Nigeria’s Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal is one man that courts controversy consistently. – Lawal has been chided severally for his choice of words in public functions. – A former minister has called the SGF to order. Nigeria’s former minister of external affairs and deputy chairman of the 2014 […]

Read More Professor Bolaji Akinyemi berates Lawal for calling 2014 national Confab delegates ‘boys’.

Democracy is sustained by the will and mandate of the people. The people decide how, at what times and to what corners the democracy tilts. One doesn’t know for how much longer the hegemony against the will of Nigerians will hold. It hurts to be reminded of what is becoming of the National conference report. […]

Read More BISHOP KUKAH SPITS FIRE TO BUHARI:  MR PRESIDENT, YOU CANNOT PUT ASIDE THE 2014 NATIONAL CONFAB REPORT. NIGERIA ALSO NEEDS A REFERENDUM.

Bolaji Akinyemi, deputy chairman of the 2014 national conference, says there is no point “begging” President Muhammadu Buhari to implement recommendations of the conference. The conference, which was convened by former President Goodluck Jonathan, had 492 delegates from every part of the country. They deliberated on the operational structure and system on which the country […]

Read More Professor Bolaji Akinyemi: We won’t beg Buhari to implement Confab report… the problems will remain. 

Professor Wole Soyinka has lent his voice to recent calls for the restructuring of Nigeria, saying decentralization of the country would ensure healthy rivalry. The Nobel laureate also stated that the sovereignty of the nation is negotiable. Soyinka stated this on Tuesday when he paid a visit to Punch, adding that it was wrong for […]

Read More Nigeria’s sovereignty is negotiable. Let those who don’t want to stay, go. – By Professor wole Soyinka.

 Signs $8.5bn ‘potential investment’ with NORINCO Nigeria is looking toward China to raise about $50 billion to upgrade and build new oil and gas infrastructure, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, who is currently in the Asian country to hold an investment roadshow, has said. Kachikwu, in an interview he granted […]

Read More Kachikwu in China, Shops for $50bn Investment for Oil and Gas Sector.

Before last year’s presidential election, no one thought it necessary to ask president Muhammadu Buhari, who was then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), how he hoped to work the magic of achieving his promised exchange rate parity between the naira and dollar. It was, however, apparently sufficient for him and many hopeful others […]

Read More Buhari getting the change he didn’t bargain for.

*Says APC-led Government will soon lose support of Nigerians *Adds I’m ready to carry the cross Senate President Bukola Saraki on Monday, said that with the ongoing alleged forgery case of the 2015 Standing Order against him and by extension, the National Assembly, there was a clear indication that President Muhammadu Buhari was not in […]

Read More Alleged Forgery: A cabal has seized Buhari’s govt, says Saraki

So, after all the feint and razzle-dazzle, the victory dance of Osagie Ize-Iyamu would be aborted even before it started. For the gangling matador expected to lead PDP’s chariot against the foe on September 10, how ironic that the first attack came, barely 24hrs later, in form of a vicious dagger-stab in the back from […]

Read More Edo: Political obsequy of the godfather. By Louis Odion, FNGE

In an exclusive gotten by THISDAY Newspaper monday, the new acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, was said to have on Friday last week, allegedly written to the presidency to retire 30 senior officers. The officers who are of the rank of Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of police, were said to have been penned […]

Read More Acting Police IG Allegedly Writes To Presidency, Recommends Immediate Retirement of 30 Senior Officers.

The husband of slain Bridget Agbahime, who was killed recently in Kano by Muslim fanatics, Pastor Mike Agbahime, met with Governor Rochas Okorocha, at the weekend, and narrated how his wife was murdered by a mob. He told a visibly shocked Okorocha the gory details of how his wife was gruesomely murdered in his presence […]

Read More Bridget Agbahime: Widower Visits Governor Okorocha, Narrates Wife’s Death at the hands of fanatics in Kano.

