I read with a lot of amusement the piece of clap-trap circulated through the Nigerian blogosphere last week titled ‘The Bitter truth about the Igbo” authored by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode. I thought for a minute: but they said the guy went to Cambridge! Then again, take a scallywag to Cambridge, he merely becomes a Cambridge-trained…
Ahead of the 2015 elections, there are indications that northern leaders of the Christian faith after heavy consultation and part of a grand strategy with Muslim North have expressed their preference for the emergence of a presidential candidate from the geopolitical zone of their religious belief.
A NIGERIAN is feared dead while four Thai nationals were kidnapped by unknown gunmen who invaded a Rivers State government-owned mega fish farm at Buguma, in Asari-Toru Local Council Area.
The Report of the House of Representatives ad hoc Committee on fuel subsidy, which revealed the criminal looting of the nation’s resources, is a vindication of the Nigerian peoples protest on the issue. The people had for eight days beginning January 9, 2012 gone on strike, held mass rallies and street protests against Government’s mindless…
A veteran presidential candidate and a major stakeholder in the newly-registered All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Tuesday said the new party was determined to push out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2015.
At least 194, 000 children below the age of five die annually in Nigeria from diarrhoea, Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Dr. Paul Orhii, has said.
Security forces yesterday imposed a 24-hour curfew on Potiskum, Yobe State, as they went after suspected Boko Haram insurgents thought to have slipped into town with large quantity of explosives. Members of the Joint Task Force cordoned off a part of the town and began a house-to-house search for the insurgents said to be planning…
Operatives of the Joint Task Force has taken into detention two professionals, a medical doctor and a lawyer in Borno State, allegedly for their roles in the prevailing violence in the area. The authorities of the Defence Headquarters are silent on the issues that culminated in the arrest of the doctor and the lawyer.
President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declared, Thursday, that those who predicted that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015 will be disappointed insisting that Nigeria will not disintegrate.
The plight of residents of Umuekwunne Irete in Imo State got worse yesterday Thursday August 8th 2013 as fulani cattle herdsmen opened fire on the community, injuring several young men. Worse off is Chibuzor Hezekiah Okorie (pictured above) who was shot in the stomach and also cut in the chest and leg with a machete.…