When Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji was elected in 2007, he was faced with a myriad of problems; ranging from poor infrastructure, social imbalance, godfatherism etc. In this interview with James Ume in Abia Government House, Umauahia, the Governor s...
It has remained the privilege of conquerors to write history. What’s more, the history of the planet has pretty much been written by men. This probably explains why women have often been relegated to the footnotes of this history - rightly or wro...
John Age, a middle-aged resident of Abuja, is a sad man. His brother, Martins, a mechanical engineer, lost his life in a ghastly motor accident along the ever busy Abuja-Kubwa road at night. Due to poor visibility, Martins rammed into a sharp obj...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the founder and chief executive of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Mr. Klaus Schwab that Nigerian economy was being restructured by reducing control in many sectors. Jonathan explained that the strategy...
There was confusion in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital following the arrest of a middle-aged man with materials suspected to be explosives by soldiers at 2 Amphibious Brigade of the Nigerian Army. The man, whose name was not...
The Police have denied claims by the co-founder of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Mr. Ali Tishau, that he had given useful information to the police on the spate of bombings that occurred in the country recently. The Force Public Relatio...
The runner-up in Thursday’s governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kogi State,Alhaji Abdulrazaq Isa Kutepa has called on the national secretariat of the party to do more in entrenching internal democracy, so as to strengthen de...
Peace and national security has been described as the forefront pillars of democracy for national development. This is part of goodwill message issued by the chairman of Kaduna North local government area of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ibrahim Usman (Sardauna...
Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins on Wednesday shot dead the immediate past chairman of Zamfara State Youth Empowerment Committee (YECO), Alhaji Isma’ila Zakariyya, along the Funtua-Gusau road. Zakariyya, a staunch supporter of former...
Participants and discussants at the 7th Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) holding in Benin City has attributed the bane of underdevelopment in the nation to what it calls a ‘structural’ defect in the Nigerian constitution. Speakers at ...
The dreaded Bayelsa State security patrol team known as ‘Famou Tamgbe’ was yesterday disbanded by the state police command following a rising protest against their activities and alleged cases of violation of police procedures, extra-judici...
Arsenal and Bolton will be meeting today at the Emirate Stadium, both sides would be battling to avoid being pushed to the bottom of the English Premier League (EPL). It has been a terrible start to the season for Arsene Wenger’s side, fol...
The National Examination Council, NECO, yesterday released the results of the June/July Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination with less than 30 per cent of the candidates scoring credit passes in English and Mathematics. The registrar ...
In his efforts to curtail the impact of the global financial crisis on the continent, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has launched the ‘Cross Border Initiative’ and called fo...
A former national secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Dr Usman Bugaje, has said that the trial of the former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, is a political witch-hunt by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which has a number of its o...