A gathering of pro-democracy and civil rights groups in the five states of the South-East geopolitical zone under the auspices of Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Good Governance Organizations, SBCHROs, has published the result of its fieldwork which returned Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state as the Worst Serving Governor in the South-East. […]

Read More Okorocha Emerges Worst Governor In South-East.

The peace moves in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have run into a hitch, with the chief peace maker, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, accusing the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, of frustrating the reconciliation efforts. He said the chairman had compounded the challenge of reconciliation by taking “improper unilateral decisions” on issues affecting national […]

Read More APC peace moves run into hitch as Tinubu battles Oyegun.

Geneticists claim rising cases of deceptions, infidelity and adultery among couples have made the need to popularize Deoxyribonucleic Acid testing otherwise known as DNA test inevitable, BUKOLA ADEBAYO writes Deoxyribonucleic Acid, also known as DNA testing is still not a very popular procedure in Nigeria. However, experts say there is a need to increase awareness […]

Read More Paternity Testing: 50% Nigerian first born children belong to other men.

A comprehensive expose on how elections are rigged in the country has been unveiled by one of the insiders in the political process and former Cross River State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke. Last Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Duke gave a blow by blow account to a gathering of pro-democracy advocates, including the Save […]

Read More How Governors Rig Elections, By Donald Duke

Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says he should be examined by a psychiatrist if he joins the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) masterminded by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo recommended the coalition in a letter he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari in January. The elder statesman had asked Nigerians to rally round the movement, saying neither the […]

Read More Soyinka: A psychiatrist should examine me if i join Obasanjo’s coalition.

Nigeria’s leading carrier, Air Peace on Friday set a new record with the arrival of its newly acquired Boeing B777-200 aircraft, becoming the first and only Nigerian airline to procure and register the brand of airliner in the country. The development is coming weeks after the airline took delivery of two Embraer 145 aircraft on […]

Read More Air Peace sets new record as B777 aircraft arrives.

The clash between the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and Kaduna State Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i over 2019 was the reason behind the boycott of the Kaduna Centenary celebration by northern governors and some prominent traditional rulers, this newspaper reliably gathered. Multiple sources at the Kaduna Centenary secretariat told our correspondents that the anniversary […]

Read More 2019: How Sultan Of Sokoto Clashed With Gov El-Rufa’i, Mobilized Monarchs To Boycott Kaduna Centenary

This is a most Logical Summation of facts and and a most brilliant deployment of Logic on the subject of Fulani guile, and what the rest us, particularly in the South and Middle Belt should do, in *Self-Redemption*. First is to reckon that the Caliphate-Imposed *”1999 Constitution”* to which the winner of any Election in […]

Read More “ELECTORAL SHUTDOWN IS INEVITABLE. ABORT THE 2019 ELECTION FOR YOUR OWN GOOD”

Without the North, Nigeria and Nigerians would be reduced to nonentities. In 2005, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank forecast that Nigeria will be the 20th largest economy in the world by 2025 and the 12th largest by 2050; ahead of Italy, Canada and South Korea. Having identified Brazil, Russia, India and China as four emergent powerhouses […]

Read More OPINION: NIGERIA CANNOT DO WITHOUT THE NORTH. By Femi Aribisala

Tinubu made the allegation in a letter written to the president, vice-president, senate president and speaker of the house of representatives and dated February 21, 2018, reports online news platform, TheCable. President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved members of the APC, but the former governor accused Odigie-Oyegun of contravening the spirit of […]

Read More Crises in APC: Tinubu writes Buhari, accuses Odigie-Oyegun of sabotage.

Northern Elders Forum appoints new leaders, condemns insecurity in the country – A meeting was held by the Northern Elders Forum to discuss some critical issues. – Lamenting the state of insecurity in the country, the Forum condemned kilings going on in the north and other parts of Nigeria – It promised to work to […]

Read More Prof. Ango Abdullahi is the new leader of NEF

In the run up to the 2015 General Elections, the All Progressive Congress (APC) hired a vicious media propaganda team with the objective of misleading Nigerians, planting concocted stories about opponents and destroying the foundations of the growth of Nigeria. They achieved this ugly goal. Through high level political blackmail and propaganda, the APC was […]

Read More Rehashing the Failed APC Propaganda Machine: The Daily Trust Misadventure. By Simeon Nwakaudu

