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Emerging Oshodi interchange patterned after Victoria terminus, London

More delivery specifications on the upcoming Oshodi Interchange have merged. The new development by the Lagos State Government is inspired by new idea on how best to manage the ever increasing volume of both vehicular and human traffic traversing the…

Tiv ethnic nationality open up on killings in Benue State, others

TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY PROFESSOR ZACHARYS ANGER GUNDU, CHAIRMAN,  TIV PROFESSIONALS GROUP (TPG), IN REACTION TO THE GENOCIDE AND PLANNED ETHNIC CLEANSING OF BENUE PEOPLE AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITIES BY FULANI MILITIA, HELD IN MAKURDI, 19th JANUARY,…

IBB, Afegbua, Buhari & 2019 Presidency: Dangerous Times ahead for Journalists!

BY Friday Olokor Background: Less than 24 hours after former Military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) through his age long media officer, Kassim Afegbua, issued a statement cautioning President Muhammadu Buhari to simply complete his current tenure in 2019 and…

2019: When retired Generals say don’t override national interest with selfishness…

Few days after former leader and General of the Nigerian Army, Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo had written President Muhammadu Buhari to bury his 2019 re-election bid, another tactical General and former leader, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has cautioned the President to…

Glo bankrolls unconventional fashionistas on CNN African Voices this weekend

The Glo-sponsored African Voices on Cable News Network (CNN) will this weekend explore Africa’s unconventional fashion, with a focus on three of the continent’s bourgeoning fashionistas. The thirty minutes programme which comes up on CNN at 11.30 a.m. on Friday…

Banks’ mute on Senate’s drive to investigate illegal charges, deductions

Barely 24 hours after the Senate resolved to conduct an investigation into the spate of illegal charges and deductions from accounts of their customers by commercial banks, many of the banks contacted for comments declined. One of the commercial banks’…

Ekwueme: My worry is how much of N1bn that may enter private pockets—Ezeife

Tireless Anambra State politician and former Governor of the state, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has raised a serious issue bordering on the federal government’s claims that it approved N1bilion, part of which had been spent, in readiness for the burial of…

Discussions on slave trade, repatriation, may not arise at Davos in 5 years—VP

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at Davos, Switzerland on Thursday said discussions bordering on issues like slave trade and repatriations may not reappear at World Economic Forum (WEF). When asked in an interview at the summit on Thursday to reply…

Just in: FG replies OBJ, mute on nepotism, poor understanding of internal politics

Barely 24 hours after former president Olusegun Obasanjo released his 13 paged letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, advising him to rest his 2019 re-election bid, the Federal Government on Wednesday replied the letter. The Minister of Information and National Orientation,…

Just in: Drop 2019 re-election bid if you wish Nigeria well, OBJ writes PMB

Less than few days after the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Umar Ghali Na’abba asked President Muhammadu Buhari to forget 2019 re-election bid, saying he lacks the physical and intellectual capacity to govern Nigeria, former President Olusegun…