President Goodluck Jonathan Following recent killings by the Boko Haram sect, some Nigerians have, via online media, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to discontinue the ongoing centenary celebrations. Nigeria is currently celebrating 100 years of the amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates by Lord Frederick Lugard in 1914. On Thursday, a petition was published […]
Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said everybody should be blamed for the activities of the dreaded members of the Boko Haram sect. Abubakar, who was reacting to the killings of schoolchildren by members of the sect in Yobe State, stated that instead of looking for solutions, many Nigerians were trading […]
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday said he rejected the centenary award to be conferred on him by the Federal Government because the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, was included in the list of awardees. In a statement entitled, ‘The canonisation of terror,’ Soyinka said it was an […]
Says Present Structure Breeds Corruption, Violence AS Nigeria marks 100 years of its corporate existence, former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Anyaoku has, again, called for true federalism, describing it as “the only way to progress and development.” According to him, the present structure breeds high cost of governance, tribalism and religious bigotry. In a telephone conversation […]
Leaders advertisement AS Nigeria’s centenary anniversary celebrations peaked Thursday, world leaders took turns to felicitate with the country, urging her to take her prime place in the comity of nations. Meanwhile, free movement of Nigerians and foreign dignitaries in Abuja as the nation celebrated its centenary yesterday was hampered by […]
BY DAYO ADESULU, AMAKA ABAYOMI & LAJU ARENYEKA First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan has said that Nigerians must ensure that a significant percentage of the country’s young people, especially girls, should acquire university education. “There is a popular saying that if you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, […]
-Tribune THE possibility of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) returning to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as requested by President Goodluck Jonathan is zero, the spokesman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) has said. Addressing a PDP grand rally in Owerri, […]
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said politicians who want to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party should do so within a few days or be ready to queue behind wards heads when they finally do so. He insisted that the PDP was a party to beat, and […]
…Even if he wins 2015 poll Yunus Ustaz Usman is a Kaduna-based Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He is also the Chairman, Legal Committee and member of National Council on Privatisation. In this exclusive interview with ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE, the learned SAN condemned criticisms of the Supreme Court, saying that, if not for the Supreme Court, […]
IIorin – Alhaji Yusuf Kawu, the Secretary of Kwara Chapter of Arewa Consultative Forum, has called for the development of a regional economic agenda for states in the North. He said that this would be enable states in the region to articulate their vision for the development of the region. Daibu made this call in […]
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