Relatively new on the nation’s political landscape, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC has been in the eye of the storm in recent weeks. In this report, Gabriel EWEPU, examines the issues of contention amongst members of the party. The Cong...
In what smacks of “Economic Imperialism”, Chinese investors, with over 200 companies at their disposal at the famous Kantin Kwari Market, have displaced local investors who have been in control of the market from time immemorial. Sudd...
A German engineer, Mr. Raupach Fritz Edgar, kidnapped in the northern city of Kano about five months ago has been killed in a failed rescue attempt. The late German national was said to have been kidnapped in Kano on 24th January, four days after the c...
Some of the most prominent northerners stormed the seat of the federal government last night to present a list of demands to President Goodluck Jonathan. Under the umbrella of the Northern Elders Forum, the visitors demanded implementation of recommend...
Of the 5,172,979 customers captured in the records of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), only 2,893,701 or 55.94 per cent are metered. Out of the number only 2,434,541 or 8.42 per cent of the total households in Nigeria are currently bein...
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison by the International Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Taylor, 64, was convicted in April of war crimes and crimes against humanity for aiding and abet...
Global Witness yesterday stated that explanations made by Shell and ENI about payments made for a controversial oil deal in Nigeria are no longer sufficient, but rather, they must immediately come clean with more information about the deal. The call co...
The National Teachers Institute (NTI) has described as “unfounded” the accusation levelled against it which claimed that the institute short-changed teachers by paying them N2, 500 each, instead of the budgeted N14, 000. The teachers, under...
Forty persons have died in a communal clash between Ntan Obu-Ukpe in Odukpani local government area of Cross River and Ikpanya Community in Ibiono Ibom local government area of Akwa Ibom. Similarly, 40 persons, including women, mobile policemen and chi...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has decried the verbal attacks on Gen. Muhammadu Buhari by the presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for no other reason than his timely warning against election rigging in 2015. In a statement issued in...
A man suspected to be the operations commander of the Boko Haram sect was yesterday arrested by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano. Suleiman Mohammed, who hails from Ogbomosho in Oyo State, believed to have masterminded several deadly attacks in Kano, ...
Nigeria’s controversial sovereign wealth fund is set to go into operation in the next few months, finance minister Dr. NgoziOkonjo-Iweala said yesterday in Ethiopia. Governors of the 36 states are however still opposed to the use of the country&r...
The national secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Alhaji Buba Galadima, has blamed the inability of President Goodluck Jonathan to perform on his penchant for appointing persons into strategic government positions based on tribalism. ...
Five months into the declaration of a state of emergency in 15 LGAs spread in four states of the federation, the move has failed to yield the expected results, as residents of the affected areas groan under strict military direction and untold economic...
Mohammad Rabi’u Rikadawa, aka Dila, is one of the big names in Kannywood. In this exclusive chat with AL-AMIN CIROMA, the movie star spoke on many issues bordering on the Nigerian entertainment industry in general. Excerpts: What is your account ...