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American Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
New York – The U.S. said on Tuesday that the agenda being pursued by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration were in line with its expectations. Buhari and Trump The Deputy Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, Mr Nathan Holt, made the remarks on Tuesday from Washington, […]
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Economy, Latest Politics, Naira (Currency)
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
By Babajide Komolafe The nation’s external reserve on Monday dropped by $50 million, the first time in six weeks. Since March 28th, the external reserve has been on the upward trend rising from $30.3 billion to $30.983 billion Friday last week. Data posted by the CBN on its website show that the rising trend was […]
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Budget, Latest Politics
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA-Though report of the three-man Presidential Committee that investigated the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General, Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke, is yet to be made public, both men stand suspended, a Presidency source has said. Investigations by Vanguard, last night, revealed that chairman […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

Olalekan Adetayo and Eniola Akinkuotu Leaders of Chibok community, under the aegis of Kibaku Area Development Association, have faulted a negotiator, Zannah Mustapha, for saying that some abducted schoolgirls refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the weekend. The Chairman, Chibok Community in Abuja, Hosea Tsambido, told reporters in Abuja, […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories, Women Politics
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
THEY are beautiful, powerful; mostly brilliant and accomplished. They were the dream come true of the Nigerian feminist community which lauded the Jonathan administration’s affirmative action of appointing women into key government positions. They were to prove the widely held belief that what a man can do, a woman can do better. In his controversial […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
By Victor Ahiuma-Young THE increasing challenge of unpaid salaries and other benefits, job insecurity, casualisation of workers, intimidation, among other unfair practices, confronting both public and private sectors’ workers in Nigeria is the manifestation of the dangerous trend in the world of work. Members of United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, at a road show […]
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Bayelsa, Election 2015, Elections, General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Latest Politics, Presidency, State News
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

By Onozure Dania Former Security Adviser to Bayelsa State Government, Chief Perekeme Kpodoh, yesterday, said that former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election because of the retaliation from those he betrayed politically. Kpodoh, who was reacting to the book, Against the Run of Play, authored by Segun Adeniyi, Chairman of the Editorial Board […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, May 1st, 2017
By Gbenga Olarinoye Osogbo—The founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande had urged Nigerians to pray fervently for President Muhammadu Buhari’s health. A statement by Chief Akande in Osogbo yesterday, read in part: “The health of the leader is intricately intertwined with the health of the nation. It is more […]
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Biafra, Latest Politics
Monday, May 1st, 2017
g ENUGU- Against the background of prosecution of the leaders of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, publisher of Champion newspapers, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has said that he belongs to Biafra and that he remains a Biafran as an Igboman. Iwuanyanwu who was reacting to the recent release of Kanu from prison detention said was […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, May 1st, 2017
My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, “My Candid Letter to Saraki.” I take everything you said in that article to heart and I must commend you for your candidness indeed and the sincerity of your intentions. As you said in your article, you are someone I […]