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Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose has said most of the protests against former President Goodluck Jonathan were sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Fayose said this in response to a backlash by the ‘Enough is Enough’ group after he declared his support for its protest in collaboration with... Read More
Former Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Turaki has said the economic situation of the country would have been better under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Turaki said this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja. He noted that things would have been better if ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was re-elected into office in 2015. He said: “I’m... Read More
Former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has said former President Goodluck Jonathan and governor Nyesom Wike frustrated attempts by his administration to take possession of the two helicopters seized by the Nigerian Customs and handed over to the Nigerian Air Force. Wike had claim that the choppers were bought by Amaechi’s administration. In a... Read More
by Reno Omokri I used to think that the creators of the Mavrodi Mondial Movement, aka MMM, were smart people going by the fact that they were able to come up with such a brilliant Ponzi scheme that enabled them make off with people’s money as the ultimate pen robbers, but I have since been... Read More
Elder statesman Balarabe Musa says President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the capacity to deal with the situation in Nigeria. Musa, who stated this in an interview with The Vanguard said Buhari is just like his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan. He said, “The President is just like his predecessor. I ask you what is the remarkable difference between... Read More
Namadi Sambo has never been the typical always-on-the-scene-type of Nigerian politician. It is a fact that not many Nigerians can lay claims to knowing much about him until he was appointed Vice-President by former President, Goodluck Jonathan in 2010. Namadi Mohammed Sambo started out his career as an Architect after bagging an Architecture degree from... Read More
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Anti-Corruption, Environment and Habitat to probe the N9.2billion “Clean Stove for Rural Women Scheme” initiated by the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan. A motioned filed by Abiodun Faleke (APC, Lagos) during Tuesday’s plenary was unanimously adopted by members. The lawmaker said the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had ordered... Read More
A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Gooluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, has said he was “tormented” by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Dudafa, who stated this on Monday at the Federal High Court, Lagos said operatives of the anti-graft agency tried all within their means to pressure him to... Read More
Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose has said the abduction of over 250 schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno was a ruse orchestrated to put former president, Goodluck Jonathan in bad light. Fayose, a staunch critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration stated this during an interview on Channels Television on Sunday, Fayose said, “Chibok girls... Read More
by Mark Amaza On Friday January 20th, there was a change in the baton of leadership in the United States of America, the world’s largest economy and undoubtedly, its most powerful country as well. While so much has been written about what a Trump administration might mean for global politics and Africa in particular, it... Read More
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You cannot even lie that this has not crossed your mind. *** March 28th, 2015: Imagine if you had rejected all of Muhammadu Buhari’s promise of Change and voted for transformation instead. Basically one and the same message except that the one got Buhari the honour of being transformed from “General” to “President” while the other... Read More
Noticed that the number of homosexual men and women married to heterosexual partners getting outed is sky-rocketing? Well, we have. From rumours to full on exposes complete with pictorial receipts, more and more Nigerian down low (DL) men and women are getting publicly shamed. Maybe social media has made over-sharing easier, or our generation feels... Read More
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday told immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan to be ready when called upon to be of service to the world. Obasanjo, who stated this on Friday in Ibogun, his hometown when Jonathan paid him a visit said the former president is now wiser after leaving office. “When leaders come, they... Read More
These are the top five stories that drove conversations today. 1. Jammeh asks ECOWAS to extend noon deadline Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh has asked ECOWAS for an extension of the deadline given to him to vacate office from noon to 4 pm local time. 2. Donald Trump sworn in as 45th U.S. president Donald J.... Read More
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday visited ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo at his ancestral home in Ibogun, Ogun. Also present at the meeting which went into a closed-door session was former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
by Mark Amaza When Gambians went to the polls early December 2016 to choose between their long-time leader Yahya Jammeh and opposition candidate Adama Barrow, the whole world had already concluded that Jammeh was going to use every trick in the playbook to extend his 22-year rule in the small West African nation. After all,... Read More
Ever since the abduction of 287 schoolgirls from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok in April 2014, the group Bring Back Our Girls has emerged as a pressure group to sustain pressure on the Federal Government to not relent in efforts to rescue the girls. The constant embarrassment they caused the administration of former President Goodluck... Read More
These are the top five stories that drove conversations today. 1. How DSS killed 9 people who visited me at Kuje prison – Kanu IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu on Tuesday accused the DSS of killing nine persons who visited him at the Kuje prison, Abuja. 2. DSS arrests 4 Boko Haram members in Lagos The DSS have... Read More
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted allegations that he received kickbacks from the $1.3 billion Malabu Oil transaction during his tenure. Jonathan in a statement by his spokesperson, Ikechukwu Eze on Tuesday said he had no secret meeting with parties involved in the deal. He also denied sending any Abubakar Aliyu to receive kickbacks on... Read More
These are the top five stories you should monitor today. I wired $120,000 to the UK for Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia -Witness Ademola Oshodi, a staff of Diamond Bank Plc on Monday told a Lagos State High Court that he helped Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia wire $120,000 to a company named Silver Steps Incorporated in the United Kingdom. 2. Nothing... Read More
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke have been named by Italian prosecutors among those who allegedly received kickbacks in the $1.3bn Malabu oil block deal. The deal involves two oil giants ENI and Royal Dutch Shell. In documents filed by Italian prosecutors last month in Milan, they claimed that Jonathan... Read More
Today makes it 1,000 days since 276 girls preparing to write their final exam were abducted from the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok town of Borno State by the Boko Haram terrorist group. The abduction marked a turning point in the five-year war against the terrorist organization, and the silence and poor handling of... Read More
Welcome to 2017 and in a few months, the second year of President Buhari’s tenure as president will be gone. Save for a handful of projects and state governors who have impressed. The majority of the promises on which Buhari sailed to power have remained that, promises. The economy in the throes of Nigeria’s biggest... Read More
The Nigerian government doesn’t seem to have a lot of support on the matter of the Jonathan raid Most of our Insiders believe that the style and approach by the police in their raid on the said former first lady’s house was questionable. The raid on the former first lady’s house by the Nigerian police... Read More
by Chi Ibe For the first time in a very long while, the conversation on TwitterNG has ceased to be monopolized and dominated by tweeps with thousands of followers who believe they reserve the rights to set the pace on what is important and what is not. 2016 has seen the coming to fore of... Read More
Somebody gag them, they need to shut it. Honestly… 10. “Don’t ask me about the house of rep ordering Peugeot 305 or 508 when the special assistants (SA) and personal assistants (PAs) of the president and ministers are driving Land Cruiser and Lexus jeeps. You have not even interviewed councillors and state house of assembly... Read More
Wearing multiple hats and playing diverse roles may be difficult to many, but not for the Emir of Kano. Coming from a family of rulers, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (as he then was) has always been in and around royalty. Being the grandson of the 11th Emir of Kano and son of Muhammad Lamido Sanusi, a... Read More
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, says Nigeria will thrive in 2017. Jonathan, who said this in his goodwill message to celebrate Christmas urged all Nigerians to “treasure our common brotherhood”. He said, “The essential message of Christmas is that Christ came to earth to live and die for the purpose of reconciling us to God. “Being recipients... Read More
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