  Tinubu, it was gathered, had rallied his media, including major Nigerian news outlets, print, electronic, and social media to fight down the ex-general for entirely scorning his interests, and breaching major promises made during the electioneering campaign. Several news headlines exposing the hidden side of the Buhari’s regime have been rocking the news media. […]

Read More APC crisis latest – Why Tinubu unleashed his bloggers against Buhari.

Stop it: For the Igbos that are fond of calling Yorubas betrayers, STOP IT. You are very very wrong. The worst betrayers are Igbos. Like it or not. Many a Igbo, for a few bills can abandon what will benefit all and do what benefits self. If you go by the history of this nation, […]

Read More Opinion: When it comes to betrayers the  Igbos lead, not Yorubas. By Maria Ude Nwachi (Afikpo Chic)

A BBC radio documentary on the events leading up to the independence of Nigeria, Britain’s former colony, charged the British government with interference in the election to ensure the result was in line with its interests. The programme cited two files held in the British National archives covering the period leading up to independence in […]

Read More Britain rigged election before Nigerian independence.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was attacked in detention by an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mr. Fani-Kayode, who served as director of media and publicity during the campaign of former President Goodluck Jonathan, is facing a 17-count charge bordering on unlawful […]

Read More EFCC Operative Allegedly Manhandles Fani-Kayode In Custody.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has released a list of 100 out of a total of 217 “Chronic Debtors” in their books, including firms and individuals, as authorized by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).   Surprisingly and curiously, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, whose assets were seized a few days ago over N11 billion […]

Read More AMCON Publishes First Batch of 217 “Chronic Debtors”

A meeting between the anti-Saraki group’s so-called Unity Forum and pro-Saraki’s Like Minds, had in attendance 10 senators – five from each of the two camps. It took place at the Asokoro residence of Aliyu Wammako, a former Sokoto State governor. A Senator, a member of the Unity Forum, who attended the meeting but asked […]

Read More Anti-Saraki Senators back down, rally round embattled Senate President.

There seems to be no let-up in the leadership crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the combatants continue to dig deeper into the trenches. The party’s embattled National Chairman; Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff Friday accused the Chairman of the PDP caretaker committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and Secretary of the committee, Senator Ben Obi […]

Read More Makarfi, Obi Working For APC Chieftain – Sheriff.

The many cases of alleged uncovered diversion of funds meant for the rehabilitation of dilapidated public schools in the State under the administration of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has been described by the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as shocking and wicked. The chairman of the State PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, made […]

Read More Rivers PDP – The Rate Of Looting Under Amaechi Is Shocking.

It’s fair to say that there was more than a little spin from both campaigns in the lead up to the vote, so here’s the truth We had claim, counter claim; claims of lies, claims of lying about lies; claims of fact, claims of using misleading facts.  It would be fair to say Britain’s political […]

Read More EU referendum: 40 facts about Britain and the EU that  helped us decide how to vote.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday summoned top commanders of the service to the Army headquarters for an emergency security meeting especially on the recent allegation that some top officers of the service approached a militant group to solicit support to topple the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration. The meeting which […]

Read More Coup d’etat Panic: Army Chief Summons Top Commanders To Emergency Meeting.

 It was reported a short while ago that the militant group, Joint Niger Delta Liberation force had warned Buhari that there was a military coup brewing with the aim to take him out. The army have since denied such an allegation saying that there were no such plans by the military. But reports indicate that […]

Read More Fear of Military Coup, Buhari Appoints New Chief Security Officer.

President Mohammadu Buhari’s draconian style of administration is impacting negatively on the nation, fuelling ill feelings, despondence and general discontent among the populace and spiking a gloomy future with an ever spiraling economic downturn. The effects of his harsh policies and perceived lopsided anti-graft war, reminiscent of his stint as military head of state between […]

Read More EXCLUSIVE: RUMBLE IN THE MILITARY.

On Monday afternoon, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ended the Nigerian naira’s sixteen-month peg to the U.S. dollar, sending the naira into a freefall. The currency had been pegged at 197 naira per dollar, but as the chart below shows, it had been trading at over 320 naira per dollar for months on the […]

Read More Nigerias floating naira.

