The recent ambassadorial appointments by President Goodluck Jonathan are causing a growing atmosphere of unease and resentment in the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs where deserving career staff members were passed over in favour of the less experienced ones. In particular, the new appointments not only ignored seniority, experience and competence but also breached the […]
Former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, recently picked the All Progressives Grant Alliance (APGA) ticket for Anambra Central Senatorial Zone. In this interview with Uchenna Awom, she reveals her burning desire to give unrivalled representation to her people if they give her their mandate We will like to find out why you […]
Though he faulted last week’s Peoples Democratic Party’s Special National Convention that elected President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate, former vice president Atiku Abubakar has said that he would remain in the party and that anyone thinking otherwise was making a mistake. Atiku stated this yesterday in Abuja at the formal winding down of […]
More facts have emerged on why the Oyo State government failed to demolish the state secretariat of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the Olomi area of Ibadan, the state capital, on Thursday. Although the authorities had mobilized a team, comprising officials of the state Ministry of Environment and Water Resources and […]
On December 24, armed men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect stormed some churches including the Victory Baptist Church at Dala-Alamderi and shot to death the resident pastor, Rev. Bulus Marwa (37), Christopher Balami, a lecturer in the state-owned polytechnic, Paul Mathew, Philip Luka and a tea hawker, Yohana Adamu. The rampaging […]
Chairman of Lagos Peoples Vanguard (LPV), a multi-ethnic pressure group, Comrade Sola Omoshola, has alleged plans by President Goodluck Jonathan to destabilize the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)-led administration in the state. He alleged that the president was planning to incite some ethnic groups to work against the party, all in a desperate bid to […]
The Lagos division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the conviction of former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, and five other former top officials of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). A statement by Mr. Femi Babafemi, head, Media & Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), […]
Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku is a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who represented Benue North/West senatorial district between 1999 and 2003 in the Senate. In this thought-provoking interview with Saturday Sun, Waku takes a look at the just-concluded primary elections of the PDP and concluded that President Goodluck Jonathan stole victory at […]
RECENTLY, in the United States of America, an event took place in Houston, Texas, which triggered thoughts as to whether such a laudable programme could not be replicated here in Nigeria. It was the period when Americans were preparing for their yearly thanksgiving and the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Texas Zone 9, thought […]
The Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has emerged the Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) for the April general election. The Chairman of the ANPP convention committee, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, while clearing the air on the contravention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deadline, said the party had been […]
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