Isaac Samuel Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have drawn a battle line with loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that 2,532,062 Nigerians have pre-registered online in the first two weeks of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. According to…
By ETIM ETIM The death of a pregnant woman at Ikot Ekpene General Hospital due to the absence of a doctor has once again proven that without a team of…
Isaac Samuel President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extolled Vice President Kashim Shettima on his 59th birthday, saying his choice of him as deputy was deliberate and has proven right. Tinubu…
Comfort Isaac It was a chilly Wednesday evening early August at the University of Uyo Main Campus. As the rains attempted to give way for students and lecturers to go…
By Reuben Abati On Sunday, August 31, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (2011 – 2015), completed his maximum ten-year tenure (five years each per…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has declared that that he will not be contesting in the 2027 presidential election. The former Governor of Rivers State also…
Press Statement Ribadu: Federal government not paying bandits The attention of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has been drawn to comments made by the former Governor of…
Isaac Samuel Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused the Federal Government of making payments to bandits in a bid to stop them from killing Nigerians. The former governor…
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El Rufai has claimed that the Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, is paying huge amount of money to bandits to appease them. “I…
A former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, died early Sunday morning in Abuja hospital. The following is a statement issued by the police authorities a short while ago: The…
By Abdullahi Hamzi Farooq Kperogi is rightly acclaimed as a versatile academic and a titan of Nigerian media commentary. But, a closer examination of his record reveals significant flaws and…
By Tanimu Yakubu When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration dismantled Nigeria’s rigid foreign exchange regime in 2024, critics were quick to call it a currency collapse. The naira plunged to…
Isaac Samuel The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Saturday expressed optimism that the state of emergency declared in Rivers State would end on September 18.…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has knocked the African Democratic Congress (ADC) over claims that the number of pre-registrants recorded in Osun State during the first week…
By Farooq A. Kperogi In what irreverently humorous social media denizens are calling the battle between the “social media president” and the “Temu lawyer” (unflattering epithets to suggest that Peter…
Comfort Isaac The Nigerian Medical Association Akwa Ibom State chapter has threatened to call up members working in Ibom Multi-Specialist hospital and St Luke’s hospital in the state, if the…
By Marcel Okeke In the name of reforms, the Nigerian economy has been taken through all manner of ‘trial-and-error’ initiatives in the past two years of the President Bola Ahmed…
Isaac Samuel Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has proposed that Nigerians should directly elect the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Resident…
By ETIM ETIM Access Holdings on Thursday announced the appointment of Mr. Innocent Ike as the substantive Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective August 29, 2025, following…
Isaac Samuel The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that its 2027 presidential ticket remains open to all party members, despite broad endorsement of President Bola Ahmed for a second…
By ETIM ETIM I’m pleased that the ARISE Recreational & Leisure Park will open for business in December, according to Gov. Umo Eno who toured the facility yesterday. The park…
By Aniekan Umanah At exactly 4:05 p.m., the convoy of Governor Umo Eno rolled into the sprawling ARISE Resort , a bold tourism project rising from what was once a…
By ETIM ETIM Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written a new book, his seventh, titled, ‘’Nigeria: Past and Future’’, in which he examines Nigeria’s struggles with leadership and good governance.…
By Reuben Abati “Bros, how are you preparing for weekend?” “Which weekend? Today is Tuesday, you are asking me about weekend. Have you taken something today? Weekend? How?” “Just…
Isaac Samuel The South West has recorded the highest figures in the first week of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) online voter pre-registration exercise, accounting for more than 61…
Isaac Samuel The Peoples Democratic Party has resolved to zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the South while retaining the existing National Working Committee zoning formula for the November elective…
Comfort Isaac The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described the Federal Government’s Tertiary Institution Staff Support Loan Scheme, TISSLS, as yet another antics to divert attention from signing…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed reports suggesting he may not contest the 2027 presidential election, insisting he remains committed to the race and to rescuing Nigeria from what…
Enugu, the capital of the old Eastern Region, is a beehive of activities as former President Olusegun Obasanjo, firebrand South African politician, Julius Malema, and over 20,000 lawyers converge for…
By ETIM ETIM Gov. Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has announced that he has waded into the dispute between Ibom Air, the state-owned airline, and Ms Comfort Emmanson, a…
Isaac Samuel The House of Representatives has queried the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Meristem Wealth Management Limited, and NESI-Stabilization Strategy Limited (NESI-SSL) over the alleged non-utilisation of N59 billion…
Comfort Isaac Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno has inaugurated a committee to combat illegal mining activities in the state. He also directed that all lands procured by oil…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said 505,906 citizens have pre-registered online for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise within just five days. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood…
By ETIM ETIM I watched the Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency Town Square meeting on TV yesterday and was surprised to hear Gov. Umo Eno announce that some of his political appointees…
By Tony Onyima, Ph.D. When the ribbon was cut to unveil a gleaming new auditorium at Lagos State University (LASU), the following applause was more than just for the tall…
By Marcel Okeke Nearly sixty years ago, a book titled: “Planning without Facts: Lessons in Resource Allocation from Nigeria’s Development” was written by Wolfgang F. Stolper, with contributions from Nicholas…
By ETIM ETIM Gov. Umo Eno sent a simple birthday message to Obong Umana Okon Umana the other day to to celebrate his 66th birthday. But the main essence of…
Isaac Samuel A coalition of ex-militants under the aegis of the Niger Delta Volunteers has raised concerns over alleged neglect and poor treatment of host communities by Sterling Oil Exploration…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that Certificates of Return will be presented to winners of the just-concluded bye-elections across the country on Thursday, August 21,…
By Reuben Abati The by-elections held across the country last Saturday in 16 constituencies across 12 states, in terms of the organization, the process and outcomes would seem to…
By Yusuf Bangura Nyon, Switzerland 17 August, 2025 Bangura.ym@gmail.com Published in 2019, Banana Man is the last novel of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan literary scholar who spent most of his…
Isaac Samuel The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise recorded 26,255 hits on its online portal by 12:35 p.m. on the first…
A new report by Lagos-based forensic laboratory, Smart DNA, has revealed that one in four Nigerian men who underwent paternity testing in the last one year were not the biological…
By Bayo Onanuga We returned to Abuja on Saturday after a three-day working tour of Enugu and Ebonyi States as members of the National Communication Team, led by Alhaji Mohammed…
Isaac Samuel From gunshots and ballot box snatching in Ogun to large-scale arrests of suspected thugs in Kano and widespread voter apathy in Kogi, Anambra and Oyo, Saturday’s by-elections across…
Comfort Isaac Over 15,000 job seekers have submitted applications for 3000 vacant positions in the Akwa Ibom State civil service The state government in June announced plans to recruit 3000…
By Farooq A. Kperogi If the whispers from the smoke-filled inner rooms of northern political conclaves are to be believed, former President Goodluck Jonathan is being courted to return to…
By Marcel Okeke Nigeria recorded the highest quarterly capital importation of US$5.6 billion since 2020 during the first quarter 2025, according to the latest report of the National Bureau of…
Comfort Isaac The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Uyo Zonal Directorate has handed over the sum of One Hundred Million Naira (N100,000,000) draft to the Federal Ministry of Solid…
