I don’t need your votes, Akunyili tells fake drug dealers
FORMER Minister of Information and Communications and senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central in the April 2011 election, Professor Dora Akunyili, has said that fake drug dealers who are allegedly threatening to deny her their votes during the forthcoming election for her role as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, were wasting their time.
The true lessons we learnt from Awo- Adebanjo
Chief Ayo Adebanjo, lawyer and prominent disciple of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, began his political career as Organising Secretary of the defunct Action Group, AG.
Kerosene explosion tragedy: Man still in shock
FOR Mr. Hope Adeleke, a serving police officer attached to one of the Police formations in Warri, Delta Delta State, Monday January 24 may possibly be the worst day of his life.
Why Bakare must say no
IT did not sound real. When I read in the papers that the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, was considering Pastor Tunde Bakare as his presidential running mate, my mind did not dwell on it for more than a few moments because I thought the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) would quickly call a press conference and give an emphatic answer: “No”.
The odd favours Jonathan over Ribadu
A LOT have been said on the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan and the former Nigeria anti-corruption czar-cum-crime buster, Nuhu Ribadu. For this analysis, I paired these two candidates because both candidates currently receive the highest number of support online and in public arguments over who would lead the country.
Counter move!
Hi Readers! A reader sent a text to ask if Belinda was present at my daughter’s traditional wedding in Jos just before Christmas.
How Ebebi saved Bayelsa State
THIS piece is provoked not so much by any form of political or social affiliations with the Alei of Aleibiri, but a desire to deflate a balloon of fallacy which now surrounds Ebebi’s contested impeachment.
Jos, Bauchi mayhem: SSS finds bomb in church
SECTARIAN crisis in the northern part of the country, especially in Plateau and Bauchi States which has claimed hundreds of lives took a dramatic turn, yesterday, as the State Security Service and the police averted a bomb blast in a church in Bauchi even as anti-riot police corporal was slain and an inspector injured by hoodlums as they tried to repel an invasion of the students’ hostels of the University of Jos
Cleric laments high cost of electoral programmes
The Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J.V. Obinna, has lamented the cost of financing electoral programmes in Nigeria.
Strike paralyses activities at Osun state-owned hospitals
Medical services in the Osun State government health institutions have been paralysed following a three-week old industrial strike embarked upon by the Osun State Association of Medical and Dental Officers, OSAMDO, to press home their demand for the implementation of Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, COMESS.
Alleged N25bn fraud: EFCC trails Igbinedion
TROUBLES seem unending for former governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Nosahare Igbinedion, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will today file fresh charges against him at an Abuja Federal High Court over an alleged N25billion scam.
