Onnoghen: Hoping justice is not delayed, denied
Justice Onnoghen The appointment of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice Of Nigeria (CJN) on acting capacity by President Muhammadu Buhari, has continued to elicit reactions in the polity. The...
View ArticleLagosians at risk of fatal dog attacks
•State Harbours About 2.5m Dogs • Five Cases, Three Deaths In Two Years Incidence of dog attacks and death from Rabies disease is on the rise in the country, especially in Lagos State, where the issue...
View ArticleOgun: 10-Lane road construction stirs disquiet
The 10-lane Abeokuta-Sagamu interchange road under construction<br />• It Is Misplaced Priority, Says Opposition • They Are Myopic, APC Responds The Ogun State government and the two major...
View ArticleWorries as proliferation of small arms, light weapons burgeons
When the late President Musa Yar’Adua, put in place a Presidential Amnesty Programme, as one of his administration’s efforts towards quelling the raging militancy that threatened to annihilate oil...
View ArticleCustom duty payment: Options for end users of imported vehicles
Imported Vehicles Policy Cannot Operate Retroactively The Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), recently issued a circular to the effect that all motorists in Nigeria should go...
View ArticleForestalling the next kidnapping
Arrested kidnap suspects Advisory To Parents, Students And Travellers As kidnapping has become so commonplace that practically anyone could fall prey, it is only prudent that individuals, as well as...
View ArticleJAMB’s unending challenges
Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Relations JAMB, made this known on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT.<br />The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board...
View ArticleNortheast rehabilitation: We are playing our roles, say Christian groups
Internally displaced persons at one of their camps PHOTO: NAN The emergence of Boko Haram insurgency and its activities in the north has led to loss of thousands of lives and destruction of...
View ArticleNDDC is being used as vehicle for political compensation - Sibe
Robinson Tombari Sibe Robinson Tombari Sibe, a policy analyst, says the inability to adhere to a guided, coordinated development plan has been the bane of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)....
View ArticleEdo in throes of abandoned, substandard NDDC projects
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State Like the other eight states that are beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Edo State has got its fair share of troubles from the...
View ArticleAkwa Ibom under yoke of NDDC’s abandoned projects
NDDC Managing Director, Mr. Nsima Ekere Considering its pre-eminent status as the highest oil-producing state in the country, Akwa Ibom State, many think would have been spared the menace of abandoned...
View ArticleABUAD teaching hospital and efforts to stem medical tourism
ABUAD Some Nigerians have described the magnificent high-tech teaching hospital just completed by Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), as a permanent solution to outward medical tourism. The N50b...
View ArticleThe Mugabe in most Of us - Part 2
Martins Oloja AS I was saying, we need to purge ourselves of the spirit of hypocrisy that will not allow us to see the logs in our eyes before seeing others’. And so with the log in our eyes, we cannot...
View ArticleClerics speak on importance of christmas and how christians should celebrate
Pastor Lazarus MuokaAs Nigerian Christians join their brethren globally to celebrate Christmas tomorrow, men of God are reminding them that the season is not about merriment alone, as the spiritual...
View ArticleOmo N’Oba sensitises Edo obas on evils of human trafficking
The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omo N, ‘Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolor, Oba Ewuare IIThe Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin has called on traditional rulers in the state to...
View Article‘Don’t make 2018 hellish like last year for Nigerians’
BuhariThe Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Egbu, Owerri North Local Council of Imo State, Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Okorafor, may have started in earnest to remind government at the three levels to make 2018...
View ArticlePolice rule out religious undertone, arrest 10 in attack on Kwara worshippers
Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah AhmedGovernor Abdulfatah Ahmed has condemned the new year eve attack on worshippers along Ibrahim Taiwo Road in Ilorin. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary,...
View ArticleFayose pleads with Ekiti residents to allow him choose successor
Ayodele FayoseGovernor Ayodele Fayose has pleaded with the people of Ekiti State to allow him pick his successor as done in Lagos to achieve continuity in governance and political stability. “We have...
View ArticleAnglican primate Okoh predicts optimistic 2018 for Nigerians
Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Primate of all Nigeria (Anglican Communion)The Primate of Nigeria, Anglican Communion and Bishop of Abuja, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has predicted that 2018 would be a year of...
View ArticleDon urges Enugu Assembly to enact anti-grazing law
University of NigeriaA lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Rev Fr. Emeka Ngwoke urged the Enugu State House of Assembly to enact a law to guard...
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