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Headlines
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
Detectives from Lagos State Command have arrested three policemen and three others for allegedly robbing some Chinese in their homes in Shomolu area of the state. The policemen identified as Sergeant Peter Owechi, Sergeant Chigno Ada and Corporal Francis Onu were attached to Mopol 43, Bauchi. They were in Delta State on a special duty […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Headlines
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
Badeh’s mansion. Photos: Eniola Akinkuotu Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja A N1.1bn mansion seized from the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.), has been converted to an office to be used by the Federal Government, The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent, who visited the property located on Plot 6 Ogun River Crescent, […]
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Headlines, Local Govt
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Sustainable Change through Local Government Administration by Obafemi George We’re in the season of change. For the first time in Nigeria’s history, the voice of the people resonated loudly at the polls when the then opposition party APC was voted into power. It was a defining moment for our nation when the ever-resilient Nigerian people stamped their […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State Government House Wellington Bassey Way Uyo 15th August, 2016 Your Excellency, Stop Gary Foxcroft’s Criminal Activities in Akwa Ibom State I want to respectfully draw your attention to another smear campaign against the state and Nigeria as a whole that is about to be launched by a notorious Briton […]
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Articles, Columnists, Edo, Elections, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | October 10, 2016 – Even though the Edo Gubernatorial election was postponed from for about two weeks, it appears not much changed within the period in terms of its outcome. Epistemologically speaking, we saw a titanic battle between People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and All progressives Congress […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Economy, Headlines, Press Releases
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Nigerian Recession: Centre announces Essay Prize for Solutions Nigerian Recession Lagos-based international Graduate School, CIAPS (The Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies) has announced a Public Interest Essay Competition aimed at studying the Nigerian Recession and finding solutions to it. The competition themed Nigerian Recession: Diagnosis & Prognosis which has a total of one […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | October 10, 2016 – When Karl Maier published his book This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria in the year 2000, I was probably among the first people he gave an advance copy of the book months before it was formally published. I was at that the Books […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Aviation, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | October 10, 2016 – I travelled to Kenya on July 14 2016 to attend a conference in Nairobi on the intellectual legacies of the late Kenyan political scientist Ali Mazrui. From the conference I was to travel to London for a one- week holiday. The organisers of the […]
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Biafra, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, October 10th, 2016
The Chairman, Northern Governors Forum, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has said that neither the Indigenous People of Biafra nor other separatist agitators can divide Nigeria. Shettima, who is the governor of Borno State, said this on Monday in Kaduna at a summit organised by the Northern Elders Forum. Shettima said it was foolhardy for anyone to […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Monday, October 10th, 2016
Afeez Hanafi The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two members of a robbery gang for allegedly attacking a polythene producing company in Alibaba, in the Isashi area of the state, stealing a raw material evaluated at N6.4m. The suspects are 42-year-old Moruf Afolabi and one Saheed Adeoti, a new worker of the company. A […]