The Devil is most successful amongst people who believe he does not exist. That is the situation around this debate of whether or not there are Masters and Slaves in the Nigeria of now. Those who reduce everything to spurious academic arguments and vacuous postulations are at liberty to amuse themselves but there are some […]

Read More THE STRATIFICATION OF ONE-NIGERIA, ACCORDING TO THE 1960 MISSION STATEMENT AND BATTLE SCRIPT OF AHMADU BELLO

The Archbishop AJV Obinna of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri on Sunday, February 18, 2018, took a swipe at Governor Rochas Okorocha in his 2018 Lenten message to the Catholic faithful, lamenting the incessant demolition of markets and people’s properties by the Okorocha government, even as he said that Governor Okorocha is inflicting pain and […]

Read More Okorocha Is Inflicting Pains And Suffering On Imo People – Archbishop Obinna.

Buhari has found himself in exactly the same position he was in 1983 before he was overthrown by Babangida. His sectarian agenda has stalled as marginalised and terrorised communities brace to defend themselves in the face of failure of the police to safeguard them. Buhari is not criticised because he is Fulani. Those who are […]

Read More Buhari’s sectarian agenda unravels. By Eke O Eke

Gentlemen of the press, We have invited you today to address very critical issues of urgent national importance and to once again alert Nigerians of the heinous plot being hatched by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled Federal Government to further beguile the people and perpetrate more harm on our dear nation. 1. INEC As you […]

Read More Text of Press Conference by PDP National Publicity Secretary on Issues of Urgent National Importance. Tuesday, February 20, 2019 at the PDP National Secretariat, Abuja.

Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced its results for the 2017 operating year with a dividend recommendation of N33 billion to its shareholders. The recommendation, which amounts to a total dividend of N4.13 (four Naira thirteen kobo) per share for the 2017 operating year was part of the company’s filing to The Nigerian Stock Exchange on […]

Read More NIGERIAN BREWERIES DECLARES N33billion DIVIDEND FOR 2017

Former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has flayed members of the Imo state House of Assembly over their reported rejection of the proposed amendment Bill seeking financial autonomy for the Local Governments. The Bill was forwarded to all the 36 State Assemblies by the National Assembly for their concurrence as part […]

Read More IHEDIOHA FLAYS IMO LAWMAKERS OVER REJECTION OF LOCAL COUNCIL AUTONOMY BILL…INSISTS LG AUTONOMY IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD.

NATURE OF HATE SPEECHES In the aftermath of the divisions in the country caused by President Buhari’s Northernisation/ Islamisation Agenda, as manifested in his lopsided strategic appointments that unfairly favour the North as against the South, and the complete exclusion of the South-East from them, which gave rise to agitations for independent Republic of Biafra, […]

Read More The quit notice, hate speeches and Buhari’s Northernisation/Islamisation agenda. By Professor Ben Nwabueze

Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or […]

Read More THIS PRESENT DARKNESS.

Today, I consider it a great privilege as I join other patriots and crusaders of good governance, who have utilized this platform of ING lecture Series to lend their thoughts to the continuous discourse and contributions towards the advancement of our state. Its very remarkable to me, noting the fact that am the least among […]

Read More USE AND DUMP, A POLITICAL DECAPITATION OF IMO YOUTHS, WHAT CAN BE DONE?

Here it is fellas, the news you’ve all been waiting for but secretly known in your heart all along: tall blokes and short women make the best partners – and this is coming from science! Move over Danny DeVito. Step aside Sir Mick and come on down Shaq, women just aren’t attracted to the smaller […]

Read More Tall Men And Short Women Make The Best Partners, According To Science.

In reaction to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s promise to treat what he described as “hate speech” as terrorism Mr. Jackson Ude the publisher of Pointblank News said the following. “APC thrived on hate speech between 2014-2015. Today that seed they sowed is haunting them. They now say it’s terrorism! Don’t be deceived. APC came to […]

Read More THE ARCHITECTS OF TERROR AND THE FATHERS OF HATE. – BY FEMI FANI KAYODE

Truth is: Unless Nigeria is redefined to become “Our Project” instead of the Criminal Enterprise it had been from 1914 when the British cobbled it together for their own Commercial Interests, to when in 1960, their Local Agents, the Fulani were coronated to run it as a British/Caliphate Joint Venture, to now, when subsidiaries have […]

Read More NIGERIA: TO BEND OR TO BREAK.

