THE Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, has faulted the setting up of a fresh Visitation Panel to the University of Benin, UNIBEN, just as he urged the Federal Government to release the White Paper on the previous exercise for the period of 2004-2009, when Prof. Emmanuel Nwanze was Vice-Chancellor of the institution.
CONFUSION and shock was still hanging over the political course of opposition gubernatorial candidates in the five or six States affected by the Wednesday High Court judgment extending the time in office of their governors.
GIVEN his legendary capacity in the matters of stealthy statecraft, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida’s recent assertion pooh-poohing talk of an agreement between him and President Goodluck Jonathan was an interesting intervention into the confusion surrounding ongoing talks between Northern elders and the President.
Immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, opened up on those behind the failure of the proposed alliance between the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, saying the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, frustrated the move through some of its agents, who clandestinely crept into the process.
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday berated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for mismanaging the fortunes of the state during its almost eight years in power.
My senior colleague Paul Bassey has written on this twice. Sani Toro, a one time FA scribe has commented on it and even quoted Article 22 of the CAF Statutes that clearly states how a vacant position in CAF Executive can be filled.
It amazes me how those who should educate the people are misleading them.
A 39 years old driver with SCC Construction Company, Jabi Quarter Abuja, Dele Ali, has been docked before an Abuja Magistrate court for sexually harassing his female colleague, one Mrs. Martin Kure.
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday declared that nobody, particularly the people of the South-East geo-political zone, owed him favour or gratitude for appointing one of their own, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, as the Chief of Army Staff.
THIS becomes critical though, considering the vantage position of Lagos as the former federal capital of Nigeria and the commercial hub of Nigeria, which has continued to make it attractive to immigrants from both within and outside Nigeria in search of a better life. Lagos houses both the busiest sea ports and airports in Nigeria and serves as the headquarters to most corporations and national conglomerates.
IT was another bloody day in Ibadan yesterday as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Oyo State and the state police command clashed when the latter led a demolition team to the secretariat of the union at Olomi.
THE attention of the Management of Nigeria Immigration Service has been drawn to a flagrant and unfathomable publication in This Day Newspaper of Thursday, February 10, 2011 entitled: “The Rebranding War in Immigration”.
FOUR years after he left office, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, admitted that the people in the South West did not vote for him in 1999 and 2003, saying they did so for reasons best known to them and commended the people of Northern Nigerian for voting for him during the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections
Founder of the defunct Nigeria Advanced Party, NAP, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, has called for a revolution in the country, saying the April elections will be the spark needed for the revolution.
SEVENTEEN people died and 66 others seriously injured in an accident that occurred along the Suleja-Minna road on Wednesday.
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