Fresh crisis is looming in President Goodluck Jonathan’s state between loyalists of his wife, Dame Patience, and supporters of Governor Seriake Dickson over supremacy on the control of the political soul of Bayelsa. It was learnt that the First Lady had finalised plans to move against the Governor through impeachment process. It was further learnt that First Lady’s loyalists were ... Read More »
The Imo state National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, has granted an ex-parte motion, for substituted service, filed by the Accord Party to serve the People’s Democratic Party’s senatorial candidate in the March 28th National Assembly elections, Chief Athanasius Nneji Achonu, over an alleged unlawful exclusion of the party’s official logo on the ballot paper, in the concluded senatorial election in ... Read More »
LAGOS or Eko, apart from being cosmopolitan, is the largest city in Sub-Saharan Africa, with population as large as Ghana’s. Apart from being the business hub of Nigeria, it is the second fastest growing city in Africa and the seventh in the world. At the Legislative Council of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Igbo man was the member representing Lagos ... Read More »
The Federal Government has been called upon to look into the possibility of establishing a special low interest rate fund to aid borrowings by private sector investors in social services as a means of halting the decadence in the nation’s crumbling social infrastructure. Chief Executive Officer of MeadowHall Group, Mrs. Kehinde Nwani, made the appeal during a recent media roundtable ... Read More »
Professor Wole Soyinka has denied comments attributed to him concerning the voting pattern of the Igbo in the March 28 presidential election. The report, published by TheCable, alleged that he accused the Igbo of voting according to their “stomachs”. In an angry response to the story, Soyinka said in a statement: “I have just read a statement attributed to me ... Read More »
In his characteristic bluntness, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has interpreted the outcome of the recently concluded presidential election as a stark choice between a failed president and a former military dictator; saying president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated disaster and failure. Defending his support for ... Read More »
All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the Africa Union Commission, AUC, will open submission of entries for this year’s edition of the continental awards on Monday, May 18, 2015. Music professionals of African origin including artistes, songwriters, video directors, music/entertainment journalists and music producers resident on the continent or abroad are eligible to enter in any of the ... Read More »
The House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a motion seeking the removal of the tainted fuel subsidy regime by the incoming Gen. Muhammadu Buhari administration. The motion entitled: “The recurring crisis of fuel subsidy”, was sponsored by Hon. Sunday Karimi (Kogi/PDP) . Karimi called for a “permanent solution” to the lingering nationwide fuel scarcities while urging the Buhari administration to ... Read More »
The leadership of the Niger State House of Assembly has been impeached. Among those impeached were the Speaker, Barrister Adamu Usman; and his deputy, Hon. Abdulrahaman Bala Gambo from Borgu. The state has been in political turmoil since Tuesday morning with moves by 21 out of the state’s 27 lawmakers to impeach the Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu. More details in ... Read More »
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, said he still wants to buy English Premier League soccer team Arsenal even after he was rebuffed by its owners in 2010. Nigeria’s Dangote, an Arsenal fan worth $15.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, discussed buying a stake in the club five years ago before talks with the owners fell through, he said. ... Read More »
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