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General Politics, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Femi Fani-Kayode | credits: Photo file A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says President Muhammadu Buhari, who is a Fulani man, is sympathetic towards Fulani herdsmen. The former minister said this in a Facebook post titled, ‘Herdsmen from hell’ while reacting to the abduction of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Starnded workers | credits: Success Nwogu No fewer than 85 workers and visitors were locked out at the Governor’s Office in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday. The governor’s office complex is made up of offices of workers under the office of the Secretary to the State Government, the Head of Service, the Ministry of […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote The President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has been honoured with the 2015 Clinton Global Citizen Award for leadership in the private sector for his contributions to the development of the African society and the world at large. According to a statement by the group, the award ceremony was […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu The measures introduced by the Federal Government to monitor crude transit and check oil theft are said to be threatening income lifeline, compounding the damage the crude price fall has done to Nigeria’s finances, access to dollars and imports. Oil traders and shipping brokers said a newly […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Senate President, Bukola Saraki THE Senate, expectedly, had a stormy session on Tuesday as some members of the upper legislative chamber protested the passing of vote of confidence in the Senate president, Olusola Saraki, by 83 senators. Tuesday was the Senate’s first plenary since the arraignment of Saraki by the Code of Conduct Bureau […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari As the nation awaits President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list, the President on Tuesday said he would head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. Buhari dropped the hint in one of the interviews he granted one of the foreign media in his hotel shortly before departing New York. The President was in New York […]
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Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Saturday, September 26th, 2015
Kayode Soremekun aertisement TOP HEADLINES As I contemplate the Nigerian condition or non-condition, I continue to marvel at contemporary happenings. The nirvana is certainly not here yet. Still, it is possible to discern new ozone in public life. Suddenly, public officials are more responsive. The refineries appear to be working. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 26th, 2015
A leading figure of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement has condemned the position of certain Arab states of the Persian Gulf on the potential execution of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. Yehia Hamed, who worked as investment minister in Morsi’s administration, and was the youngest minister in his democratically elected government, specifically pointed fingers at Saudi Arabia, a […]
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Headlines, United Nations
Saturday, September 26th, 2015
Teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks at a press conference during the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015 in New York. She urged leaders to zero in on promoting education even as world leaders pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, September 26th, 2015
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Sept. 26, 2015 – I was wrong about my view on the recent ban on ogogoro, the locally-brewed gin that caused the death of many in Rivers State recently. I had supported the action of the federal government in outlawing both its production and consumption, perhaps because of […]
