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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended its leader, President Goodluck Jonathan for the mature and timely intervention in ending the bickering among leaders of the party as a result of the outcome of the 2015 general elections. This followed the outcome of a peace meeting held by President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday night with the members […]

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote claims he still harbours hopes of one day buying Arsenal. The Nigerian has an estimated fortune of $15 billion (£10.4billion) and is reported to have wanted to buy into the Gunners when former director Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith was selling her shares in 2010. Arsenal’s current majority shareholder is American tycoon […]

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has described the Igbos as people who can be predicted when it comes to voting. According to him, the Igbos vote based on their stomach and have an incurable money mindedness. Prof. Soyinka said this while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African […]

The President-elect Gen Buhari met with Mr. Tunde Thompson, one of the journalists he jailed for disobeying Decree 4 during his military administration in 1984. Decree 4 was promulgated by Gen Buhari to checkmate press reports against his military regime, a policy many believed was against the freedom of speech. Buhari and Tunde Thompson met at […]

Reports say nothing less than 40 migrants, mostly Africans and Syrians, drowned after a boat carrying them to Italy deflated in the Mediterranean sea on Sunday May 3. This came a few weeks after over 700 migrants drowned in the same Mediterranean sea, a situation described as the worst tragedy ever seen in the Mediterranean. According […]

According to Punch newspaper, the blame game among top Peoples Democratic Party members continued on Tuesday with the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, saying praise singers and insincere people misled President Goodluck Jonathan during the electioneering period. Mu’azu, who is under pressure from some members of the party to resign for not doing enough to […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who is one of those calling for the resignation of the NWC members, said he had evidence that Mu’azu helped the APC to win the elections on March 28 and April 11. Fayose, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, wondered […]

The crisis that hit the hitherto peaceful Enugu State House of Assembly early on Monday has worsened as a group of 15 lawmakers, led by Speaker, Eugene Odoh have served  Governor Sullivan Chime his impeachment notice, according to Thisday reports. They intend to remove him for alleged gross misconduct. The action of the group of […]

The All Progressive Congress (APC), factional speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr Adewale Omirin has challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction of the Ekiti State House of Assembly challenging the attempt to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State. Counsel […]

Police have sealed up the Niger state House of Assembly stopping members and staff from gaining entry over alleged speculation of a plot to impeach the state governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu. A detachment of police and members of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) took over the premises of the assembly on Tuesday as […]

There is a major likelihood that the Northern section of Nigeria would account for the four topmost positions in the country, even as it becomes more apparent  that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would unable to enforce a zoning formula that would ensure the equitable distribution of key posts in the incoming administration, says Thisday in […]

WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT LATUNDE ODEKU OF NIGERIA, THE FIRST BLACK US-TRAINED NEUROSURGEON: Today, we will take a look at an outstanding Nigerian. An excellent doctor. The first black neurosurgeon to be trained in the United States. A patriot who sacrificed all for his nation. But he has largely remained in obscurity (especially to […]

No fewer than 100 people, including a pastor and three soldiers, were killed at the weekend and Monday in Plateau and Taraba states. Seventy of the deaths were recorded in Karim Lamido and Takum local government areas of Taraba State and 30 in two villages at the Barkin Ladi LGA   of Plateau State. It was […]

According to Punch newspaper, President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday met separately with two leading pastors in the country based in Ogun State. Jonathan met with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye; and the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo. The […]

The pictures here show the original Julius Berger, the world renowned construction magnate whose construction company, Julius Berger, built most of Nigerian bridges, major roads and many edifices. Julius Berger was born in 1862 in Zempelburg, a small town in Germany. His father sent him to Berlin at the age of 12 to take up an apprenticeship with […]

President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans to address the root causes of recent racially-tinged unrest, focusing not just on police actions but improving opportunities for young black men. As police again mobilized on the streets of Baltimore to calm tempers after a false report of a man shot by officers, Obama weighed in on […]

The Eze Ndigbo in Australia has been jailed for six years in Australia for running drug rings and a host of other crimes, reports the Daily Telegraph of Australia. Chief (Mazi) Maximus Osuamadi likes to be known as ‘The Chief’ and he rides a Mercedes-Benz and he ran a string of businesses to cover up […]

Every human being who has seized to have a healthy normal life has had weaknesses. By, weaknesses we do not mean health related issues, but those tiny mole hills or mountains for some of us women, on which we normally trip upon or find it necessary to take some Prozac for. So here is a […]

Popular morning presenter on Classic FM, Sylvester Ojigbede, popularly known as Sly has died. He died last night after a brief illness that had to do with his spinal chord. He leaves behind a wife and two children. (Source: LIB).