“Before pointing accusing fingers to the Igbos who didn’t declare war on Ikwerre land, i want you to tell me how come the Ijaws became land owners in P.H when the rivers were our boundaries prior to the civil war? How come the Northerner who claimed to be fighting for you ended up hijacking the […]

Read More THE IKWERRE POLITICAL REALITY

The Fulani in Nigeria have said they will not accept cattle ranching because the country’s geographical location was not suitable for it. * It’s caused by strangers fuelled by politicians, religious leaders – Miyetti Allah Besides, the Fulani said the species of cows they had, as subsistence livestock farmers, were not good for ranching in […]

Read More Why Nigerian Fulani won’t accept ranching — Miyetti-Allah.

“Nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019. All Fulanis in Nigeria today our eyes are open. All of us are behind Buhari.We have seen that they want to destroy the Fulani because of Buhari. We would be ready to follow him and fight it”- Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodeji, President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders […]

Read More The dangerous delusions of Umar Muhammed Ladbo. By Femi Fani-Kayode

Owerri was founded about the 14th century by Ekwem Oha. His mother’s name was Arugo. He fled from Umuori Village, Uratta in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State when his life was threatened by his younger brother Ndum. The threat to his life arose from the dispute over the sharing of the Funeral […]

Read More HISTORY OF OWERRI AND ITS ORIGIN

” The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself “. – Lord Lugard in a Letter to his colleague, […]

Read More UTHMAN DAN FODIO’S DREAM: FULANI WILL COLLAPSE IN 200 YEARS Written By John Coker.

Few days ago Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the following. “100 billion naira and $289 USD million was withdrawn in cash by President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks before the presidential election ostensibly for security. This was unprecedented stealing and it led to the economic recession that we are suffering today”. Sadly the wild, baseless and […]

Read More THE LAMENTATIONS OF A POISONOUS DWARF AND THE LYING WORDS OF AN UNREPENTANT SON OF PERDITION

Scores of indigenes of Umuchima – Ihiagwa community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State on Friday barricaded the entrance gate of Federal University of Technology , Owerri , in protest. Umuchima -Ihiagwa is one of the host communities of FUTO. The indigenes, who bore placards , alleged that the university management […]

Read More Ihiagwa communities protest, allege grave injustices and land grabbing by FUTO authorities.

“I feel let down facing the people of this state whenever I remember the promise I made to them that when they elect President Buhari into power, these killings will end. But unfortunately things are now getting worse” Governor Abdul Azeez Yari of Zamfara state. February 17, 2018 Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has […]

Read More Zamfara killings: Security agencies failed us – Governor Abdulaziz Yari.

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has formally reacted to the controversy over the alleged plot to impeach his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, saying such an impeachment would be of no political benefit to him or anybody else. Okorocha, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, described the report of the purported […]

Read More Okorocha: Impeachment of Imo deputy gov has no political value.

Disturbingly interesting! It goes to reinforce my decision not to break my head or heart over Nigerian problem. My own is to do my own good bit and leave the rest! THIS PRESENT DARKNESS. Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of […]

Read More NA TODAY NIGERIA DON SPOIL?

Jacob Zuma, the embattled President of South Africa, has resigned. But that is not the news. I carefully followed the events that led to Jacob Zuma’s exit and the whole thing lasted less than FIVE days. Again, that is not news. But note these: * In the build-up to Zuma’s exit, no one played the […]

Read More ZUMA: AS SOUTH AFRICA SHAMES NIGERIA YET AGAIN…

A group, Imo Equity, said it has uncovered a grand plot allegedly being hatched by members of the first family in the state, to impeach Governor Rochas Okorocha’s deputy, Prince Eze Madumere. Madumere is perceived as a stumbling block to Okorocha’s succession plan in 2019. Coordinator of the group, Pascal Udochi alleged that a serving […]

Read More 2019 guber: Plot to impeach Imo deputy gov thickens.

President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to meet Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress at his country home in Daura, Katsina state today, a day after he received the party’s governors. President Buhari meets with APC Leaders Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande in State House NAN reliably […]

Read More As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns the gruesome murder of 41 Nigerians by marauders in Zamfara, APC leaders, Tinubu to meet Buhari in Daura to discuss politics instead of confronting the issues.