According to sources close to Dr Bukola Saraki revealed that the Senate president has perfected contingency plans to defect to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) if the All Progressive Congress (APC) senators begin impeachment processes against him. Senator Saraki who is facing trial at the Code of Conduct tribunal for about eight months has now […]

Read More PDP to emerge majority in Senate as Saraki, 15 others plan to defect.

SENATORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, formally resolved to withhold their support for the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government. They cited the actions of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to- wards their party members since taking over the central government as reasons. The resolution was taken following the […]

Read More PDP senators withdraw support for Buhari’s government.

The British electorate does not need Americans to tell them how to vote in the June 23 referendum, and I wouldn’t dare try. I have always had great admiration for the British people — and great respect for the country’s democratic traditions. But from across the Atlantic, we Yanks are watching the campaign closely — […]

Read More Leaving Europe Is a Risk the U.K. Shouldn’t Take. By Mike Bloomberg.

… Says EFCC Has All It Needs The United States has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has all it needs to prosecute all those implicated in the Halliburton scandal including Mrs. Aisha M. Buhari who allegedly wired $170,000.00 in bribe to disgraced Congressman Williams J. Jefferson in 2002. A 16-count indictment, returned […]

Read More Halliburton: U.S. Wants Aisha Buhari, Atiku, Kachikwu Prosecuted!

A renowned and respected Northern Leader, and first civilian Governor of Kaduna State in the Second Republic, Alhaji Balarebe Musa, has blasted President Muhammadu Buhari, for his approach in addressing the ethnic agitations in the country. The former Governor, in an interview with PUNCH, on Thursday, blamed Buhari’s military background for the escalation of crisis […]

Read More Tension as Northern Leaders Release Statement

On Monday 20th 2016, the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose alerted the world that his personal bank account domicile at Zenith Bank Nigeria PLC has been frozen on the order of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The 55 years old politician accused President Muhamadu Buhari of using the instrumentalities of the […]

Read More Governor Fayose Versus EFCC/FG: A Citizen’s Perspectiveby Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye.

Retired justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi is dead. According to a family source, Justice Tobi died by 5.30 pm on Thursday, June 16, 2016 at the National Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. His corpse was later moved to the morgue of Garki General Hospital, according to Vanguard. It was also […]

Read More Retired justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi is dead at 75.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police, brahim Kpotum Idris tipped as the Acting Inspector General of Police. He replaces Solomon Arase who has proceeded on retirement. The President met with Idris in company of his predecessor at Aso Rock presidential villa on Tuesday. The Presidency is expected to issue a statement […]

Read More Buhari appoints Idris Ibrahim Acting IGP.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, is invoved in a scandal over the illegal employment exercise carried out by its executive chairman, Mr. Babatunde Fowler. Fowler has been found to have overseen a recruitment exercise that did not follow the rules of employment in the public service. The 349 roles at the Federal Inland Revenue […]

Read More Federal Inland Revenue Service secretly recruits 349 staff illegally.

AT least, 59 persons were late Saturday night and early hours of Sunday allegedly killed following the renewed hostilities between suspected Fulani herdsmen and farmers at Turan Council ward of Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. Our correspondent learnt that the attack also left so many members of the community with varying degrees of […]

Read More Death toll in Benue herdsmen attack hits 59.

The personal account of the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose and that of his associates have been frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). Fayose Speaking at the premises of Zenith Bank, Ado-Ekiti, where he had his personal account, the governor claimed that he had gotten winds of plans by the Presidency […]

Read More EFCC freezes Fayose’s account, Governor describes action as criminal, illegal.

FILE: Ex-Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode arriving the EFCC Abuja office on Monday, May 9, 2016.  Jude Ndukwe, the SA Media to detained Director of Media and Publicity of the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that the former minister of Aviation, has met his bail conditions as set by […]

Read More EFCC asked Fani-Kayode to deposit $1m, implicate Jonathan, others — Aide.

