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…
Year: 2018
SOWORE: WHEN A 47-YEAR-OLD IS TOO YOUNG, INCONSEQUENTIAL TO BE PRESIDENT – FREDRICK NWABUFO
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…
STOP PLAYING GOD – BODE GEORGE CAUTIONS TINUBU
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.…
COMMUNAL CLASH CLAIMS 7 LIVES IN CROSS RIVER
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…
NIGERIANS SHOULD TELL FORMER PRESIDENT OBASANJO TO STOP WRITING FRIVOLOUS LETTERS – KALU
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…
A NATION IN DISTRESS
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…
APC TO HOLD ‘MAKE OR BREAK’ NEC MEETING
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…
EMEFIELE ASSIGNS DUTIES TO NEW DEPUTY GOVERNORS
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has assigned duties to the newly appointed deputy governors who assumed duty on March 28. The acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, CBN, Isaac Okoroafor, in a statement on Sunday said…
SPECIAL ADVISER: SARAKI APPOINTS EX SENATOR
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has approved the appointment of Abubakar Danladi as his Special Adviser on Special Duties. The appointment was announced through a statement by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Senate President, Yusuph Olaniyonu, on…
Democracy As Hubris: The Confession Of Ibrahim Mantu – Modiu Olaguro
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not men of property are rulers” —Aristotle. The confession by a former deputy senate president to election malpractices once again brings to fore the never ending debate on…