Nigeria is on the brink of constitutional crisis with its ailing president not transferring powers to his deputy and political king makers feuding over his succession, a senior lawyer and a former U.S. envoy have warned. President Umaru Yar’Adua has been absent from Africa’s most populous nation for more than a month receiving treatment for […]

By Luka Binniyat & Wole Mosadoni Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described Late First Lady, Maryam Babangida as a woman of vision who had a target and actualized her dreams. Speaking with newsmen at the residence of former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, the former president said late Maryam was much more concerned on how […]

Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, has enjoined Nigerians to remain committed and continue to display those virtues that have kept the nation together despite our diverse cultural, ethnic, religious and political backgrounds. Specifically, he charged Nigerians to continue to display love for one another and our dear country Nigeria. “True patriotism and brotherly […]

By Emmanuel Aziken ABUJA—The National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS,  has denounced the botched terrorist plot by Nigerian born, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab against an American airliner, saying his terrorist inclinations are completely alien to the enterprise and character of Nigerian students. The national student body in a statement in Abuja nevertheless, cautioned the international community […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—A Federal high court sitting in Abuja, yesterday renewed its order directing the Justice Kayode Somolu-led Judicial Commission of Inquiry into disturbances at Ijebu-Ife to suspend sitting. The court also renewed its directive to the Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel  to stop the dissolution of the  Ijebu-East Local Government Council following […]