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Some people think the North is not good for Nigeria – Maitama Sule

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

By Bilesanmi Olalekan Alhaji Maitama Sule, an elder statesman, was Nigeria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations during the second republic. Before then, as the Minister of Mines and Power in the first republic, the oil portfolio was under his ministry. While at the UN, Sule chaired the committee which sought to end apartheid in the […]

Rufai: Eagles pulled down Enyeama

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

By Jacob Ajom Former Super Eagles captain and first choice goalkeeper Peter Rufai has identified Nigeria’s failure to beat South Africa in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Uyo as biggest set back in Vincent Enyeama’s abortive bid to win the 2014 Glo-CAF African Footballer of the Year Award. In a chat with […]

Beware, criminality has taken a new dimension in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

By Bose Adelaja Imagine yourself driving and suddenly, you get stoned by an underage person and you try to react but somebody appears out of the blues and says to you sarcastically: “Ah, ah, he is a child now! What do you want to do to this little kid? After all, you are a parent.” […]

(Pictures) Fire guts Balogun Market, sawmill, houses in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, January 12th, 2015

Scenes of the fire incidents | credits: Samson Folarin and Esther Olajide Tragedy struck in Lagos State on Sunday and Monday as multiple fire incidents occurred in different parts of the state, taking a life and destroying property. The fire razed Balogun Market on the Lagos Island, Oko Baba Sawmill in Ebute Meta and four […]

Some ex-NADECO chiefs are hypocrites –Jonathan

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, January 12th, 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan took his campaign to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Monday where he described some former National Democratic Coalition leaders in the South-West as hypocrites. The President, who arrived at the Mapo Hall venue of the campaign at 12.50pm after paying homage to the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana, had in […]

Summon Agbaje for questioning, group tells DSS

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, January 12th, 2015

Jimi Agbaje A civil rights group, Centre for Rights and Grassroots Initiative, has urged the Department of State Service and other security agencies to summon the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, over a warning he gave last week. Agbaje had warned that some elements in the oil rich South-South region […]

150, not 2,000 died in Baga attacks –Military (Full of lies and deception)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News Monday, January 12th, 2015

Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade | credits: www.ynaija.com The Defence authorities have faulted the claim that over 2,000 people were killed in the Boko Haram attack on Baga, the headquarters of the Multi-National Joint Task Force on January 3. The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said this during a press […]

First ladies don’t spend government money – Jonathan (Whose money do they spend then?)

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan Monday, January 12th, 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that occupants of the offices of the first lady across the nation “are not spending government money,” even though the platform has become veritable means of mobilising women for national development. The President’s position was a response to the complaints on social media that the offices constitute unnecessary burden to […]

Jonathan, Obasanjo in peace meeting (Nigerians are tired of these jokers)

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Monday, January 12th, 2015

Obasanjo and Jonathan Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday hosted President Goodluck Jonathan at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State. It was gathered that the meeting which started around 7pm and ended at about 9.15pm centered on Jonathan’s re-election bid and the need to resolve the disagreement between the two. Sources in the former […]

How far can Jonathan go in ELOOOO states?

Posted by admin Ekiti, Lagos, Latest Politics, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, State News Friday, January 9th, 2015

By Clifford Ndujihe & Dapo Akinrefon With states like Ekiti (E), Lagos (L), Ogun (O), Ondo (O), Osun (O) and Oyo (O), the six South-West states can also be described as ELOOOO states. The word elo in Yoruba, the indigenous language of South-westerners, means how much. The issue of elo or how much will play […]