Kayode Adelowokan The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, has called on Nigerian youths to be disciplined and shun all acts of corruption. Lamorde disclosed this during the inauguration of EFCC Integrity Club at Police Secondary School, Ita-Ogbolu, Akure, Ondo State. The EFCC Boss who was represented by the Deputy Director, Public […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Guaranty Trust Bank plc has announced the semi final fixtures of the prestigious GTBank – Lagos State Principals Cup competition. The event is scheduled to hold on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at Agege Stadium, Lagos. The Africa’s foremost financial institutions’ tournament which is in its 5th edition is an annual football competition […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has flayed the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, over his comment that stealing is not corruption. The ICPC boss recently in Abuja, while hosting a delegation from the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, Nta […]
…As New DG Promises to Train 2 Million Skilled Youths Agabus Pwanagba The outgoing Director General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Prof. Longmas Wapmuk said he is leaving the organisation with over N10 billion in its account. Wapmuk disclosed this during his handing over address to the newly appointed Director General of the Fund, […]
Sixteen out of the 20 Committees set up by the on-going National Conference to consider certain critical national issues, on Monday submitted their reports at the resumed plenary session of the Conference for consideration and adoption. While 14 of the Committees submitted their reports during the sitting as demanded by the Conference Chairman and […]
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has taken responsibility for Sunday’s attack on pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika, Rivers State. MEND, in a statement on Monday dismissed speculations that the attack was carried out by vandals, claiming that the facility was infiltrated by the group. […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the arrest and persistent harassment of its members in Bayelsa State by the PDP-led federal government, using the police as its arrowhead, in an attempt to clear the state of all the vestige of opposition ahead of the 2015 general elections. In a statement issued […]
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola on Monday carpets Christian bodies agitating for a Christian governor in Lagos next year. The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has demanded for a Christian governor to pilot the affairs of the state next year. Fashola, while speaking at an inter-faith conference on “Peace, Religious Harmony and Good […]
The Yoruba race have threatened to break away from Nigeria if the ongoing National Conference does not grant them regional autonomy, accusing the northern delegates of trying to frustrate the Yoruba by kicking against their demands. At a news conference on Monday in Lagos, Nigeria, the Yoruba, under the aegis of The Yoruba People of […]
The All Progressives Congress has won all the 44 chairmanship and 484 councillorship seats in Saturday’s council polls in Kano state. This is contained in a statement signed by Chairman of Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr. Sani Malumfashi, on Sunday in Kano. “The election has been largely successful and peaceful and APC won all […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Enugu state chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state has no moral justification to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to court over the disappearance of over 40 percent names of electorate from the voters’ register in the […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has denied rumour of romance with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This was contained in a statement released on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Abdulwahab Oba. Oba said such rumour or insinuation that he was romancing the PDP was baseless and untrue. He added […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan’s aborted trip to Chibok is symptomatic of his Administration’s policy flip-flop in the fight against the terror group Boko Haram, hence it did not come as a surprise to close watchers of the Administration. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos One person has been confirmed dead and eight others rescued as another boat capsized at Bonny Camp area of Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday night. The incident occurred around Bonny Camp when the boat said to be coming from Ilashe took a nose dive before emptying the passengers in the high […]
At least 10 people have been reportedly killed as another car bomb explodes at Sabon Gari in the ancient city of Kano in the series of bomb attack on northern Nigeria by the Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram. It was gathered that the explosion went off shortly before 9:30 pm on Sunday. Unofficial source says 10 […]
By Femi Fani-kayode “If they ever tell my story let them say I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the Winter wheat but these names will never die… let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses…let them say I lived in the time of Achilles”- the Iliad, Homer. […]
And like locusts on a mission to invade a farmland, the visibly malnourished and gaunt looking students, in their hundreds, besieged the entrance gate of the school in anxious expectation of their parents and relations. They giggled and hissed intermittently on sighting a stopover of any commercial vehicle at the adjacent bus-stop; on realising the […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo, akinadejum@aol.com Corruption: Synonyms – Sleaze, dishonesty, exploitation, bribery, fraud, venality, vice. Many of us think we know what corruption looks or is like – a state governor dipping his dirty fingers in the treasury and amassing ill-gotten wealth; an illicit deal carried out by politician; a government official or civil servant taking a […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In Nigeria tensions have continued to rise high since after hundreds of school girls were kidnapped by Islamist militants in Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, somewhere in Borno State North East corner of Nigeria. There is a widespread global demand on it already under the caption […]
-Uwa Eghomeka There appears to be a growing trend in this country. As I reflect on the last few weeks in our nation’s history, something about it seems hauntingly familiar, and it’s not merely the apparent unity of the Nigerian people in the face of the heinous kidnapping of our Chibok girls, or the involvement […]
