SOME years back, a  close friend invited three of her friends to lunch to mark her husband’s birthday.  Just the five of us, she warned on the phone – a subtle way of telling us not to even think of bringing any hangers-on to her ‘exclusive’ do.  We all three knew Bose and her no-nonsense […]

STAKEHOLDERS and groups in the coastal states of Niger-Delta, taken aback at the reintroduction of the contentious Water Resources Bill currently before the National Assembly, have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to jettison the planned regulation, saying it was a threat to the survival of riverine people.

Allow 7m Nigerians to complete voter registration or face legal action, SERAP tells INEC

By Ugochukwu Alaribe, UMUAHIA Controversy is raging over the National Diploma statement of result issued to a student/businessman, Chief Okafor Gregory Okwuchukwu, by Abia State Polytechnic, Aba. This is coming one month after the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, had withdrawn the accreditation of the polytechnic over non-payment of over 30 months arrears of […]

Amb. Raymond Edoh, the United States Habitat Youth Humanitarian Ambassador, is also the Nigerian Youth Ambassador to the United States, Secretary-General of the Nigerian Youth Congress, and Convener, Go and Get Your PVC and Youth Must Vote Campaign’. In this interview, Edoh speaks among others, on how homelessness is a contributing factor to the current […]

Bandits kidnap Catholic priest in Abia, demand N50m ransom

2023: Jigawa APC senatorial candidate died in Chinese hospital

By Ezra Ukanwa, Abuja Abuja residents are jittery following daring attacks on Kuje correctional facility in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Guards Brigade, the military unit protecting President Muhammadu Buhari. Before then, a presidential convoy on its way to Katsina had been ambushed by insurgents.  And as if the security situation in the FCT was […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire was deputy governor of Lagos State and Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. Speaking with State House Press Corps during a briefing organized by the Presidential Media Team, she says no SDGs projects will be abandoned. She explains why it was premature to do an […]

The choice of Bishop Isaac Idahosa as the running mate to the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwakwanso, left many surprised by the fact that he isn’t a politician. What could have informed the selection of this prominent religious leader? What political structure does he have? These were the questions many asked in the wake of this emergence.