‘Amotekun’ initiative is the paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for to combat Nigeria’s growing insecurity challenge

Imagine a group of security personnel made up of people who live in our neighborhood or have a comprehensive understanding of its’ security challenges getting maximally equipped, trained and charged with curbing any form of insecurity plaguing our communities. This is the base of what the newly launched ‘Amotekun’ would revolve around. Coming after months... Read More

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Amotekun, Governors' Forum, state police

July 20, 2017

Governors Forum set up committee for State Police

The Governors Forum last night set up a six man committee to ascertain the possibility of state police in the country. The committee which has a representative from the six geo-political zones of the country was mandated to come up with the best way of policing the country in view of the myriads of security... Read More

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July 8, 2017

The Big 10: These are the stories that drove conversation this week

These are the top ten stories that drove conversation this week. 1. Nnamdi Kanu A Facebook user went on social media to compare the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu with Jesus Christ and set the internet on fire. 2. Biafra While the South East governors insist on ‘One Nigeria’, a former militant and leader of Niger... Read More

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February 18, 2017

Dele Momodu: President Buhari and his London visitors

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me warn quickly that a new circus has come to town and there is a theatre of the absurd ongoing in the city of London. The patrons are very important personalities from Nigeria who have turned the supposed illness of our dear President Muhammadu Buhari into a stage play.... Read More

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February 18, 2016

PDP governors: ‘We have confidence in Sheriff’ | Jonathan’s ministers: ‘Expect a mass exodus’

The Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors Forum, on Wednesday, have expressed full confidence in the new National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff. The forum made this known in a statement released by the Coordinator, Osaro Onaiwu. The statement said that after careful deliberation and consideration, the choice of Sheriff, who is an ex governor... Read More

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February 5, 2016

Why Nigerians need to seriously pray for the APC and its chairman – PDP

Nigerians have been urged to pray for the All Progressives Congress and its chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, for allegedly calling for the probe of Supreme Court justices over the recent governorship election rulings. According to the Governors’ Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party, the ruling party has lost sight of the big picture, and is now... Read More

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June 22, 2015

Fayose reportedly rejects Mimiko as PDP Governors’ Forum chairman

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has rejected Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko as chairman of the Governors’ Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party, The Nation reports. Mimiko was elected chairman of the Forum last week by six of the party’s 13 governors and two deputy governors, in a meeting in Abuja. Fayose is believed to be averse to... Read More

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June 17, 2015

Mimiko elected chairman of PDP governors forum

Olusegun Mimiko, has been elected the Chairman of the Governors Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party. Mimiko, the governor of Ondo state, returned to the PDP from Labour Party in October 2014. Speaking with Journalists shortly after his emergence, Mimiko said: “We will do everything that we can do to engage the presidency and APC... Read More

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December 26, 2013

Opinion: The unlucky part of Goodluck Jonathan

by Usman Rabiu When a predecessor acts like a jezebel by handing over an almost sinking ship to you as a captain, you assume the devil by sinking the ship completely. Our solution lies in simply rising above the strongholds of problems created by a predecessor as a leader, and justifying their lack of foresight... Read More

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December 17, 2013

Theophilus Ilevbare: For Govs. Aliyu and Lamido, it is time to count their gains

by Theophilus Ilevbare There is a pitfall in this much publicised defection. The merging of G-5 with the progressives should not be mistaken to mean the merging of their large followership base, because “They are not your employees, therefore, some of your supporters might stay” as President Jonathan rightly opined. Same applies to their respective... Read More

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December 8, 2013

Chris Okotie: 2015 – The truth about G-7 rebel governors

by Chris Okotie It then stands to reason that if the APC, just for the sake of getting strong members to win the Presidential election, becomes a business conglomerate like the PDP, how can it fight corruption or prosecute its progressive agenda? The mist on the road to the 2015 general elections is beginning to... Read More

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November 26, 2013

Opinion: Ahmed Gulak’s assault on ethics and reason

by Adeolu Ademoyo Friends, what Mr. Gulak has just said is a serious matter. It has grave impact on our children. Parents must not stand reason on its head before their children the way Mr. Gulak has just done, otherwise we morally lose these children. And to be honest we are losing them. Is... Read More

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September 15, 2013

Opinion: The PDP will never be the same again

by Bisi Lawrence But like those foot soldiers, some of whom actually knew very little about the formation of the party, there was the Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who was an old stager, but whose faith in the continued presidency of the incumbent had put his own aspirations in tandem with that... Read More

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August 25, 2013

Tonnie Iredia: 2015 – Who says Nigeria cannot break?

by Tonnie Iredia Although President Jonathan has said several times that it is premature and distractive to get involved in electioneering until next year, the nation is already broken into 2 irreconcilable groupings concerning his role in 2015 elections… A few years back, the Americans were reported to have predicted that Nigeria may not survive... Read More

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August 1, 2013

Opinion: The imperatives of conducting free and fair polls in 2015

by Ado Umar Abubakar Imagine the recent debacle in Rivers State involving the police, which followed hard on the heels of the “16-is-greater-than-19” election that produced Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum recognized by President Goodluck Jonathan The standard of democratic practice in any nation can be... Read More

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February 3, 2013

GEJ and First Lady are not having a divorce… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt

by Stanley Azuakola GEJ And First Lady Not Having A Divorce Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, has denied reports that President Jonathan and his wife are about to get a divorce. On his new website, Abati blasted Nigeria’s ‘collective children of envy’ for being jealous of the patient bond between the president and the first lady,... Read More

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