The leadership of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded plans to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising wave of militancy in the Niger Delta and the agitations by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB). The 28-member Union, with a population of […]

Read More BREAKING! Referendum Finally Coming For Biafra? EU to Meet Buhari Over IPOB, Avengers.

– Sirika is said to be showing insubordination to his direct boss, Amaechi – Sources say this may not be unconnected to his (Sirika’s) relationship with President Buhari – Amaechi is said not to be taking the acts with a pinch of salt – Aviation workers express disappointment over the public squabbles of the ministers. […]

Read More Trouble looms as Amaechi, Sirika engage in power tussle.

Where’s Your State on WAEC Performance Chart? The West African Certificate Examination (WAEC) has just released its performance chart for May/June 2015 exams.    Here is the list of the states according to their performance: Abia – 1st    Anambra – 2nd    Edo – 3rd    Rivers – 4th    Imo – 5th    […]

Read More WAEC Has Spoken.

Four of the major coastal tribes of Western Africa: the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan and the Gaa-Adangbe are dissimilar at a glance and evidently geographic neighbours, but very closely related, when examined at the genetic level. Several studies have been employed over the years, with findings showing genetic similarity between differing regional ethnic groups. One in […]

Read More STUDY FINDS THAT THE YORUBA ARE GENETICALLY 99.9 PERCENT IGBO – By Ovigwe Eguegu

The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has notified electricity consumers in Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States that the National Power Grid has collapsed. The Head of Corporate Communications of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, Jonah Iboma revealed that PHED is now receiving zero power from the national grid as a […]

Read More Four Nigerian states in total darkness as national grid collapses.

A power barge is a power plant installed on a deck barge. These are sometimes called “floating power plants” or “barge mounted power plants”. The type of power plants include single or multiple gas turbines, reciprocating diesel and gas engines, boilers or nuclear reactors. Ghana is expected to receive and install a consolidated 400 megawatts […]

Read More 400m/w of power barge ready by next two month

‘We may start to prosecute BDCs, banks for complicity’ Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said due to the current anti-corruption war, looters have stopped keeping money in banks and have resorted to storing cash in their abandoned property. Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu,‎ said this at a workshop titled, ‘The ‘Role […]

Read More Looters now warehouse money – EFCC.

Richard Condon’s novel, The Manchurian Candidate (1959), now a classic of the cold-war, is a political thriller about a young American soldier, from a very prominent political family, who is recruited, brainwashed, and unleashed unto the American political landscape by the Communists to effect subterranean changes that would have ground-shifting impact on American politics and […]

Read More The “Efulefu Igbo” and the Manchurian complex- By Obi Nwakanma

 My dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The indisputable truth is […]

Read More Open Letter To Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. – By Bayo Adeyinka. 

It’s hard to see how President Buhari’s policies are good for Nigeria’s future. Nigerian President Muhummadu Buhari writes of building an economic bridge to Nigeria’s future (“The Three Changes Nigeria Needs,” op-ed, June 14). It’s hard to see how his administration’s inflexibility, lack of vision and reactive approach will achieve this. Mr. Buhari notes that […]

Read More Buhari Is Nigeria’s Problem, Not Its Solution.

 This has been a very expensive one year specialist MBA education on the interplay of economic theory (read basic demand and supply principles), international trade, the global financial markets and appropriate interventionist and predictive monetary policies. It was an all-out battle between obstinacy, star-gazing and wishful thinking, ‘native intelligence’, dishonest intellectuals (una know una self), […]

Read More Nigeria’s New FX Policy, an Obstinate Pupil and the Cost of Adult Education. -by Jekwu Ozoemene.

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, has petitioned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, accusing some members of the lower chamber of improper conduct, attempted rape and soliciting for prostitutes while on official trip to the US. But, the affected lawmakers have denied all the allegations and threatened […]

Read More BREAKING NEWS! 3 NASS Members Caught Attempting to Rape US Hotel Attendant – US Ambassador.

