Gentlemen of the press, Nigeria is on the Brink As you are aware, President Muhammadu Buhari is on his way to the United States, the home of democracy, whereas back home in Nigeria his administration has completely wrecked our democratic order, eroded constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens while foisting a siege mentality on our people. […]

Read More Text of State of the Nation Press Conference By Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presented on Saturday, April 28, 2018.

24th April, 2018 The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State, has again been drawn to a subterranean plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of Governor Rochas Okorocha to disobey the nation’s Apex Court directive that the Kangaroo Local Government elections being packaged to defraud unsuspecting political parties and their candidates, in […]

Read More PRESS RELEASE: We will abide by Supreme Court Advice on Imo LG Election

25th April, 2018 The peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State has observed with utter dismay, the continued onslaught against the people of Imo State and their means of livelihood by Governor Rochas Okorocha. This reprehensible, inhuman and repulsive aggression against the same people whom the governor ate their akara (bean cake), drank their sachets of […]

Read More PRESS RELEASE: Governor Rochas Okorocha’s Dictatorial Democracy and Onslaught against Imo People.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Sunday that he had already formed his opinion about the government of the ruling All Progressives Congress and knew exactly “where I’m going to cast my vote” when voting time comes. But Soyinka warned Nigerians not to allow themselves to be hoodwinked by those he said took part […]

Read More Reject recycled, jaded politicians in 2019, Soyinka tells Nigerians.

In the last couple of weeks, particularly in the last couple of days, I found myself asking the question: What is the value of human life in our dear country Nigeria? Anytime this question popped up in my mind, a part of me yelled out “nothing!” in righteous anger and frustration. But not surprisingly, this […]

Read More When Cattle Colony is not Enough… By Shaka Momodu

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I hope this meets you well. I don’t know if you remember me. My name is Simon. Simon Kolawole. Never mind. We will come to that later. Let us briefly journey into history for proper context into why I have chosen to openly write you this morning. I first heard of […]

Read More Shall We Tell the President? By Simon Kolawole.

On account of dejavu alone President Mohammadu Buhari chose the wrong moment to lay bare the open secret of his ambition for a second term in office. In terms of symbolic association, departing Abuja for London in the past one and half years evokes all the wrong memories. Predictably, even before he landed in London, […]

Read More Beyond The Buhari Declaration. By Akin Osuntokun.

Sometimes, I want to laugh at our people and say, it serves you right. Some other times, I just want to “siddon look”, apologies to our Cicero, the late Chief Bola Ige. And yet more often than not, my first instinct when they are complaining about the “strange” goings-on in government is to say, some […]

Read More Nigeria will need healing from the damage Buhari has done. By Shaka Momodu

The United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House […]

Read More U.S. releases damning human rights report on Nigeria under Buhari 10 days before talks with Trump.

Fellow Nigerians, these are not the best of times for our dear President, Muhammadu Buhari. And it must be much worse for his media handlers. Let me state matter-of-factly, from the onset, that President Buhari gets into regular trouble, indeed, too frequently, because he has invested heavily in a media team but lacks a public […]

Read More PRESIDENT BUHARI AS A PUBLIC RELATIONS NIGHTMARE.

The National president of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), Yerima Shettima has condemned President Buhari’s lazy Nigerian youths comment. Buhari, while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, said the country’s youthful population is reliant on the notion that Nigeria is an oil-rich nation, which leads to the […]

Read More “Lazy Nigerian Youths” Arewa Consultative Forum condemns Buhari’s comments, says 2019 will tell.

1. Firstly, it is acknowledged that this is a decision of Imo State Government backed by relevant and extant CGC and Autonomous Communities Laws in Imo State. 2. Out of abundant caution, it must be accentuated and underscored that creation and recognition of Autonomous Communities in Imo State beginning from the 1978 Imo State Traditional […]

Read More RE: AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY ADULT DEVELOPMENT LEVY OF SIX MILLION NAIRA.

Sincerely, no country or her leadership can truly lay claim to any honest fight against systemic corruption without sustainably instituting an enduring culture of openness, accountability, transparency and probity in the way and manner the nation’s resources are generated and dispensed . For weeks now, I have expected the National Assembly to institute a high […]

Read More EMPIRICAL INTERROGATION OF THE NNPC N1.4 TRILLION SUBSIDIES PAYMENT CLAIMS.

