The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has described as shameful the recent pomp and pageantry with which the former Vice Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George, was greeted on his release from Kirikiri Maximum prison. George was released on Saturday after serving a two and half year jail term. He was convicted on […]
The ‘do-or-die’ electoral philosophy espoused by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the build-up to the 2007 elections resonated on Tuesday as the former president again said in Lagos that he would never allow the Peoples Democratic Party to lose the April elections. Though he did not clarify how he would do it this time around, […]
With an overwhelming voice vote, the Senate on Tuesday passed the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Bill to repeal the 2004 Act The passage of the Bill followed the approval given to the recommendations of Senator Ibrahim Ida-led Ad-hoc Committee that fine-tuned the earlier legislative work carried out by the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes […]
The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Mohammed Bello stirred the hornet’s nest yesterday, accusing Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola and his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of corruption. Speaking at the party’s presidential campaign rally at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, Bello accused the duo of misapplying the state’s […]
President Goodlouck Jonathan yesterday distanced itself from comments made his Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, on the recently passed Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill, saying that it was the senator’s personal opinion. Abba-Aji had said in Maiduguri while addressing newsmen that the FoI Bill passed into law by the House of […]
A member of the House of Representatives, Abike Dabiri-Erewa and a Lagos lawyer, Dame Carol Ajie have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to sack his aide, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji immediately over his comment on the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill. Berating the former senator for his pronouncement on the Bill, Dabiri-Erewa who is the Committee Chairman […]
Politics as usual makes strange bedfellows. The Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), has at least demonstrated its lack of depth by fielding Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as its presidential candidate. Few people would have imagined they would ever see the day when Ribadu and Czar […]
Barely five days after a Federal High Court in Abuja postponed the governorship elections in five states, the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to decide on whether it would appeal the judgement or not. The commission had, shortly after the judgement, said it was handing it over to its team of lawyers for […]
The recent appointment of a former beauty queen, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, as an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan, has attracted diverse opinions. But EMMANUEL OBE writes that it might be the fillip Bianca needs to launch herself into the nation’s political firmament These might not be the best of times for Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, a former […]
South African police have raided the prison cell of Henry Okah accused of orchestrating deadly bombings in Abuja after authorities there said he had threatened new attacks, media said yesterday. Police seized cell phones, chargers, a map and papers with phone numbers on them from the cell of Okah, who is facing trial on terrorism […]
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