The Advance Automatic Finger Identification System, AAFIS, is what the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is deploying to ensure that it gets a ‘CLEAN’ Voter Register, VR. But the process is slow and painstaking. Yet, the Commission is going ahead because it remains its surest way of providing Nigerians with a Valid Voter Register, VVR

The most daunting challenge confronting Nigeria and threatening it’s very existence is the emergent national insecurity. It is imperative that every well-meaning Nigerian should be genuinely worried about this rather unfortunate development, especially after a successful celebration of Nigeria’s centenary. We hear on daily basis reports killings of innocent Nigerians, school children, nursing mothers in the north-east by insurgents; Fulani herdsmen fighting with farmers and leaving dozens of dead, villages razed, thousands of villagers displaced in Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa States.

GENERAL Overseer of Intercessory Prayer Ministries (IPM), Prophet ThankGod Abam believes that the end of an era of insurgency, their sponsors and sympathizers in the country had commenced.

By Evelyn Usman December 9, 2013 will forever remain indelible in the memory of  54-year-old Jonathan Ogidi-Nwankwo, who  returned  to the country after 26 years  stay in The Netherlands.  This  followed his  abduction by some   suspected  policemen in  an eatery around Lekki at gun point. The Abia State indigene  was said to have been driven […]

Kidnapping those children in that circumstance is bad enough. Unfortunately in our country, we don’t appear to care about human life. It is a pathetic situation that more than 200 students sleeping in their dormitory were abducted by terrorists. But what is worse is that after that our leaders began to talk rubbish. Some were even talking as if it did not happen and no body made any move to do anything until the Americans and others came.

The activities of Boko Haram and the abduction of over 200 school girls in Chibok, Borno State should not stop the celebration of Children’s Day, the founder of a non-governmental organisation, NGO, Yellow Jerry Can Foundation (YJCF) Adaora Onyechere, has said.

How can a governor collect up to one billion naira (minimum is half a billion) monthly? It is scandalous and they don’t account for it; that is why it is so convenient for them; you cannot probe them. That should be expunged from the Constitution. The police is there to protect them, I don’t know what security vote they need. I don’t know who put that thing in the Constitution and they are capitalizing on it and just scooping up the entire money and taking home.

*’Why it is difficult to access Sambisa forest’ Hon Kaka Kyari Gujbawu, a member of the House of Representatives, represents Maiduguri Federal Constituency, Borno State. In this interview, he speaks on the move to extend the state of emergency in the troubled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. By Emman Ovuakporie There is a fresh […]

Charity Uzoechima, the 26-year-old girl who converted to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for “safety” for three months, is in the news again.

Nigerians have been in the doldrums for far too long that most of us have lost the means to feel for others, we have stripped ourselves of every shred of compassion for our fellow human beings. So in a country where most profess to be religiously minded, we definitely do not practise what we preach.

Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia said that his predecessor, Stephen Keshi has a lot of work to do, to bring his key players to a competitive level, since most of the players in his squad had little playing time in their clubs during the season.

BY IKENNA ASOMBA Lagos State governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2011 election and former Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Ade Dosunmu,  in this interview, says there is nothing wrong if international friends offer to help Nigeria  contain Boko-Haram insurgency, stating that his party has […]

It was another celebration of cultural heritage of the Afenmai as people from all walks of gathered for 2014 Afenmai Mass Assembly of Masquerades Outing

“Nor should we listen to those who say ‘The voice of the people is the voice of God’. For the turbulence of the [masses] is always close to insanity.” Alcuin

It is very true that Nigeria’s elite – its political, business and intellectual leadership – has much to answer for its regard of its historical role in shaping a better Nigeria for posterity. Part of the crisis of Nigeria is elite incoherence where it matters.