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 […]
US Secretary Of State Cancels Plan To Spend The Night in Abuja
Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, has changed the plan of spending Monday night in Abuja before flying back to Washington. Tillerson’s spokesman said the secretary had changed his schedule so that he would spend only a few hours in Nigeria before leaving late in the evening to fly home. He is to return to […]
‘ALBUM READYYY FINALLY’ – Davido Set To Release Sophomore Album
Nigerian singer and DMW boss, David Adeleke known as Davido is set to release his sophomore album The FIA singer made this known via his Instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/p/BgJsasnldeB/?taken-by=davidoofficial
UNIBEN confirms suicide by first-class final-year student
The management of the University of Benin, Edo State, has confirmed the death of one of its students who allegedly committed suicide. The deceased, identified only as Adams, was said to have been found dead in his room at Ekosodin community, in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state. He was said to […]
