President Muhammadu Buhari has declared the intention to run for the second term after months of speculation. The President said this on Monday at a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership.…
The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed that those behind last Thursday’s armed robbery and killings in Offa, Kwara State, would be arrested and brought to justice to serve as deterrent to others. Recall that seven police officers and scores of residents…
The abduction in Chibok on April 2014, when more than 200 girls were taken, seemed to have a similar recount with the Dapchi kidnapping of schoolgirls on February 19th, 2018 but in a comic style. On the 19th day of…
I have watched the video of the verbal duel between Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, and Adebayo Shittu, minister of communications, five times now. I spent every second watching that recording in a theatre of pain and depression. Nigeria’s…
A former Deputy National Chairman (South West) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has described as a “rubbish statement” a call by former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that Nigerians should not accept the party’s apology.…
At least, seven persons may have died following renewed hostilities between the people of Onyadama and Inyima in Obubra and Yakurr Local Government Areas of Cross River State. Hundreds of residents, especially women and children, have fled the warring communities…
Former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu yesterday defied the order of Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose not to come to the state to campaign for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari. He slammed ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo for his attacks on…
Nigeria is seriously distressed. Not only has it failed to serve as a melting pot for ethnic, religious and primordial cleavages, the Nigerian state has over the years, tended to reinforce these fault lines. Thus, we can only talk of…
As the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) today holds what has been dubbed a make or break National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting by some of its chieftains, the party has been split into three, along top runners in the race for…