BREAKING: President Buhari Arrives Bauchi
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Bauchi State on a two-day working visit. The presidential plane touched down at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport, Bauchi at about 10:20 am on Thursday. President Buhari was welcomed at the airport by the governors of Bauchi and Adamawa states, Mr Muhammed Abubakar and Mr Mohammed Jibrilla, […]
JUST IN: PDP senators call for Buhari’s impeachment
Some senators have called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari. The call follows the senate’s debate on the unapproved spending of $496 million by the federal government on the purchase of some fighter jets from the US government. Buhari had approved the withdrawal of the money from the excess crude account without the backing […]
VIDEO: Toke Makinwa Reveals Six-year Battle With Fibroids
Toke Makinwa, Nigerian radio personality, says she has been battling with fibroids for the past six years. The ‘On Becoming’ author shared this on Wednesday because “someone out there is struggling too”. “I have been battling fibroid for 6 going on 7 years. I think I was diagnosed 7 years ago,” she said on ‘Toke […]
NAMA Moves To Improve Internally Generated Revenue
As part of measures to effectively meet its core obligation of air navigation service provision within the Nigerian airspace to stakeholders, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has begun moves to shore up its revenue base. Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, Managing Director, NAMA, who disclosed the development, in a remark while receiving the report of the […]
Suspected Herdsmen Attack Benue Villages, Kill 16 More People
Suspected armed herdsmen have killed 16 persons in Ali Agundu and Tsav council wards of Guma Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. The separate attacks, which were carried out on both settlements simultaneously, took place barely one day after two priests and 17 other people were killed in Gwer East LGA of the state. Chairman […]
Ojudu Ends Councils Tour, Asks Delegates To Vote According To Conscience
The local council tour embarked upon by Senator Babafemi Ojudu, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, climaxed yesterday amidst pump and pageantry in Ekiti State capital city, Ado, as loyalists, friends, associates and fans trooped out in solidarity. Ojudu is one of the leading aspirants in the state’s governorship election slated for July 14, 2018. […]
PDP senator on ‘looters’ list arraigned for ‘N805m fraud’
Peter Nwaoboshi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator, on Wednesday appeared before a federal high court, Lagos, over an alleged N805 million fraud. Nwaoboshi, who represents Delta north, was arraigned on a two-count charge of money laundering and fraud alongside two companies namely: Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd. He pleaded not […]
Their Desperation And Our Despair: Charting A Path To 2019 By Jaye Gaskia
The recent trends in the polity are once again assuming alarming and potentially catastrophic proportions as it is usual with Nigeria’s congenitally inept ruling class, across all its fractions and factions, once a general election is approaching and on the horizon. If it is true that the ruling class is inherently irresponsible, gluttonously greedy, and […]
APC chairmanship: Oyegun says endorsement of Oshiomhole is childish
John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described as “absolutely childish” the endorsement of Adams Oshiomhole, former Edo governor, by south-south stakeholders of the party. He made this known to journalists at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday. “It was childish, absolutely childish. Voting is done at convention and […]
2019: Nigeria’s Emerging Political Leaders
A strong indication of both the quality and failure of politics in Nigeria, as the people look forward to the next general elections in 2019, is the manner in which virtually “every” Nigerian believes that he or she is good enough to be President of Nigeria. This may speak to a deepening of political consciousness, […]
