Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has called on the old generation to give up power and give the younger ones the opportunity to steer the affairs of the nation. He said that the old generation has overstayed in…
Month: April 2018
LOOTERS LlST: JONATHAN’S SPOKESMAN COUNTERS LAI MOHAMMED
Reno Omokri, a spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan, has launched a blistering attack on the Nigerian government and the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, over two lists of alleged looters released by the administration. Mr. Mohammed had on Sunday…

POLICE REARRESTS SUSPECT LINKED TO DINO MELAYE
Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama, the last of the suspected criminals linked to Dino Melaye, a Senator representing Kogi West was allegedly planned and coordinated their escape from Police cell with the aid of some Nigeria Police officers at the Special…
MAIDUGURI:BOKO HARAM ATTACK CLAIMS SCORES OF LIVES
No fewer than 15 persons are feared dead and 55 others sustained injuries in a Sunday night attack by Boko Haram insurgents at Bale community in the outskirts of Maiduguri. The at echoes from sporadic gunshots and multiple explosions which…

KOGI STATE AND BAD GOVERNANCE
Kogi State is perpetually in the news, but almost always, for the wrong reasons. The stories from the state are hardly ever about development, progress or project commission. They are usually about political differences, conflicts, kidnapping, high- handedness, impunity, corruption…

SECOND BATCH OF ALLEGED LOOTERS AND THE AMOUNT ALLEGEDLY EMBEZZLED
The Nigerian government has released more names of alleged looters of the treasury during the Goodluck Jonathan administration. The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, in a statement also criticised the opposition PDP for its reaction to the first names of…

OLUWO ADOPTS EMIR OF YORUBA LAND TITLE
The Oluwo of Iwo land, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has defended his adoption of the Emir of Yoruba land title, saying it was a “metaphor” of the disunity among traditional rulers in Yoruba land. The Oluwo on Saturday formally adopted the title…
SENATORS IN TUG OF WAR – FRED ITUA
Across the globe in modern democracies, face-off between the executive and legislative arms of government is not uncommon. Thus, it is not peculiar to Nigeria. In sane democracies across the world, the legislative and executive arms come into friction from…

DIVISION LOOMING IN THE APC OVER NWC TENURE ELONGATION
Indications emerged yesterday that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may currently be divided over earlier resolution at the last NEC meeting of the party that a technical committee be set up to review…