REPORTS ON RE-INTRODUCTION OF NEW POLLING UNITS. The attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been drawn to some newspaper reports alleging that the Commission had perfected plans to re-introduce 30,000 new polling units in order to compromise the 2019 General Elections. The fact of the matter is that in response to 3,789 […]

Read More INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION. PRESS RELEASE: REPORTS ON RE-INTRODUCTION OF NEW POLLING UNITS.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant to the Owerri federal Constituency seat at the House of Representatives Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi-Oforgu, has unveiled his political manifesto to his election sponsors in Lagos and Abuja with a promise to bring social-economic development to his constituency through a participatory approach. The PDP aspirant, who reeled out his […]

Read More 2019: Oblong Unveils Manifesto, Promises to Bring Social-Economic Development to His Constituency.

Royal Dutch Shell paid a total of $4,322,742,582 (about N1.5 trillion) to the Nigerian government in 2017, according to its annual payments report seen by TheCable Petrobarometer. The amount is broken down as $3,197,530,557 for production entitlement, $765,526,389 in taxes, $245,769,306 in royalties and $113,916,331 in fees. By comparison, Nigeria earned a total revenue of […]

Read More REVEALED: Shell paid N1.5tr to Nigeria in 2017 — the highest in the world.

For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to […]

Read More Nigerian railway to Maradi in Niger Republic? No way! By Ochereome Nnanna

By Tyler Durden As the blame game over the alleged chemical attack in Syria escalates ahead of what is expected to be an imminent, if contained, air strike campaign by the US, UK and/or France against Syria, on Friday morning, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had “irrefutable evidence” that the attack – which […]

Read More Russia Has “Irrefutable Evidence” UK Staged Syrian Chemical Attack.

28 years have flown by Fellow Nigerian citizens, On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of […]

Read More Major Gideon Orkar’s, coup speech, April 1990.

Being text of a Joint Declaration by the Lower Niger Congress, the Federation of Oodua People and the Middle Belt Congress at a World Press Conference held on June 30th 2011 at Lagos We, the undersigned Representatives of: The LOWER NIGER CONGRESS, made up of indigenes of The Lower Niger, (the Homeland of the ethnic […]

Read More THE FAILED STATE CALLED NIGERIA: OUR STAND

It would appear that since the dethronement of Alhaji Mustapha Jokolo as the 19th emir of Gwandu and the ascension of his successor, Alhaji Muhammadu Ilyasu Bashar, also known as Major General Muhammadu Jega, this pair of closely associated emirs have placed their connection by family on ice with one suspecting the other. It would […]

Read More Emirs at war over Buhari: How the Coup that Toppled Buhari in 1985 was Hatched and Executed by Babangida, Abacha, et al.

In this Nigeria, an average Southerner is a weakling. A born coward with serious complex issues. A fool and an idiot. A slave. A typical example of a butterfly who thinks himself a bird. But this is not even the problem. The biggest problem is, he doesn’t even realise he is any of those things. […]

Read More THE AVERAGE SOUTHERNER: By Charles Ogbu.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on youths in Nigeria to show President Muhammadu Buhari that they were not lazy and uneducated by voting against him in 2019, saying; “it is painful that the President could describe youths in Nigeria that are daily struggling to make a living under a harsh economy as […]

Read More Nigerian youths not lazy, they must vote against Buhari in 2109 – Fayose.

The Nigerian Senate has stepped down the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls in a general election. The bill, which was considered for second reading, on Wednesday suffered a setback when several lawmakers raised various issues against the amendment. The lawmakers resolved that the bill be stepped down […]

Read More Veiled intimidation: Nigerian Senate steps down ‎Electoral Amendment Bill.

Major Hamza Al Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has been deepening mobilization in the North for his presidential ambition in the 2019 general elections which his followers said has been shaking that part of Nigeria. The former CSO has reached out to prominent northern leaders seeking their […]

Read More Presidential race 2019: Al-Mustapha’s campaign shakes the North.

The Arch Bishop of Canterbury is the head of protestanism, the spiritual head of the house of Lords, the head of international capitalism, superior to the PM of United Kingdom in political ranking after the Queen. He is a strategic global leader exerting tremendous political and spiritual influence. His meeting with Buhari is one in […]

Read More Buhari and Arch Bishop of Canterbury: Brief Strategic Assessment.

Elder statesman and prominent politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai has revealed that massive rigging took place in the North in the 2015 general elections. Yakassai revealed the electoral fraud to journalists when he led the newly formed Northern Leaders’ Stakeholders’ Assembly to former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, at his Uphill Mansion in Minna, the Niger […]

Read More Tanko Yakassai reveals how 2015 poll was rigged in Northern Nigeria.

