by Staff Writer The merger talks between opposition political parties Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) look to be nearing the final stages of negotiations. Late last night, Nasir El-Rufai of the CPC tweeted: Where CPC office is not easily located, join the ACN as we are likely to merge with this and... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Right from the days when Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was president, many Nigerians have been saying it that GDP growth without decrease in poverty level is a fallacy. Well, finally, the former president has accepted that theory, five years after he left office. He said on Thursday at the 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM)... Read More
by Femi Adesina He’s built like a boxer, a wrestler or a weightlifter. And why wouldn’t he be? He works out in a gymnasium daily, and has hiking and mountain climbing as enduring passions. He has subdued Mount Kilimanjaro, and now has his sights set on Mount Everest as soon as the weather permits. Welcome... Read More
Factory78tv recently had a chat with Badboy Entertainment music producer and Trey Songz tour drummer/music director Antwan “Amadeus” Thompson. The talented producer flew into the UK with American R’N’B superstar, Trey Songz to perform at the Hackney Weekend hosted by The BBC. He made time during his tight schedule to speak to F78tv’s Adesope about all things music. In this interview... Read More
by Henry Boyo Nigerians may laugh and cry at the same time at the unfolding bribery giving-taking drama involving the oil magnate, Femi Otedola, on the one hand and the consummate lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, on the other. The contest is presumably about integrity; others would say it is all about money, but for now, it... Read More
by Japheth Omojuwa Patriotism is like free sex, it is indeed expensive, hence patriotism is neither in the real sense free and it is in fact not cheap The most expensive sex is free sex – Woody Allen Everyone remembers the words of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya The House of Representatives has directed Dana Air to pay at least the 30 percent compensation that was supposed to occur within 30 days of the crash, in a resolution yesterday. In a motion sponsored by Yakub Abiodun, the airline was given till next Tuesday to comply with the directive. An excerpt from... Read More
by Afe Babalola (SAN) On May 29 2012, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan announced the decision of the Federal Government of Nigeria to rename the University of Lagos after the acclaimed winner of the June 12 1993 presidential election, Bashorun M.K.O Abiola. The university, according to the President is now to be known as “Moshood... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola The Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola story continues to unfold. On Thursday, Farouk Lawan appeared before the House of Representatives Ethics Committee chaired by Hon. Gambo Musa, which was mandated by the House to investigate the $620,000 bribery allegation. However, in a blow to transparency, the committee decided to conduct its session... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo We wish these were an aberration in Nigerian politics, but what Honourable Farouk Lawan told the House of Representatives yesterday is usual fare. Punch today reports details of the testimonies of the suspended chairman of the House Committee on Monitoring of Subsidy Regime. Mr. Lawan admitted taking “money” from oil chief Femi... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo First, they snubbed the House of Representatives committee that is investigating oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. Now, yesterday, naval chiefs tell the nation that the MT Vanessa, arrested by the Nigerian Navy last week did not in fact have any crude and, you know, the media was blowing the matter out... Read More
by Seyi Lawal Many people in Nigeria might believe our laws are not good enough and up to international standards but recently, Yahoo released a list of the World’s strangest laws and Governor Fashola who was rumoured to have ordered Lagosians not to wear flip flop outside their homes doesn’t sound that absurd after all. See... Read More
by Chi Ibe BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has announced that it will delay the launch of new phones deemed critical to the company’s survival and revealed its business is crumbling faster than thought. It was shocking news to BB fans today when the Canadian company posted results for its latest quarter that were worse... Read More
by Chi Ibe Every month, Nigeria loses $1bn or more to oil theft by criminal networks whose activities have expanded rapidly under the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan, Businessday reports. Bunkering expanded rapidly when local gangs in the Niger Delta took up arms in the late 1990s to try to force the federal government to give more oil revenue... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya Vision 2020 is still the goal line which the president has drawn for accomplishments with regards to the country. With the stagnant power supply unable to meet the growing needs of consumers and manufacturers in the country, the presidency sought to reassure producers that the plan for power supply in the country is headed... Read More