The Independent National Electoral Commission says some underage voters are being registered in some parts of the country because the lives of registration officers are being threatened by some members of the community. The Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said this on Wednesday during a programme on the African Independent Television […]

Read More Why We are Registering Underage Persons,’ by INEC

The Imo state Commissioner for Happiness and younger sister of Governor Rochas Okorocha has appealed to men in her State to try to marry two or more women as a way of reducing prostitution and redundancy among Imo state Women. Speaking in Owerri state capital this morning, Commissioner Ogechi said Imo state has more women […]

Read More MARRY TWO OR MORE WOMEN TO REDUCE PROSTITUTION AMONG LADIES – MRS OGECHI OKOROCHA OLOLO, IMO STATE COMMISIONER FOR HAPPINESS APPEALS TO IMO STATE MEN.

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday revealed the identity of the person that would succeed him in 2019. The governor said at a meeting with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Owerri Municipal Council Area, who visited him in the Government House in Owerri that he would support the governorship ambition of […]

Read More Okorocha picks chief of staff as likely successor.

In what appears to be getting more interesting by the day, the new sequence introduced by members of the National Assembly, for the 2019 general elections, is set to pitch Aso Rock Presidential Villa, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on the one hand, against members of the National Assembly who insist that it […]

Read More Buhari, INEC, NASS in three-way face-off

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Imo State Branch has described the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, as a threat to democracy. The NBA made the claim in a press statement signed by its Branch Chairman in Owerri, L.U.N. Nwakaeti Esq, saying that Governor Okorocha lied when he denied that he was owing the judges in […]

Read More Okorocha a threat to democracy — Imo lawyers.

Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Bishop Mathew Kukah, has said the ‘Third Force’ coalition, being promoted by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, will not help the development of Nigerian politics and democracy. According to him, the problems plaguing Nigeria would not be fixed merely by removing President Muhammadu Buhari and bringing another leader to replace him. […]

Read More 2019: Removing Buhari Will Not Solve Nigeria’s Problems – Kukah

Since mid-January, there has been a concatenation of events whose denouement would decide, one way or another, the fate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election. In no particular order, the events include herdsmen incessant attacks on farmers and destruction of farmlands and the federal government’s inability, if not refusal, to stop it, culminating […]

Read More 2019 and Buhari’s Freudian Slip.

Bullying is the act of using one’s advantage of strength, real or perceived, to force or coerce a real or perceived weaker person(s) to behave or react in a particular way; to forego some rights. I have introduced perception into it as against the presentation in the dictionary of real strength against real weakness because […]

Read More THE MENACE OF THE NATIONAL NEIGHBOURHOOD BULLY – THE FULANI HERDSMAN – By Barrister Mike Ahamba – SAN

Ndi Igbo, Ndigbo means (The Ancient People) The British called us IBO or (Heebos) I.B.O. means I Before Others (I Came Before Others). Aha, an Igbo man, established ancient Egypt. To provide evidence in support of my claim here, I will cite Dr. Ben Jochannan, a world renowned Egyptologist, he stated that ALKEBULAN and not […]

Read More THE IGBO AND ANCIENT EGYPT.

The crisis-free convention by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, aside from raising hope of stronger opposition party, appears to have been a reason for panic in the camp of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC The atmosphere was electric. The swagger was familiar. Eagle Square reverberated with nostalgia for the umbrella of green, red and […]

Read More PDP SNEEZES…Who is Catching Cold?

“You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because you killed their fathers and mothers during the war and shattered their dreams. Shame on you. If Nigeria […]

Read More Femi Fani-Kayode: Biafra – The homicidal rhythm of Nigerian Army’s python dance.

CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS have asked President Mohammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Director General, Nigerian Intelligence Agency, (NIA), Mr Ahmed Abubakar. The groups said his case presents the worse narrative of having an incompetent, corrupt and disloyal Nigerian occupying one of the country’s most strategic positions. The coalition said with Mr Abubakar occupying the post […]

Read More CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS ASK BUHARI TO SACK DG, NIA, REORGANIZE TOP SECURITY POSTS.

This memo by EGBE OMO ODUDUWA to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and APC key figures, was made available to OBLONG MEDIA and it’s hereby published undiluted: To everything there is a season, a Time for every purpose under heaven—Ecclesiastes 3:1 While noting the substantive leader of the APC, President Buhari’s […]

Read More YORUBA CAUTIONS TINUBU AGAINST BUHARI’S USE AND DUMP TACTICS.

