Month: May 2013

The crisis rocking the  Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) over its continued participation in the merger arrangement  with other opposition political parties yesterday took a new dimension as the faction controlled...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), headed by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has presented the scorecard of its achievements since assumption of office to...

As part of its mid-year assessment of its elected officials,  the  National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Tuesday gave all the governors elected on the...

More than anything else, the bitter rivalry over the Nigerian Governors' Forum chairmanship, is an indication of what to come in the 2015 elections. With each passing day, only the...

A fortnight ago, the South-south and South-east geo-political zones of the Peoples Democratic Party met in Asaba, Delta State, to, according to them, review the state of the nation. The...

The Bauchi State chapters of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have called on security agents in the remaining northern states, where there...

The kidnapping of a former Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, despite his philanthropy, which has endeared him to the people, came as a surprise to many. During the...

With the convocation of national conventions by the major partners in the proposed opposition political parties’ merger, Onyebuchi Ezigbo writes that the battle has now shifted to the Independent National...

Before 1999, the Ijaw nation had no one whom they affectionately called the governor-general. Not because the Ijaws, Nigeria’s fourth largest ethnic group spread over a wide swath of the...

The death toll of policemen killed by members of the Ombatse cult in Nasarawa State has climbed to 72 following the discovery of the bodies of 25 policemen that had...