archiveSeptember 2020

Noble Laureate Professor Woke Soyinka has agreed with former President Olusegun Obasanjo that Nigeria is more divided under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. In a statement he signed on Tuesday titled: “Between ‘Dividers-in-chief’ and Dividers-in-law,” Soyinka emphasized that he was no fan of Obasanjo but admitted the former President read the...

The Alliance for the Survival of COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) has said that it would back the planned protest by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) against the anti-people policies of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration. The group led by foremost rights lawyer and Chairman of ASCAB, Femi Falana, in a statement...

The Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State election, Godwin Obaseki, has faulted claims made by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a televised broadcast on Tuesday. Obaseki said this in a press statement by his Special...

I am notoriously no fan of Olusegun Obasanjo, General, twice former president and co-architect, with other past leaders, of the crumbling edifice that is still generously called Nigeria. I have no reasons to change my stance on his record. Nonetheless, I embrace the responsibility of calling attention to any accurate...

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has condemned the Department of State Services (DSS) for repeatedly inviting Obadiah Mailafia for interrogations, warning the Buhari administration that no amount of pressure will deter the people from expressing their feelings under “a government that has clearly lost focus...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has concluded plan to flag off a special patrol, code named Operation PANTHER II aimed at checkmating driving against traffic in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)and Niger State. Operation Panther II which commences Monday, September 14, 2020, is part of FRSC strategies to promote...

  The Borno Government has confirmed the death of the Emir of Biu, Mai-Umar Mustafa-Aliyu, who passed on in the early hours of Tuesday. The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Alhaji Babakura Abba-Jato, confirmed the death in a statement in Maiduguri. Abba-Jatau said “Inna Lillahi wa innah ilayhi...

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has reacted as the United States (US) imposed visa sanction on some Nigerian politicians, saying the move would help Nigeria ensure credible and transparent elections. Recall that the US had yesterday imposed a Visa ban on some politicians involved in rigging the last Bayelsa...

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja Tuesday for Accra, Ghana to attend an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the situation in Mali. He is representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the summit and will join other leaders in the sub-region to discuss...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday disclosed that inflation rate in Nigeria recorded its biggest increase so far this year, rising to 13.22 per cent in August. The 13.22 per cent inflation rate is the highest since April 2018, the NBS data showed. The NBS, in its...