by Adeniyi Abdul Ah, Sarah Palin; where do we begin? From her statements about being able to see Russia from her backyard to her being unable to state the name of a single newspaper during a 2008 CBS News interview with Katie Couric, she has become a global legend. She’s also an American politician. So... Read More
Earlier today the Supreme Court in a narrow 5-4 ruling upheld the heathcare law put in place by President Obama. The law affects how Americans get health care, and also provides new court guidelines on federal power. The most controversial part of the ruling is the fact the court upheld that the individual mandate requiring... Read More
Maybe I’ll just keep observing from a neutral angle. Maybe a prostitute really has genuine reasons, maybe marriages usually get sour after a while. Maybe I’ll never know. For a very long time now I have had questions. Questions about general and/or random acts of people. Perhaps not totally random, but acts that I have... Read More
by Rotimi Fawole I was convinced that many would find the topic of logic and valid arguments boring. It has come as quite a surprise that the reverse is the case and I’ve been asked by quite a few people to do a full post on fallacies. Apologies, however, if this turns out to be a snooze-inducer. You can... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya Oil spills have devastated the once-vibrant wetlands in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, and little has been done to clear up the spills and return the ecosystem to its Natural state. US-based Council of Ogoni Professionals International hopes that a meeting with a committee from the United States’ House of Representatives could help restore... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya Voicing his distrust of the opposition parties in Nigeria, Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson warned Nigerians about potentially destructive activities of the opposition parties in the country, worrying that they may want to tear the country apart. Dickson made his remarks while attending a meeting of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic... Read More
by Tolu Orekoya The beginning of the rainy season usually hits subsistence farmers hardest: Their crops from the previous year are usually close to running out or are finished altogether, and their new crops will not be ready for months. In the meantime, many are too poor to buy enough food to feed their families, malnutrition is... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang On Wednesday night, the first finalist of the ongoing European Championships was decided. A tight Iberian derby by all accounts, we did not witness the best of football. Despite the fact that we had an incredible number of world-class players in the two teams, the match was eventually decided via penalty kicks, after a goalless... Read More
by Abimbola Adelakun The presidential media chat on Sunday was, not unexpectedly, pedestrian, to put it mildly. But interestingly, the President spoke on, among other things, social media and, the penchant by Nigerians to use the same to criticise his government. I counted this positive – he is not unaware of Nigerians’ disaffection towards his... Read More
by Mohammed Zagga ONCE again, the House of Representatives is in the storm of another bribery scandal, coming two months after the suspension of the Committee on Capital Markets, led by Herman Hembe. In the latest scandal, the Chairman of the ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe, Malam Faruk Lawan, was allegedly caught on video receiving a $620,000... Read More
By Muhammad Sageer Whatever catastrophe we are going through in this country is the brainchild of ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo is the genesis of almost Nigerian problem. When Obasanjo first came to power in 1999, many Nigerians had high hopes but unfortunately we never knew he came to destroy us. We had a tyrant in democracy toga.... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo For the third year in a row, The Future Awards, referred to by the World Bank as ‘The Nobel Prize for Young Africans’, is searching for the most brilliant young minds in Science, in addition to its yearly search for the brightest minds in Technology, an official release by the awards central... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo David Erhabor, the man lucky to marry a former Edo State commissioner, Florence Igbinigie-Erhabor, told a Benin High Court on Wednesday that his wife of more than a decade (15 years to be exact) once came home without putting on pant. Bottom line: she’s a bladdy cheat. This is how Punch reports... Read More
It is also not safe for our leader to ply our unsafe roads. If a former minister of works can die from an accident on a road he neglected as minister, the President is certainly not immune. Not many people will remember Young Jeezy in 20 years; but I suspect his song “My President” will... Read More