions on Niger Republic, Mali and Guinea. The resolution was taken at the extraordinary summit on the peace, political and security situation in the ECOWAS sub-region in Abuja on Saturday. The sanctions are to be lifted with immediate effect. The regional bloc, however, […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian Muslim cleric has declared that Mrs. Tinubu, “being an infidel should be put to death as provided for in the Quran,” even though he did not provide any chapter or verse of the Quran to support his claim. See what he said below: “Now, Tinubu’s wife is an infidel, an unbeliever. Not only […]
Continue ReadingA Mississippi cop was arrested by her colleagues for allegedly shoplifting sneakers while on duty and in uniform. Now-fired Columbus Officer Robin Conner, 33, was busted Wednesday, Feb, 21, at Dick’s Sporting Goods when an employee stopped her walking out in a $140 pair of tennis shoes, her police chief, Joseph Daughtry, told the Columbus […]
Continue ReadingThe Parliamentary System bills sponsored by 60 members of the House of Representatives have continued to receive support from prominent Nigerians, as former Vice Chancellor of Ahmmadu Bello University and Convener of Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has endorsed the call for a return to Parliamentary System of Government. Abdullahi, a professor of Agriculture, gave […]
Continue ReadingI have noted with deep concern and sadness, the past and recent developments unfolding in the West African sub-region, particularly the pronouncement by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger of their intention to exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). As one of the founders of our regional economic community, it is incumbent […]
Continue ReadingRev. Fr. Kelvin Ugwu, Nigerian Catholic priest, has seemingly taken a dig at people who said they will teach the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, a lesson during the 2023 general election. In a Facebook post last week Saturday, the priest wrote: “We will teach Obi a lesson,” they said. […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked the Nigerian Presidency, the Federal Judicial Commission, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies, to submit their anti-corruption strategies, as part of the agency’s efforts to stop the abuse of contracts. The Ministries, Departments and Agencies have up to March 1, 2024 to submit their strategies to […]
Continue ReadingRecently, faced with escalating violence across Nigeria, the president, Bola Tinubu, reportedly agreed with state governors to establish state police. The news excited those calling for state police in Nigeria. But the agitation for state police is misguided; it is based on shallow reasoning, not on a rational, hard-nosed analysis of the potential consequences. To […]
Continue ReadingFuneral service of the late Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu was held at the St. Andrews Church, Imola Street, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria, on Friday February 23, 2024. The governor died on 27th December 2023 after a protracted illness. The funeral service was attended by Vice President Kashim Shettima, many state governors, APC National […]
Continue ReadingAmerican television personality, actress, and author, Porsha Dyanne Williams and Nigerian businessman, Simon Guobadia’s marriage is reportedly coming to an end 15 months after their grand wedding in Nigeria. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star actress, filed for divorce from Guobadia on Thursday, February 22 in Atlanta, according to court documents. According to People magazine, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it has published a comprehensive 526-page document on the 2023 general election. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, in a statement issued Friday, said the report showcases the election’s unparalleled diversity in party representation, demonstrating significant democratic progress. He said: […]
Continue ReadingAnglican Bishop of Ikwerre Diocese, in River State, Nigeria, Dr. Blessing Enyindah, has called on President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency address the increasing hunger and hardship currently facing Nigerians. Many Nigerians have been begging the government to find solutions to the continued increase in the prices of food in the country. […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, military authorities in Guinea dissolved the interim government it had put in place since June 2022. They pledged to appoint a new administration. We recall that Colonel Mamady Doumbouya toppled President Alpha Conde in September 2021, in a coup hailed by many Guineans. Conde invited it upon himself by forcing through a controversial […]
Continue ReadingGodswill Akpabio (then Akwa Ibom State Governor) once stated that only the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan could guarantee peace in Nigeria. At an interdenominational church service beamed live on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) network on 2 January 2015, he declared: “As a PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) chieftain, I have found the solution to the peace we […]
Continue ReadingImmediate past president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata, has on Friday, won the Edo State Labour Party (LP) governorship primary election. The Returning Officer for the election and Deputy Governor of Abia State, Ikechukwu Emetu, declared Akpata as the winner after collating the results. Emetu said the lawyer polled 316 votes […]
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