…Describes Planned National CONFAB as “Ill-Timed” By Ruth Bamidele, Lagos The chairman of the NBA Anti-Corruption Commission, Mallam Yusuf Ali, (SAN) has stated that the 5 governors of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and members of the House of Representatives who recently defected to the opposition party, All Progressive Congress (APC) can take their mandates […]
Mr. Rumundaka Wonodi, is the Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc. He told KAYODE ADELOWOKAN, in this interview about the readiness of the commission to begin transitional electricity market whenever it start and some of the progress that has come into the country’s power sector after it privatization. Excerpt; Has there been provision […]
Hard-line academic and stoic nationalist, Comrade Adewole Babarinde Ajibola (also known as Baba Omojola) has been laid to rest. His memories, however, will not go unsung, people say. The widow of the late socialist and human rights fighter, Dr. (Mrs.) Yewande Ajibola, shared some untold stories in this interview with KAYODE ADELOWOKAN. Excerpt; It is […]
Agabus Pwanagba A Chairmanship candidate under the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, Hon. Emmanuel Danboyi Jugul, in the forthcoming Local Government Elections in the State, has decried the shifting of the election date from 7th, December, 2013 to 21st, December, 2013, describing it as a […]
Mrs. Josephine Oluseyi Williams, former Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Finance is now the 17th Head of Service of the Lagos State Public Service. Williams, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), holds a Bachelor of Science (B.SC Hons) degree in Accounting from the prestigious University of Lagos, Akoka and a […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos A former member of the House of Representative and former Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly between 1999-2003, Hon. George Daika, says the crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party are surmountable and insisted that the group of seven anti-Tukur Governors can’t remove the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. He disclosed […]
By Eric Ojo, Pretoria Nigerian-born renowned economist and human development expert, Prof. Melvin Ayogu, has blamed the growing resentment and antagonism against Nigerians living in South Africa on deeply entrenched stereotypes, prejudice and jealousy. Prof. Ayogu said the not-too-friendly disposition of South Africans towards Nigerians and other immigrants could be attributed to mainly prejudice because the natives […]
By Eric Ojo Nigerians living in South Africa and other parts of the world are very resilient, hard working, resourceful and self-reliant, a renowned Nigerian-born medical practitioner and public health expert, Dr. Edward Olalekan Olusola has said. Dr. Olusola noted that the resilience, determination and resourcefulness coupled with an uncommon hunger for success of the […]
Former National Chairman of the defunct All Nigeria People’s Party and an elder of the All Progressive Congress, Dr Ogbonaya Onu has described the fourteen years of federal administration of the People’s Democratic Party as. a monumental failure to be rejected by Nigerians in 2015. Speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, the former Governor of old Abia state […]
Comrade Sunny Oghale Ofehe is a Nigerian born social crusader living in The Netherlands. In wake of the Military clampdown on Pro-democracy activists who were protesting the annulment of the election, and the execution of a renowned author, playwright and a Human Rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and others popularly known as the Ogoni Nine(9), Comrade Ofehe fled Nigeria for […]