PRESS RELEASE: We have read in the print and social media Governor Okorocha’s disdainful disrespect to the office of the Governor of Imo State. Unfortunately he has been the occupant of that office since 2011. Okorocha had on Monday, 16th April 2018 opened his basket mouth once more and made vitriolic remarks to the bewildered […]

Read More GOVERNOR OKOROCHA HAS RUN AMOK.

Date: 19th April, 2018 * IGP orders Commissioner of Police FCT Command to beef-up security at the National Assembly. 1. Sequel to the invasion of the Senate Chambers of the National Assembly, Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 18th April, 2018 by some suspected thugs who disrupted the Senate Plenary Session and carted away the […]

Read More PRESS RELEASE: POLICE RECOVERS STOLEN MACE OF THE SENATE.

Our attention has been drawn to a plot by Gov. Okorocha to dupe the 644 Autonomous Communities in Imo State the sum of almost N4billion in the dying days of his regime. In a letter issued by his Commissioner for Community Government, Culture and Traditional Affairs, Hon Louis O. Duru, each of the 644 Communities […]

Read More GOV. OKOROCHA PLOTS TO DEFRAUD AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES TO THE TUNE OF NEARLY N4BILLION.

Buhari’s description of the “Nigerian Youths” at the 2018_Commonwealth Conference would have been entirely correct if only he added the prefix, “Northern” before “Nigerian” and also go further to describe the “North” in question to exclude the Middle-Belt where his “North” is currently staging death shows, delineated Purple in the Map below. That North that […]

Read More THE “NIGERIAN YOUTHS” DESCRIBED BY BUHARI AT THE 2018 COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE ARE THOSE FROM HIS SHARIA NORTH, NOT THE REST OF NIGERIA – LNC.

As a General Caveat, let me posit upfront that all the demands for the *Restructuring of Nigeria* are fueled by the *Self-Determination desires of the Constituent Components of Nigeria.* Let me also posit that *”Restructuring”* as being currently canvassed, basically means the *Reconfiguration and Reconstruction of the Constitutional Architecture of Nigeria* to revert of to […]

Read More UNDERSTANDING THE OBJECTION OF THE EASTERN NIGERIA SELF-DETERMINATION COLLECTIVE TO ANY “RESTRUCTURING” THAT WILL BE DEPENDENT ON AMENDMENTS TO THE 1999 CONSTITUTION.

The Federal Government, said, Wednesday that it is focusing on establishment of cattle ranching as solution to the protracted clashes between the herdsmen and farmers, which resulted in killings of several people and wanton destruction of properties by suspected herders across the country, especially, Benue, Plateau, Taraba and Adamawa States. Minister of Interior, LT. Gen. […]

Read More FG back-pedals, to adopt ranching to end herders, farmers clashes.

Given their backgrounds in the industry, the relationship between Dr Edmund Dakorou as Minister of State for Energy and Mr Funso Kupolokun as the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was always going to be difficult. And so it proved. By 2005, it had become clear that the duo could not […]

Read More A National Security Endangered. By Olusegun Adeniyi.

Investigations have shown that snatching of mace, the symbol of authority in the Nigerian lawmaking institutions as witnessed yesterday at the National Assembly had a root in First Republic’s western region(1965) following the crisis that ensued between the leadership of the defunct Action Group (AG) and the premier of the western region. Late Chief Obafemi […]

Read More The history of stolen maces in Nigeria.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is underway in United Kingdom. On the heels of the conference is the Commonwealth Business Roundtable where experts from all over the Commonwealth Nations are carefully selected to profer solutions on thorny issues affecting member Nations. The theme of this years Business Roundtable is on “”Energy Transition””. Engr Chibuike […]

Read More Engr. Chibuike Achigbu speaks at the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC), has announced its appointment of Mr. Obinna Anyanwu as its first Country Head for Nigeria, ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Obinna Anyanwu who hails from Mbaise in Imo state is the son of 2nd republic Senator Tony Anyanwu and the younger brother of the […]

Read More Commonwealth Investment Council Appoints Obinna Anyanwu Nigeria’s Council Head.

One evening in Medford, Massachusetts in March 2017, I was seated at the back of an elegantly designed classroom at the renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The master’s degree students were from various countries including the USA, Japan, India, Switzerland, Canada, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The Fletcher School was […]

Read More A global leader: Kingsley Moghalu’s inspirational life By Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji

Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange control over $1trillion worth of Africa’s resources in just five commodities – oil, gold, diamonds, coal and platinum. My research for the NGO, War on Want, which has just been published, reveals that 101 companies, most of them British, control $305billion worth of platinum, $276billion worth of oil […]

Read More Britain’s New African Empire.

Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) stirred up a hornet’s nest recently when he called on Nigerians to rise in self-defence against killer herdsmen who have displayed an unrelenting thirst for human blood. He blamed the government and the security agencies which have shown articulable suspicion of collusion in the mindless carnage being perpetuated by herdsmen. […]

Read More Danjuma’s Belated Call to Action

If it be true indeed that Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, did say that “The Shortest route to Igbo Presidency in Nigeria is to support Buhari in 2019”, my response to him is to inform him that his suggestion is dumb, to say the least. Whoever sees the […]

Read More WITH THE WORSE-THAN-APARTHEID 1999 CONSTITUTION OF NIGERIA IN PLACE, IGBO PRESIDENCY IS THE POISONED CHALICE SOUGHT ONLY BY IGBO EFULEFU.

The Good Book posits that in the mouth of two witnesses, a matter is established. I will put aside this piece by Austin Okere titled *”You do not Embellish a War”* amongst the very few that get so archived, as evidence that there are indeed others who understand the nature of the danger the Igbo […]

Read More BETWEEN THE RESTRUCTURIST BANTUSTAN GRADUALISTS AND THE ANTI-APARTHEID SELF-DETERMINISTS IN EASTERN NIGERIA: A VOLCANO WAITING TO ERUPT – Tony Nnadi 05/04/18

An Abuja Based Developmental Economist, Dr. Katch Ononuju, has revealed President Muhammadu Buhari’s role in the drastic decline of Nigeria’s foreign transactions, from N274.32 billion in December 2017, to N128.83 billion in February 2018. According to the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Foreign Portfolio Investors’ FPI records, transactions at the floor of the NSE dropped by […]

Read More President Muhammadu Buhari’s Role In The N123 Billion Drop In Foreign Transactions, Exposed.

PRESS RELEASE The attention of former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, has been drawn to a newspaper report in the Monday, April 16, 2018 edition of The Sun, titled, “Why Ihedioha Must Leave PDP – Oye”. The former Deputy Speaker views the statement as “unwarranted, mischievous and a misplaced demand, […]

Read More IHEDIOHA DISMISSES OYE’S CALL TO QUIT PDP AS UNWARRANTED, MISCHIEVIOUS.… INSISTS, PDP IS THE ONLY VEHICLE TO LIBERATE IMO, NIGERIA.

In response to a comment by someone who wanted to know why the British are crying more than the bereaved as One-Nigeria staggers to it’s inevitable demise at ARABA Terminus, I had written as follows in 2017: “The whole essence of “One-Nigeria” over which tight Caliphate control was emplaced, instituted and promoted by Britain, was […]

Read More BRITAIN AND THE DESPERATION TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE – Tony Nnadi 07/04/18

The Senator representing Imo East Senatorial District and front line governorship aspirant in Imo State, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy) has been in the news lately, mostly for the right and positive reasons. Three days ago, the ranking Senator of the federal republic addressed a press conference at his residence wherein he expressed displeasure at the […]

Read More Issue Based Politics and Samdaddy’s Hate for Hate Speech. By Lancelot Obiaku

Africa’s most celebrated novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe did posit in his book Arrow of God, that “there is no honour greater than the one bestowed on a person by his own people”. This axiomatic assertion by the late literacy icon, underscores and reinforces another age long expression that” east, west, north, and south, home is […]

Read More Ihedioha: The Man Imo Needs Now. By Kennedy Eweama.

HATE SPEECH, IMO STATE, 2019 AND THEREAFTER I welcome you gentlemen of the Press and the guardian of our speech and actions to his press briefing. I have been moved to address and brief you on the thorny issue which is slowly and gradually destroying the very fabrics that binds our humanity and brotherhood, particularly […]

Read More FULL TEXT OF PRESS BRIEFING BY DISTINGUISHED SENATOR SAMUEL NNAEMEKA ANYANWU (SAMDADDY) HELD AT HIS OWERRI RESIDENCE ON APRIL 14, 2018

The three-pronged focus of the current administration resonated through the conversation, as President Muhammadu Buhari held a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister, Theresa May, on Monday at 10, Downing Street, London. “We campaigned on three major issues, to secure the country, revive the economy and fight corruption,” said the president. “We have elections next […]

Read More I’M BOTHERED ABOUT SECURITY, ECONOMY, NOT 2019 ELECTIONS – BUHARI TELLS BRITISH PM THERESA MAY

The governor of Imo state, Chief Rochas Okorocha has on Monday said that he will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after his second term re-election. Rochas who disclosed this while hosting some political stakeholders at the state government house in Owerri, opined that, “Buhari will win again and again and after Buhari, the turn will come […]

Read More After Buhari, it’s my turn – Okorocha.