The national caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who was appointed by the Port Harcourt convention, has reacted angrily to the invasion of the PDP National Secretariat by Ali Sheriff, saying Mr. Sheriff was being sponsored by the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, to scuttle PDP’s chance in the forthcoming governorship election in […]

Read More APC sponsoring Modu Sheriff to scuttle PDP — Makarfi group.

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has denied owning a £15m property in the United Kingdom and demanded a retraction from the UK SUN newspaper over an article by its former Editor, Kelvin Mackenzie, alleging in his Saturday column that the ex-Nigerian leader had bought the property in Surrey. He had written, “I hear the aptly named […]

Read More I have no property or accounts outside Nigeria – Jonathan debunks newspaper report.

Recently, there were renewed calls by eminent Nigerians, including a former vice-president, for the restructuring of the country, with more power and resource control devolving to the six regions to make them generate more revenue for development, while the centre remains constant albeit less powerful than before. To you, is this restructuring formula the panacea […]

Read More Is Restructuring the Solution to Nigeria’s Development Problems?

A former chairman of the National Population Commission, Festus Odimegwu, has lambasted the Nigerian political class, accusing government at all levels of corruption and ineptitude- failings he said are now enough for the Nigerian military to seize political power in the country. In an explosive interview published by ThisDay last weekend, Mr. Odimegwu said Nigeria […]

Read More Ex-Population Commission boss Festus Odimegwu explodes; calls for military takeover in Nigeria.

When a few months ago the northern governors threatened in an infantile stupor to “break up” Nigeria, many people called off their bluff even though it was the right thing to do! Right now breaking up Nigeria is on everyone’s mind! After that shameful threat lacking in adult decency and political decorum, Buhari took it […]

Read More As ACF amplify the war drums.

States government will now receive fresh monthly bailout from the federal government, following the adoption of the fiscal sustainability plan of the federal government. According to the ministry of finance, state governments have agreed to a common standard to which they must operate in terms of financial management. “We are determined to attain financial discipline […]

Read More Governors to publish financial statements as condition for bailout.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it paid N56.22 billion into the Federation Account in April, 2016. This is contained in the corporation’s Monthly Financial Report released in Abuja on Thursday 09/06/2016. “NNPC transferred N56.22 billion to the Federation Account for the month of April being proceeds from local sale of petroleum products. “Thus, […]

Read More NNPC Pays N56bn Into Federation Account.

Damola Awoyokun, an engineer and historian has perused hitherto hidden dispatches from British diplomats and intelligence officers on Nigeria’s first coup—a very bloody one—executed by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and other revolutionists on 15 January 1966. The coup in which political leaders and military officers of northern Nigeria extraction were majorly killed triggered a counter-coup and […]

Read More British secret files on Nigeria’s first bloody coup, path to Biafra: By Damola Awoyokun.

Constitutional lawyer and elder statesman, Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN) has de­clared that only the restructuring of the polity will save Nigeria from its recurring socio-economic and political challenges. As a first step towards realis­ing the goal, Nwabueze has called on President Muhammadu Buha­ri to immediately convene a fresh National Conference. He said that the 2014 […]

Read More Only restructuring will save Nigeria – Nwabueze.

Itam is a sleepy, nondescript town that ushers you into Uyo, the capital city of Akwa Ibom State. It holds a rather special place in my heart. Flashback 50 years ago, it was here at the peak of the Nigerian Civil War, after a dreadfully exhausting and hazardous trek from Ikot Ekpene, that my family […]

Read More How Godswill Akpabio ruined my lunch. By Emmanuel Ukpongo.

December 16th 2015 Royal Dutch Shell Group said on Tuesday that it plans to exit oil and gas operations in 10 countries as part of a strategy to raise its cost savings profile to $4.5 billion and narrow its focus to the most profitable businesses such as liquefied natural gas, deepwater oil production and chemicals. […]

Read More Shell plans to exit operations in 10 countries to cut cost.

Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, and former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana, were among eminent Nigerians who yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to embark on immediate restructuring of Nigeria in line with the principles of true federalism. They made the call at Nike Lake Resort Hotel Enugu during the 17th Annual Convention […]

Read More Ekwueme, Gana, others ‎call for immediate restructuring of the country.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, kicked up the dust on May 31, at a book launch in Abuja. The book has the rather cheeky title of We are all Biafrans. He has put our country in the agitation mode once again. You can feel it. Some important warriors of restructuring and true federalism have instantly oiled […]

Read More Our unworkable military federalism.

THE Arewa Consultative Forum, the mouthpiece of Northern Nigeria has warned the Niger Delta Avengers to stop their acts of economic sabotage by attacking oil facilities in the region. The former Inspector-General of police, Ibrahim Coomassie the ACF chairman warned that the north has tolerated them enough and adjure them to desist henceforth from carrying […]

Read More Stop Attack On Oil Facilities Or Else, ……. -Arewa Forum Warns Avengers.

How the hunger games are unfolding The news from military defense headquarters that out of the recently retired generals and senior military officers, about 75% were southerners are keeping tongues wagging. It’s really a surprise that most Nigerians, especially southerners are knowing for the first time that ethnic cleansing in the armed forces has been […]

Read More The agenda and ethnic cleansing in the army.

*Lagos as it is today, has everything to stand by its own. We run the police, we have the most viable infrastructure in the whole country, yet we are not given what we deserve- Ambode *What we owe Nigeria today is nothing but true federalism- Ambode Twenty-three years after the annulment of the June 12, […]

Read More Governor Ambode, Kanu, Opadokun Call For True Federalism.

A new report has disclosed that the 36 states and the 774 local government councils in Nigeria shared N2.8 trillion from the Federation Account in the one year of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. An exclusive report by the Economic Confidential, an intelligence economic magazine, disclosed that the total figure was payment made to the two […]

Read More Nigeria’s 36 states, local governments receive N2.8 trillion in Buhari’s first year.

More international airlines are expected to suspend their flights to Nigeria due to foreign currency restrictions that have locked up nearly $1 billion of revenue in the west African nation. Two international airlines, Iberia and United Airlines have so far suspended flights to Nigeria – Iberia suspended flights in May and United Airlines’ suspension is […]

Read More More International airlines expected to suspend flights to Nigeria as currency controls bite.

In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969 to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972). Kissinger’s description […]

Read More THE Igbo people of Nigeria: JEWS OF AFRICA 1

Yesterday it was confirmed that a number of high-ranking officers from the military were compulsorily retired from service over allegations of corruption and fraud. The army had released a statement announcing the retirement of the soldiers and explaining that there was a need for the military to be non-partisan and focussed on protecting the nation. […]

Read More Compulsorily Retired Military Officers Mostly From The South.

Media reports  reveal the real reasons why coach Sunday Oliseh may continue to tinker the Eagles from his base in Belgium. After contracting a virus in one of his official assignments, camp sources informed that the former Juventus player has alleged occultic manipulations by his enemies on his life and has vowed to flee far […]

Read More Oliseh flees Nigeria, accuses staff of witchcraft.

Fellow Nigerians, let me say categorically and emphatically that our dear beloved country is dangerously haemorrhaging again and this perfidious drift must be halted urgently before we all end up in perdition. Anyone telling President Muhammadu Buhari that all is well or that his government is moving in the right direction is either lying or […]

Read More Before They Mislead President Buhari:By Dele Momodu…

The opening take for this piece is that no matter how hard Buhari fights, no matter how passionate he desires, and no matter how much he injects his much touted political will into system, things can never change in Nigeria for the better unless Nigeria undergoes total restructuring. And no lie or attempt to hide […]

Read More The Expensive Gaffe: When President Muhammadu Buhari Hid The Truth And Asked The Wrong question.

Of all the people who filed suits to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s qualifications to stand for election to office of president regarding his West African School Certificate, WASC, in the run-up to the general election last year, it is only Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe who has refused to back down from pursuing the case in court. Others […]

Read More Buhari has no certificate, he never sat for WASC” – Barrister Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe

Cancer – known largely as a disease of our modern establishment – ravages our bodies, our minds, and our spirits indiscriminately. It could prey upon anyone. Why has this horror become a part of our everyday conversation? Why has it affected so many? What can we do about it? Within the confines of this article, […]

Read More Cancer – A Modern Day Scourge.

