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As you count down to the February General Elections, we show you what to read and what to skip today. ...
Today’s Daily Brief: IBB’s son joins Niger gov race, Presidential taskforce chairman joins Rivers gov race, PDP govs meeting with Mu’azu ends in deadlock, and more
We deliver your news brief for Friday, October 17, 2014. Mohammed Babangida, son of former military President, Gen. Ibrahim ...
Femi Falana: The President cannot sack governors
by Femi Falana, SAN It is high time the attention of Nigerians are drawn to Sections 180,188 and 189 of ...
Simon Kolawole: Governors and their juicy pensions
by Simon Kolawole The first is that governors and their deputies are, without any questions, enjoying too much at our ...
Olusegun Adeniyi: Clark, Adoke and Presidential powers
by Olusegun Adeniyi So for Clark and fellow travellers to suggest that President Jonathan can suspend three governors from office ...
2 governors will die before 2015 ends – Soul E prophesies again
by Zara Mustapha It appears singer, Soul E is not backing down anytime soon on his new vocation of supernaturally ...
Who rocked the ‘galala’ dance better, Fashola or Peter Obi? (LOOK)
by Adeola Balogun The recent ‘deportation’ from Lagos of some citizens of Anambra ruffled many feathers around the country especially ...
Bukola Saraki: Jonathan must prove to Nigerians he can defeat Boko Haram
by Bukola Saraki The first, leadership, lies squarely in the hands of the President. President Jonathan says the situation will ...
Opinion: The wider implications of Nigeria’s anti-gay law
by Jaye Gaskia But there are even much wider implications for this law. It means that dissidents, who are involved ...
Tunde ‘Leye: The anti-Gay Law is popular, yet wrong
by Tunde Leye I do not agree with being gay. I have been approached by men for romantic dalliances thrice ...
It gets worse: Another 2,300 PDP members decamp to APC in Kaduna
by Akintomiwa Agbaje The list of ‘defectors’ never stops this time with a record breaking exodus again in Kaduna involving ...
Opinion: End game for the Jonathan Presidency
by Lekan Sote After denying some of the allegations, disclosing some positive actions he has taken, and spattered some of ...
Opinion: Neither the PDP nor the APC are Nigeria’s problem
by Enenim Ubon APC,PDP or any other party is NOT Nigeria’s problem, the individuals therein are. We should “look(well) before ...
REPORT: APC set to woo Obasanjo today
by Akintomiwa Agbaje The All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to woo the amiable former Head of State today to ...
PDP begs Tambuwal to sack 37 defecting House of Reps members
The Peoples Democratic Party has appealed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to help sack the 37 members of ...
Governors gather support for plan to impeach Jonathan
by ‘Jola Sotubo The movement for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan has begun to gain momentum as some governors ...
Defecting governors maintain stance, turndown president’s overtures
by Akintomiwa Agbaje Sokoto State governor, Governor Aliyu Wamakko has insisted that his defection along with the five other governors from ...
PDP crisis: Bamanga Tukur may be shown the way out
It has emerged that the embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur may be on ...
G5 Governors: Tambuwal meets with Buhari, Tinubu, others
by Adeola Balogun Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday had a meeting with the governors who crossed ...
Hakeem Baba-Ahmad: ASUU strike – Mr. President, please look closely, you have no last card to play
by Hakeem Baba-Ahmad There is evidence around that President Goodluck Jonathan is toughing up his mien. He is not heeding ...
Amanze Obi: At last, the G-7 governors step out
by Amanze Obi No doubt, the Baraje group within the PDP tried its hands on relevance outside the umbrella of ...
Reps move to legalize foreign accounts for president, govs, others
by Adeola Balogun The Nigerian House of Representatives is preparing to pass a law which will allow the president, the ...
“Completely false” – Okonjo-Iweala responds to “missing N50bn Excess Crude” money (TWEET)
by Chi Ibe Yesterday, Governor Rotimi Amaechi was on fire at the Governor’s Forum Retreat in Sokoto. With all guns ...
3 pastors, 3 governors: See the new list of top 10 private jet owners in Nigeria
by Chi Ibe The good guys at Encomium have put up their list of the ‘top 10 private jet owners ...
Opinion: Death of Festus Iyayi- When does the sacrifice to the Nigerian Government end?
by Ogaga Ifowodo Given the immediate circumstances of this tragic event, I call on the Kogi State Attorney-General to bring ...
Opinion: Why the APC should be wary of G-7 governors
by Ado Umar Muhammed As for the dialogue with the president, I wonder why the governors are still unable to ...
Dimgba Igwe: Stella Oduah should spare GEJ and tender her resignation
by Dimgba Igwe In the face of the prevailing national outrage, can Ms Oduah save Jonathan the misery of sacking ...
Opinion: A critical assessment of the EFCC journey so far
by Segun Dada Ever since, the corruption trials have not gone beyond the plea stage, some for as long as ...
Opinion: The right to contest – GEJ and the Constitution
by Babayola Toungo If Goodluck Jonathan and his horde of Gulaks have honour (though I doubt they have) he shouldn’t ...
Opinion: The totalitarian tendencies of my president
by Olu W. Onemola On the flip side, what will it mean for us if our President does not get ...
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