Nigeria Police Academy (NPA), Wudil, Kano is inviting suitably qualified Nigerian citizens for admission into it 6 th Regular Course degree programmes for the 2018/2019 academic session. Candidates admitted into the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil degree course will undergo a combined academic and Police training for a minimum period of Five (5) Years leading to […]

Read More Nigeria Police Academy Admission.

April 14, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid may hit the rocks because of the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen in the middle Belt and some southern states. Statistics recently released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that the country as of January 2018 had a total of 73,944,312 registered voters. Herdsmen have […]

Read More 2019: How herdsmen may make Buhari lose.

As reactions continue to trail Monday’s declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would seek re-election in the 2019 general elections, there are indications that some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would dump the ruling party ahead of the polls. The looming defection, it was learnt, is because the President’s confirmation of his […]

Read More 2019: Mass defection looms in APC.

The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has confirmed that the commission will not deploy the use of electronic gadgets to conduct voting during the 2019 general elections. Yakubu, who is also the President of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) said this while briefing reporters at the end […]

Read More No electronic voting in 2019 – INEC chairman

Fellow Nigerians, please, permit me to say it as bluntly and categorically as possible, our dear country, Nigeria, the giant of Africa, is slumbering and snoring deeply. The Federal Government apologists are free to live in delusion and denial, but I stand by this obvious position. They can continue to deceive President Muhammadu Buhari and […]

Read More THE REASONS NIGERIA MUST WAKE UP FAST. BY DELE MOMODU.

(Intersociety Nigeria: 5th April 2018) The National Assembly of Nigeria and the organized labour (NLC, TUC, etc) have been dangerously aiding the Executive Arm of central Government in Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to sink the country into irreparable and harmful borrowings/debts since mid 2015. By the end of this […]

Read More Others Countries Borrow To Transform While Nigeria Under President Buhari Borrows To Become The World Capital Of Poverty.

The news of the sudden death of my friend, Hon. Independence Ogunewe, on Tuesday, March 3, 2018 came to me as a rude shock. We were both elected into the 6th Assembly in 2007 as members of the House of Representatives even though he had been there before me betwwen 2003 and 2007 in the […]

Read More TRIBUTE: Hon. Independence Ogunewe: A Man Of Courage Has Gone Home. By Senator Dino Melaye

We have watched as the NNPC hiked our daily fuel consumption of petrol from 30 million litres to over 60 million litres, yet over 70% of the country suffer from one form of scarcity or another. To justify the above claim, they told us that they have spent $5.8 billion between December and February. If […]

Read More Questions nobody is asking government.

For the life of me, I will never understand how former President Olusegun Obasanjo does it. When you think he is done, he has just begun. I have watched in utter amusement how he has, yet again, wangled his way into the front page of newspapers on a daily basis. I don’t know of any […]

Read More Obasanjo as Nigeria’s moral compass. By Simon Kolawole.

The Chairman of George Uboh Whistleblowers Network [GUWN], Dr. George Uboh has sharply condemned the Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who, a few days ago, released two lists containing alleged list of members of the People Democratic Party [PDP] that looted the treasures of the country. Reacting to the development, the foremost […]

Read More Looters’ List: George Uboh Berates Lai Mohammed

‘Fixing Nigeria’ is actually a book, written in an unconventional style and content. Of course the thrust is fixing Nigeria, a nation where everything seems to be going wrong despite huge government efforts and investments. Such missing links and how they could be articulated into a workable whole is what the book under review has […]

Read More FIXING NIGERIA’: CHUKS INYABA-NWAJOJIE’S REVOLUTIONARY PRESCRIPTIONS. By Law Mefor

I Have known Major Hamza El-Mustapha for 17 years. We have been together since our cadet days. He was with the former Head of State, General Sani Abacha. But in 1985, he had some problems with him. And was posted to Calabar. I was also posted to Calabar. I was there till the end of […]

Read More GEN SANNI ABACHA, MAJOR MUSTAPHA AND MYSELF – BY LT COL (DR) IBRAHIM YAKASSAI JAN 30, 2011.