The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately proscribe the All Progressives Congress (APC) following allegations that it financed President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign with looted funds. The party, in a statement by…
Less than a year to the next general elections in Nigeria, the biggest deficit in the political process leading to that moment is the absence of a robust, virile and effective opposition. The role of the opposition in a democracy…
Nigeria’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, and Yusuf Ali, SAN, said, weekend, that incessant clashes between farmers and herdsmen were inimical to the survival of Nigeria. While Gambari…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…