How prominent Nigerians saw PDP’s lavish celebration of Bode George’s freedom

Yinka Odumakin spokesman for Major General Muhammadu Buhari “The reception is shameful and condemnable. It shows that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its leadership are immune to shame, that is why they will roll out drums for an ex_convict like Bode George. If we don’t stop PDP at the polls, our children will not […]

Buhari berates PDP

Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari has accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of entrenching corruption in the country. Buhari who stated this during the flag off of his North-Central Presidential campaign rally in Minna, Niger State, described the 12 years rule of the PDP as a disaster. […]

FoI Bill/Igbo presidency Abba-Aji swallows words

Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, said he did not foreclose the emergence of an Igbo person as the President of the country in 2015. He said his statement that Vice-President Namadi Sambo would step in when President Goodluck Jonathan steps down in 2015 was his personal view which […]

Bode George’s welcome party, a show of shame

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 […]

Obasanjo re-echoes do-or-die politics at Jonathan’s Lagos rally

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, […]

Senate passes money laundering bill

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 […]

You are rogues, PDP boss tells Fashola, Tinubu

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 […]

FoI Bill: Jonathan disowns Abba-Aji

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 […]

Sack him now, lawmaker, activist tell Jonathan

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 […]

Presidential poll: Posers for Ribadu

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 […]

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