Cancer is the world’s number one killer disease. One third of the world’s 7.3 billion people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.  The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) predicts that the worldwide burden of cancer is set to double over the next five years, and that over the next 15 years, […]

Read More Cancer,the world’s number one killer disease.

President of the Nigeria Medical Association NMA, Mike Ogrima, has refuted claims that Nigerian doctors cannot treat President Buhari’s ears, forcing him to travel to the UK to see an ENT doctor. Speaking to journalists in Jos, Plateau state yesterday June 9th, Ogrima who is a professor of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery at the Ahmadu […]

Read More “We have doctors in Nigeria capable of handling President Buhari’s health challenge.”~NMA President Prof Mike Ogrima.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assigned ‎portfolios to the members of the 7-man national caretaker committee, led by a former governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi. The committee was constituted at the May 21 national convention of the party, held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, mandated to administer the affairs of the party […]

Read More PDP assigns portfolios to Makarfi-led caretaker c’ttee.

Before the independence of Nigeria, as at 1958, this was how crude oil taxes were shared… 1958: 1. Oil Producing States retained 67.4% of Mining Rents and Royalties. 2. Federal Government got 20% of Mining Rents and Royalties. 3. Non-oil states got 12.6% So the crude oil and gas was owned by the oil producing […]

Read More The crux of the matter! ….by Kevin Uzoka.

The Niger Delta Avengers, on Friday morning said a crude pipeline owned by Italian oil giant, Agip Eni, was destroyed in an overnight explosion.The group, which claimed responsibility for virtually all major attacks against oil installations across the restive oil-rich region this year, said the incident occurred at about 3:00 a.m. In a tweet posted […]

Read More Niger Delta Avengers blows up another AGIP facility.

Following threats of missile attacks on Abuja by Niger Delta militants, ailing President Buhari shelved the commencement of his treatment for a severe ear infection to attend a crucial meeting called by the government of United Kingdom to douse mounting tension in Nigeria and prevail on the Niger Delta militants to shelve their planned missile […]

Read More BUHARI, JONATHAN, OBASANJO, OIL COMPANIES MEET IN LONDON AS U.K BLAMES BUHARI OVER AVENGERS.

Propaganda has an expiration date, and it must now be abundantly clear that the expiration date for the hot air of Buhari’s government has long passed. George Santayana says: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If Nigerians were not so forgetful, we would not now be saddled with the burdensome […]

Read More THE WORST GOVERNMENT IN THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA (2) By Femi Aribisala.

  Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic nomination for president after winning four more states. In California, the biggest prize of all, she walloped Bernie Sanders, her rival, by 56% to 43%. Before the primaries the Associated Press estimated that she had secured enough support from superdelegates—party politicians and bigwigs—to push her over the finishing line.  […]

Read More International Politics this week.

As if weary of a primary tussle in which the outcome has long been obvious, Democratic voters knocked it on the head on June 7th. Bernie Sanders, whose refusal to admit defeat defies electoral mathematics, hoped to win at least four of the last six states up for grabs, including the biggest, California. But Hillary […]

Read More Hillary Clinton: Madam presumptive nominee.The former First Lady takes a big step towards getting her old house back.

Jeremy Corbyn, saboteur IN 1975 a Labour government, split on Britain’s membership of the European Economic Community (as it then was), put the matter to a referendum. Most of its supporters wanted to leave, so it fell to the pro-European Conservatives to trumpet the case for staying. Margaret Thatcher, their leader, campaigned in a hideous […]

Read More Lacklustre and poorly led, the British Labour Party is letting down the Remain campaign.