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has hit at the Southern and the Middle Belt leaders, for always looking up to the North for leadership. In a series of tweets on Friday morning, Fani-Kayode suggested that this is the “source and foundation of our national malaise”. He tweeted: “At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were […]

Read More Fani-Kayode blasts Southern, Middle Belt leaders for making Fulani rule Nigeria.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it was possible that South East leaders like Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the governors, may learn their lessons from alleged silence of the Hausa\Fulani governors and Arewa Consultative Forum over the wanton killings of innocent Nigerians by herdsmen. According to IPOB, it was saddening that Ohanaeze Ndigbo […]

Read More KILLER HERDSMEN: ACF, northern leaders’ silence a lesson for Ohanaeze, Igbo govs —IPOB

February 8, 2018 Press Statement The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lampooned the Presidency for abandoning its responsibility of governance and now deploying resources meant for the good of the people to push a desperate but ill-fated mission to perpetuate on Nigerians, an obviously unpopular Presidential candidate in 2019. The party said the Presidency has […]

Read More PDP To Presidency: Tinubu Cannot Deliver A Bad Product.

MTN Nigeria to go public in 2018, raises $500 Million through IPO sales *This deal will give 30 percent of MTN Nigeria to the public. MTN Group Ltd is finalising plans to list its Nigerian subsidiaries on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) this year. The deal is also expected to raise about $500 million for […]

Read More MTN NIGERIA PLANS TO BECOME A PUBLICLY-OWNED COMPANY IN 2018

Gani Adams, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, has boasted that the people of the South West would resist any attempt by herdsmen to turn the region into a killing field. He spoke while lamenting the number of lives lost to the activities of herdsmen across the country. Adams also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to […]

Read More Herdsmen Killings: What Yorubas will do to Fulanis – Gani Adams.

Almost everyone I know wonders aloud— and in silence— why people in power change radically; why they become so utterly disconnected from reality that they suddenly become completely unrecognizable to people who knew them before they got to power; why they get puffed-up, susceptible to flattery, and intolerant of even the mildest, best-intentioned censure; why […]

Read More Why Power Makes Otherwise Sane People Brain-Damaged By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

Nigeria is currently in the midst of deceit. She is currently in the hands of one who is limited but that has chosen to deploy doctrinal “Taqiyya” ahead of the 2019 elections. Now he pretends to agree to restructure, to have state police, even agrees to employing lopsided appointments and promising to address such pressinh […]

Read More TAQIYYA IS HIS TRADE, EVIL IS HIS WAY by Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo.

As 2019 approaches, there is expected to be high profile alignments and realignments in the political space of Nigeria. These alignments are usually done with the sole interests of political gladiators in mind who pretend that their political crisscrossing is for the common good of Nigeria and Nigerians. Experience has however shown that such crisscrossing, […]

Read More Obasanjo’s letter, “Third Force” and the Conspiracy against Nigerians.

The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew around a statement, perhaps the statements, purportedly issued by former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday, February 4, is absolutely unnecessary, unfortunate and utterly avoidable. The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew […]

Read More What Exactly Is Babangida Saying? By Reuben Abati.

My attention has been drawn to a report making rounds especially online in which I was quoted as advising Nigerians not to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming 2019 election. Not only is the said statement untrue, it is in its entirety, an inaccurate representation of my view of the state of our […]

Read More IBB DEBUNKS STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT BUHARI.

Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has asked Nigerians to co-operate with President Muhammadu Buhari until his tenure ends — but vote for a new generation of leaders in 2019. In a press statement released on Sunday by Kassim Afegbua, his spokesman, Babangida said it was time to sacrifice “personal ambition” for the “national interest”. THE […]

Read More IBB TO PMB, DROP YOUR PERSONAL AMBITION IN 2019 IN THE OVERALL NATIONAL INTEREST OF NIGERIA

The Secretary-General January 15, 2018 United Nations New York Sir, APPLICATION FOR UN DECLARATION OF MIDDLE-BELT AS REPUBLIC Of TAKURUKU On behalf of the leadership of Sovereign Republic of Takuruku Movement and good citizens, we hereby solicit for United Nations’ (UN) declaration and support of the international community to the Middle-Belt region as an independent […]

Read More BREAKING NEWS! TIV SEEKS INDEPENDENCE FROM NIGERIA, WRITES UNITED NATIONS

The Commissioner for Information, Imo State, Prof. Nnamdi Obiaraeri, in this interview with CHIDIEBUBE OKEOMA, talks about the establishment of the Ministry of Happiness and Purpose Fulfilment, the erection of statues of some African presidents by Governor Rochas Okorocha and some other controversies in the state Recently, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, appointed his […]

Read More Erection of statues has elevated Okorocha to position of global icon –Prof. Obiaraeri, Imo State Information Commissioner

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo seems to have carried the anti-Buhari campaign to the international community, Per Second News gathered Thursday in Washington. Obasanjo in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari recently asked him not to seek for a second term in office, saying each day President Buhari offers fresh proof that he is […]

Read More Exclusive: Obasanjo takes anti-Buhari campaign to international community.

