A senior NAN journalist, Rotimi Ijikanmi, gives an account of how a Medview flight from Abuja to Ilorin almost did not happen and when it did after almost seven hours of delay, was almost ruined by bad weather and poor landing equipment at Ilorin Airport.

In an attempt to justify the dubious process by which $1 Billion was taken from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government ostensibly to fund an anti terror war with the same Boko Haram that the Buhari administration said was ‘finished’ and ‘technically defeated,’ the Zamfara state Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, made some startling revelations which has exposed him to ridicule and further shown that his party, the All Progressive Congress, and its members, are a patently dishonest bunch with no credibility whatsoever.

Subsequent governments have unsuccessfully tried to bring back the identity card project. However, Nigerians seem to have lost fate in the project as many of those qualified have not turned up for registration for obvious reasons and even though those that have had, the relevant agency of government saddled with the responsibility to  register and issue the card has not lived up to expectation.

The mix of the progressives and the ultra conservatives have not given us the change we expected. It was a union that was bound to fail from the beginning

When Mr. Abubakar Danburam-Nuhu, Chairman of the House of Representatives’ ad-hoc committee on Treasury Single Account (TSA) met with stakeholders last Wednesday, he made some strong observations and remarks.

Nigerians who wish to go home to Nigeria but applying to visit Nigeria with another country’s passport are charged a fee that is charged to ALL foreigners applying for a travel Visa to Nigeria. They are also required to submit to biometric data enrollment as is the case for all foreign visa applicants – just […]

A dug up article on interrogations and encounters that might throw some light on the flip-side of the Zimbabwean struggle now buried underneath the dominant news of the fall of an African sit-tight ruler

IT has been brewing underground and just recently  in far- away Abidjan  Cote D Voire, he dropped the hint he might contest future elections soon. It is the clearest indication from President Buhari that he would have another shot at the Presidency in 2019.

By Bonaventure Melah I read with dissatisfaction a report by a leading northern-based national newspaper titled Ghost Companies Lift N1.1trillion Crude Oil filed in which the paper reported that some indigenous companies not registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) have lifted Nigeria Crude Oil Grades valued at 3.5billion US Dollars (N1.1billion) in the last […]

The State Government and the traditional rulers are working together to boost Edo State Festival of Arts and Culture