Buhari Appoints Dokubo As Coordinator Of Amnesty Programme, Fires Boroh,
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta militants, Brigadier-General Paul Boroh (Retd). Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, announced this in a statement on Tuesday. According to Adesina, the President has ordered an investigation into the activities of the programme […]
BREAKING: Trump Fires Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of state
President Donald Trump of the US has fired Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state. Tillerson was replaced with Mike Pompeo, director of Central Intelligence Academy (CIA). The president announced this on Twitter few minutes ago. Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank […]
Dalung Accuses Lalong of Mismanaging $2bn AfDB Loan
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has asked the Plateau State Government to explain the $2bn loan it collected from the African Development Bank(AFDB) He accused the Plateau state government of mismanaging the loan from the bank. The minister said the state government was not prudent with its resources. “Where is the […]
We’re negotiating release of Dapchi schoolgirls, says Buhari
President Muhamamdu Buhari has disclosed that the federal government is negotiating the release of the schoolgirls Boko Haram abducted from Chibok and Dapchi. The Musab Al-Barnawi faction of Boko Haram is suspected of being behind the abduction. According to a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Buhari said […]
Insecurity And The Clamour For State Police: Beyond Sloganeering And Grandstanding By Jaye Gaskia
Whenever the question of restructuring and devolution of powers have been raised by the contending factions and fractions of Nigeria’s prodigal ruling class, one of the issues that have always been brought to the fore is that of State Police, alongside that of fiscal federalism. And as always, these issues like the parent concepts of […]
PHOTOS: Buhari Receives U.S Secrater Of State, Rex Tillerson In Abuja
President Buhari receives in Audience U.S. Secretary of State in State House on 12th Mar 2018 President Buhari with L-R: Col. John Walker, US Ambassador to Nigeria H.E. Mr W. Stuart Symington, Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Margaret Peterlin, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama and Chief […]
2019: South West Is Strategic To PDP’s Victory, Says Party Spokesman
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Southwest geo-political zone as particularly strategic to its “inevitable victory” at the 2019 general election. The party said the southwest remains a major support base adding that this accounts to why it will never treat matters concerning the zone with levity. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, […]
ERA To ILO: Cut Your Partnership With Tobacco Industry
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has thrown its weight behind global calls for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to cut ties with Big Tobacco. The group insists that the ILO engagements with Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation, a nonprofit funded by tobacco companies since 2002 reflects a conflict of […]
Progressive Communication And The Defence of Good Governance By Semiu Okanlawon
As a postgraduate student some years back, I chose to do a thesis on Politics and the New Media. This decision was inspired then by what I envisioned was going to be a boom in new communication religion with the burgeoning fortunes of telephony in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. With the advent of […]
My Mission is to Make Ekiti Work For All -Ojudu
Senator Babafemi Ojudu is the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters and a Governorship aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC). You were born about some six decades ago. How was growing up like in your own part of the country? It was fun for us because we were virtually raised […]
