Month: January 2018

RECENTLY, Ralph Uwazurike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), called for a one day sit-at-home. I was deeply disturbed that people, especially in Onitsha, heeded his call. But then, the masses barely think, and consequently, are susceptible to political manipulation No wonder, Adolf Hitler once told […]

Pastor Chris Okafor, the General Overseer of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Ministry is saying that he had predicted the recent death of Patience Jonathan’s foster mother. The clergyman says that he had said that there would be death in the President’s household. The death was meant to take away someone close to them mysteriously. […]

Mr Babatunde Fashola, Lagos State governor, yesterday launched the new electronic ticketing (e-ticket) system for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) buses under the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) to bring world best practice in transportation to the state. Fashola who launched the e-ticket system, first of its kind in the country at the BRT CMS […]

Residents of Nekede, Eziobodo and Ihiagwa communities in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State have threatened to go naked in protest over the terrible condition of roads in the area. The aggrieved villagers, who were mostly women, said they would take to the street to protest what they called government’s indifference to the plight of […]

A prominent Igbo son in Lagos this afternoon threw his weight behind the deportation of his kinsmen and women by the Lagos State Government. Engineer Joe Igbokwe, a radical newspaper publisher and politician from Nnewi in Anambra State, launched a robust defence of the action in an article which he published on his Facebook page. […]

THE Federal Government on Tuesday insisted on retaliatory action  against  British citizens if their government  went ahead  with  its plan to impose a £3, 000  visa bond on visitors from Nigeria and five other Commonwealth countries. It expressed displeasure that Downing Street, which had already  set November as the discriminatory policy’s commencement time, had not […]

INEC confirmed the registration on Wednesday. The Independent National Electoral Commission has registered the All Progressives Congress, APC. This was stated by the Secretary to INEC, Abdullahi Kaugama, in a statement on Wednesday.   The statement said: “The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the application by three political parties – the Action Congress of […]

The administrative office of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, located inside the ever busy Benin City airport was this morning shut down by the Edo Board of Internal Revenue (BIR), over alleged unremitted N15 million Pay As You Earn (PAYE) deductible tax from staff salary. Hundreds of air passengers who were to travel […]

According to reports from an Italian media, Thirty-one migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during an attempted crossing to Italy as told by survivors who managed to complete the journey.   A dinghy carrying 53 migrants capsized on Friday evening, and witnesses said 31 of those who had been thrown off […]

The Federal Government has approved 100 hectares of land for the permanent site of the proposed Anglican University, Abuja. The Bishop of Kubwa Diocese, Duke Akamisoko, stated this in an interview with Newsmen during the 2nd Session of the Second Synod held at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Nyanya in Abuja. Akamisoko also assured that any […]