Elder statesman and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has declared that Nigeria is a failed state under President Muhammadu Buhari. Prof. Nwabueze also said Nigeria may become extinct if he is re-elected in 2019. The erudite scholar noted that Nigeria, under the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC), government had failed to perform the […]

Read More Nigeria will cease to exist if Buhari wins second term – Nwabueze.

If open hatred would lead to needed self realization, let it be and possibly in legions. If it would take the attack of an enemy to make me wiser, stronger, bigger and better, I need more of such attacks and may even beautify the scares years after the healing process, may be for a memorial. […]

Read More Python Dance 2 and Matters Arising by Livy-Elcon Emereonye

Like him or hate him, Olusegun Obasanjo is an enigma. I am convinced that God has granted him a special grace to influence the course of events in this Nation for good or for bad, sometimes for a mixture of both. There is no living Nigerian Leader who is like him and I can not […]

Read More OBASANJO – The Man that troubleth Nigeria.

In October 2012, I chaired the Committee that organized Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s 80th birthday ceremonies. On the 16th of October, we organized an international colloquium on “Nigerian Federalism: Building on the Ekwueme Legacy” at the ThisDay Dome Abuja—and this was the highpoint of the 80th birthday anniversary. After some five years and three months, I […]

Read More Alex Ekwueme: The Man In The Arena With A Purpose – By Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that the Senate is conferred with the authority to ensure the choice of “only suitable and credible persons for appointment to the office”. The court gave the ruling in determining the suit challenging the Senate’s authority to deny an appointee to the office of Chairman of the […]

Read More Magu’s Confirmation: Court Rules In Favour Of Senate Channels Television.

The problem with those of us mostly from the Southern part of the country is the tendency to show off. Having attained some measure of the Western education, we tend to assume to know all and must have our say whether it makes sense or not. It did not start today. Long before the attainment […]

Read More Our know-it-all Southern elite. By Sunny Ikhioya.

At least 10 governors and some senators are all seem set for the unveiling today of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CN). Obasanjo broke the news of the coalition in a long “special statement” in which he lashed the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. A source learned that 10 governors and some senators […]

Read More 7 APC Governors, 3 of PDP’s Storm Abuja For Launching Of Obasanjo Coalition For Nigeria.

Published on November 25, 2016 By Seun Opejobi A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asserted that Nigeria needs people like former vice president, Atiku Abubakar to make life more meaningful for Nigerians. In a letter to felicitate with the former vice president on his 70th birthday, Tinubu described […]

Read More FLASHBACK: Nigeria needs Atiku to make life more meaningful – Tinubu.

At the risk of being branded an APC Apologist, without conceding, the recommendation of removing LGAs from the constitution and empowering states to provide for their existence, structure and number, is in tandem with age old principles of federalism . It is trite law that LGAs are not federating units in a federal system! In […]

Read More RE: APC REPORT ON LOCAL GOVT AUTONOMY:

The clouds of war are gathering with blood sucking gods that follow the perching of vultures. Vultures from Eastern Europe, vultures from Europe, vultures from Asia, yes, vultures from America that deal on arms. With eyes constantly fixed on any trouble spot in the world. They’re are hopefully praying to extend their business from Tripoli […]

Read More NIGERIA: ON THE HIGHWAY TO RWANDA

A member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and long time associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, Engineer Buba Galadima, said on Tuesday that the Buhari administration has finished its course. He said that the administration has written its obituary ahead of the 2019 election but just waiting to publish […]

Read More APC Is Finished, I Dare Them To Expel Me – Engineer Buba Galadima.

If the APC fails to address the internal wrangling within its fold, the Third Force is the next political ship, chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) has said. Responding to questions from our correspondent on the new alliance that is said to be in the works, […]

Read More Third Force is next political ship – Sen Shehu Sani.