MAKE ELECTION DEBATES COMPULSORY
Pre-election debates, by any standard and in any clime, provide the right platform to elective office seekers to not only project themselves and their agenda for the people should they triumph at the...
View ArticleStill on Lagos governorship race
To all intents and purposes, the coming days in the life of Nigeria will be very interesting, and Lagos, being the country’s economic nerve-centre, will surely not be left out. Come March 28, 2015,...
View ArticleWike to Amaechi: Respond to corruption allegations against your administration
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike has urged the Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi to respond to corruption allegations against...
View ArticleTaraba SDP candidate raises alarm over threat to life
Social Democratic Party, SDP governorship candidate in Taraba state, Chief David Sabo Kente has raised alarm over repeated threats to his life by his political opponents in the state. Addressing...
View ArticleAPC blames ex Deputy Speaker’s murder on PDP
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Akwa Ibom has indicted the Vice Chairman of Ukanafun council, Mr Effiom Abai over the murder of the party’s House of Assembly candidate for the constituency, Mr...
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Tsunami in Rivers: Commissioners, aides dump Amaechi
Last Sunday’s defection of Rivers State deputy governor, Engineer Tele Ikuru, from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have set the stage for political...
View ArticleI’ll triumph — Abaribe
Senatorial candidate, Abia South for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has described as inconsequential the character of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA candidate...
View ArticleNigeria’s evolving political democracy
AMONG the many contending external shocks, as Nigerians prepare for another general election in 2015, are the sliding global oil prices and the net effect on fiscal and external buffers culminating on...
View ArticlePost-March 28 and possible political scenarios
The March 28 presidential election has been dubbed the election of all elections and described as an election for the soul of Nigeria. Whichever way the result of the election goes, there are possible...
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Election: Obama urges Nigerians to shun violence
Four days to Saturday’s presidential election, United States President Barack Obama yesterday wrote a special letter to Nigerians, where he charged them to appreciate the progress the country has made...
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ARAB SHEIKS DONATE $700M TO BUHARI’S CAMPAIGN
Fund meant to stop Jonathan, says PDP Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that some Arab Sheiks have come to the rescue of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Gen....
View ArticleFund raising platform: NCC appeals court ruling
Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, has appealed the ruling of Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, that the commission should pay the sum of N500million as damages to All...
View ArticleJonathan inaugurates Alaoji power plant, targets 6 others
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday commissioned first phase of the Alaoji power project in Aba, Abia State, and pledged to complete the second phase soon He said six additional power plants would be...
View ArticleAPGA crisis: Supreme Court adjourns hearing to March 31
Supreme Court yesterday adjourned the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, leadership dispute between Chief Maxi Okwu and Chief Victor Umeh to March 31, 2015. The five-man panel presided by Justice...
View ArticleTroops arrest male terrorist in hijab, capture Borno town
Military troops on counterterrorism mission in North-East Nigeria have arrested a suspected male terrorist who disguised himself as a woman fully dressed in hijab. According to a statement issued...
View ArticleI paid N35,000 to join cult – Suspect
A cult suspect, Ikechinachi Chinyere who is currently in police custody, has stated that he paid the sum of N35, 000 to join cultism in Rivers State. Chinyere, 31, was paraded alongside other suspected...
View ArticleFG cautions youth against electoral violence
Special assistant to the president on Youths and Student Matters, Comrade Jude Imagwe has cautioned the youths against electoral violence even as he assured of adequate security before, during and...
View ArticleBuhari for UNIABUJA presidential debate
All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari is expected to participate in today’s presidential debate being organised by the authorities of the University of...
View ArticleEmma Ugolee’s kidney awareness walk attracts celebs
Ex broadcaster, Emma Ugolee’s dream of seeing celebrities walk on Lagos street for the cause of Kidney disease came alive recently when celebrities which included Desmond Eliot, Monalisa Chinda, Julius...
View ArticleEdo NBA to sue Oshiomhole over protracted JUSUN strike
The Bar Association, NBA, in Edo State yesterday threatened legal action against the state governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, for continued disobedience of court order affirming the constitutional...
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