Operatives of the Department of State Security have arrested and detained the owner of Public Alerts Security Systems, George Uboh, who reportedly attempted to blackmail the Federal Government into awarding him a multi-billion job to recover over N1.9 trillion hidden away in some banks in the country. Uboh, according to findings was arrested on Tuesday […]

Read More BREAKING NEWS!!! 1.9 Trillion Recovery: George Uboh Arrested By DSS.

A new militant group, the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta have surfaced, with a demand that the Federal government allocate 60% of the nation’s oil blocs to indigenes of the Niger Delta region. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Brig. Sibiri Taiowoh and made available to newsmen yesterday June 8th, the group said failure […]

Read More New militant group, Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta surfaces, demands allocation of 60% oil blocs to Niger Deltans.

Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, yesterday, scuttled the hope of early resolution of the current spate of bombings in the Niger Delta, as it did not only reject the window created for dialogue by the Federal Government, but also blew up another Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, crude oil pipeline in Delta State.  This came on a […]

Read More Foreign refineries to stop buying Nigeria’s crude oil as militants rebuff dialogue.

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has pulled out of the much publicized clean up of Ogoni Land, citing insincerity and lack of commitment on the side of the federal government. In a statement by its spokesman, Bamidele Odugbesan in Lagos on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. The oil giant stated that they noticed […]

Read More Shell Pulls Out Of Ogoni Clean-Up, Accuses FG Of Insincerity And Lack Of Commitment.

Bilderberg Chairman Castries, Henri de  Here you have it. We now know who has been confirmed to attend this years Bilderberg conference and we also know what the 130 participants from 20 countries will talk about behind closed doors at the posh 5-star Hotel Taschenbergpalais. The 64th annual Bilderberg conference will take place June 9th […]

Read More GLOBALISM: The 2016 Bilderberg attendee list is out; we know who’s attending and key topics of discussion. Will the ultra-powerful group decide to allow Donald Trump to take the Presidency of the United States?

Royal Dutch Shell, the largest oil producing company in Nigeria, which has suffered series of attacks on its 48-inch Forcados export pipeline that links onshore storage tanks with an offshore port, has ruled out the repair of the pipeline for now. The Chief Financial Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Mr. Simon Henry, while noting […]

Read More Shell rules out repair of damaged oil facility.

Fewer young men in the US want to get married than ever, while the desire for marriage is rising among young women, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew recently found that the number of women 18-34 saying that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things rose from 28 percent to […]

Read More Young men giving up on marriage: ‘Women aren’t women anymore’

President Muhammadu Buhari has pointedly told a former Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that he is not the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the latter is widely upheld. The President made this clarification last Monday while hosting APC chieftains and members of the National Assembly to a dinner where […]

Read More You’re Not The National Leader of APC – Buhari Bluntly Tells Tinubu.

The Emir of Birnin Gwari has challenged former self-styled military president, Ibrahim Babangida, to publish an autobiography that would correct the wrong impressions about him. Zubairu Jibril Mai Gwari II spoke in Kaduna, Saturday, at the launch of a book “Ancestral Farewell” written by Dickson Adama, a Kaduna-based journalist and reporter of the Daily Trust […]

Read More Emir asks IBB to write autobiography.

When George Orwell wrote his classic novel 1984 it is doubtful if he had Nigeria in mind. However, 1984 is fast becoming a reference point in the historical dissection of the current political dispensation. As Buhari wields an iron fist in a democratic government, many are forced to take a good look at 1984 to […]

Read More Nigeria in the dangerous year of 2019.

A Speech by H.E. Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.  Delivered at Bloomberg Studios, London, United Kingdom. Monday, 6 June 2016 Since leaving office one year and one week ago, I have had the luxury of time to be able to reflect on the future of my great country, […]

Read More “Civis Nigerianus Sum” – I am a citizen of Nigeria.

Until President Olusegun Obasanjo began his crusade against corruption via the Anti-Corruption law, “Welcome to the country of corruption” would have been an appropriate inscription at Nigeria’s international airports! The anxiety of airport officials to extort money from those travelling into and out of the country, be they Nigerians or foreigners, was there for all […]

Read More Nigeria’s history of corruption.