The South-South Study Group, (3SG) has called for a national referendum to give political stimulus to the recent resolution of Southern governors on restructuring and unanimity against open grazing among others. While lauding the governors on their resolution, 3SG charged them not to allow themselves to be cowed by political party loyalty. The 3SG, a […]

Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, a medical doctor, an administrator, and a politician, served as governor of Enugu State from 1999 to 2007, and as Enugu East senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from 2007 to 2011. He was re-elected as a senator in 2019 and is currently the chairman of, Senate Committee […]

Buhari had run in 2003 and 2007, and he lost on the two occasions without me. The 2011 election was different. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had entrenched corruption to such an extent, depressing our economic growth and development, that I was forced to write a book. The book, PDP CORRUPTION INCORPORATION, was published in 2008.

The Commissioner for Health in Plateau, Dr Nimkong Ndam, says that 44,000 persons have so far received the first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the state. Ndam, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos, said that the state had stopped administering the first dose […]

Modakeke community, in Osun State, has refuted news of communal clash between its people and indigenes of Ile-Ife, saying the report on the social media is fake.

It takes a captain with the right mix of education, exposure and experience to calm the ship amidst a raging storm, as the appointment and one-year management of the Office of Chief of Staff to the President by Professor Ibrahim Gambari has shown. Diplomat and technocrat at the highest global bureaucracies, Gambari has ensured a clear direction and less drama at the highest office in Nigeria. He does so noiselessly but with systematic efficiency.

Jalingo, Taraba State capital, on Monday, was in a sombre mood. You could see through their eyes the pain and anguish. From young to old, man to woman, elite to peasant, all you could hear was, “she lived a good life.”

SINCE the creation of Delta Central, the people of the senatorial district have not had a qualitative and rewarding representation in the Red Chamber as they currently have in Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Deputy President of the Senate. Virtually every community in the senatorial district is feeling the impact of Omo-Agege.

The number one bestselling author and former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Pastor Reno Omokri, has said that president Muhammadu Buhari is much needed in Nigeria, especially by Nigerians than he is expected in France. Pastor Omokri who gave the statement on Monday, said the various insecurity challenges bedevelling Nigeria makes Buhari more needed in […]

Long working hours led to 745,000 deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016. This is according to estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) published on Monday. Ischemic or ischaemia is a restriction in blood supply to tissues, causing a shortage of oxygen that is needed for […]

Amid renewed attacks by terrorists in the North-East, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South), says the bulk of the arms Boko Haram Islamist group is using to terrorize the region, particularly his native Borno State, were stolen from the military and other security forces.

By Ugochukwu Alaribe Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika has urged the federal and state governments as well as Nigerians to fight insecurity in the way they fought Covid-19 and won the battle. Ihejirika who stated this while delivering a keynote address at the leadership capacity building conference, tagged; Leadership Impact in […]

FIFTY-one years after the end of the Nigerian Civil War, multiple forms of insecurity across the country have brought Nigeria to what many described as the point of another war. With instability escalating by the day, citizens are fast losing confidence in the ability of the Federal Government to ensure the security of lives and property.

The Federal Government and most state governments in Nigeria deserve a pat on the back for the able way they have steered the war against the coronavirus pandemic since the end of March 2020 when we embraced the first lock-downs to curb its spread. Commendations also go to the health workforce who, despite personal risks […]

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has said that the Ijaw nation will never be intimidated by other ethnic nationalities with secessionist or expansionist agenda, stressing that the Ijaw nation has never been conquered and will ever be conquered