How President Jonathan allowed five state governors who are very relevant in their states and in the polity at large to decamp to the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, is known only to him. He has also overseen the loss of majority of his party in the House of Representatives. Something similar may happen in the Senate when it resumes this week. What all these translate to is that there is flight of negotiation skills. Jonathan needs Cohen.
The President has allowed the perception that he is a weakling to stick.

Chairman of the Organisation and Mobilisation Committee for the Peoples Democratic Party in South West, Chief Buruji Kashamu Saturday, lashed out at former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his latest letter of withdrawal from the party, saying, the ex-President was a beneficiary of his wealth.

The 2013/2014 academic calendar for public primary and secondary schools in Abia might be distorted following the indefinite strike by the state branch of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT).

Families, friends and associates of Prof. Wole Soyinka on Friday in Ibadan paid tributes to late Ms Iyetade Soyinka, first daughter of the Nobel laurel as she was buried in the Oyo State capital.

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has written another letter, few weeks after his letter to President Goodluck Jonathan caused an uproar in the polity.

Saturday’s local government elections in Anambra witnessed late arrival of materials in many of the polling units in the central senatorial zone.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the materials were still being loaded into vehicles at about noon in some council headquarters for onward distribution to polling units.

The South Sudan Government on Saturday in Addis Ababa rejected international calls for the release of 11 rebel leaders captured in the wake of the conflict between the two parties.

Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died at a hospital near Tel Aviv on Saturday, aged of 85, after spending eight years in a coma, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said.

Residents of five communities in Olorunda Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Badagry Lagos State, on Friday protested the demolition of numerous houses in their area, which left them displaced.

They took their protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly in Ikeja, where they urged the lawmakers to come to their rescue.

A 21-year-old man, Mansur Tanko, on Friday, burnt himself to death in Jalingo, after a disagreement with his father, Tanko Mijinyawa, over marriage. The Taraba Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Kwaji, confirmed the incident and said the Jalingo Division of the police had commenced investigation into the matter. Tanko, according to an eyewitness, Alhaji […]

The management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, gave a clearer account of how it spent the $10.8 billion, the remaining part of the controversial un-remitted $48.9 billion oil revenue.

The National Working Committee, NWC of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have passed a vote of no confidence on the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

Over the years, the population boom in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of the country has put undue pressure on government and individuals as the demand for housing continued to rise far and above what the urbanised areas can offer. This could be one of the reasons for the high number of slums within the precincts of the city of Lagos.

Taraba State Governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, yesterday flew into Abuja, the nation’s capital with a view to meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan and former Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, to pave the way for him to return to his office.

A civil servant working at the Office of the Deputy Governor, Mr. Dameshi Lukas has been reported dead as a result of Lassa fever infection in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital.