Jonathan risks Nigeria’s break up if he contests in 2015-Primate Ayodele (So be it)

Photo:  Sun News Publishing By:  WOLE BALOGUN Date:  Tue, 06/19/2012 – 20:22  Head of the Inri Evangelical Spiritual Church, Oke-Afa, Lagos, primate Ayodele Elijah Babatunde, has cautioned that President Goodluck Jonathan should not give in to the temptation to contest in the 2015 presidential election, as that could lead to Nigeria’s break up.  “In 2011, […]

I did not mastermind bribery scandal – Jonathan

June 15, 2012 by Niyi Odebode and Olalekan Adetayo President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said there was no truth in widespread insinuation that his government was orchestrating the $620,000 bribery scandal involving the Chairman of the House of Representatives’ ad hoc committee on the fuel subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, and an oil businessman, Mr. Femi […]

Jonathan won’t stay more than eight years –Aide (Duhh)

The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, has said the President won’t stay more than eight years in office. Gulak said this on Wednesday during a courtesy call on him by the North Central Women Forum led by a former member of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Amina Aliyu. […]

Poverty not Nigeria’s problem – Abdulsalami

Minna—Former Military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has said that Nigeria was not the only country in the world where there is poverty. Abubakar spoke shortly after prayers to mark his 70th birthday anniversary at his hill top mansion in Minna, Niger State. He spoke against the backdrop of incessant bombings by an Islamist […]

Mr. President, Stop the Domestication & the Abusive Privatization of the Police – Dr. John E. Oshodi

By Dr. John E. Oshodi | NNP | June 13, 2012 – President Jonathan, it is time for an executive order to be issued in order to put an end to the ongoing  deeply painful domestic and abusive relationship between law enforcement officers, the police in particular and very important persons in the country.  Many […]

19 years after June 12: Pro-democracy activists speak

BY DAPO AKINREFON Without June 12, there won’t be May 29 — Ayo Adebanjo, former NADECO chieftain I agree with what the public opinion says, it is to get a Federal Government institution named after him and the consensus of opinion seems to be the National Stadium at Abuja or in Lagos. We would not […]

Africa remains central to Nigeria’s foreign policy – Jonathan (Does Africa Care?)

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated the centrality of Africa, its peace, political stability and socio-economic development to Nigeria’s foreign policy. He said this on Thursday while receiving the new Mauritanian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr B.A. Abderrahmane, in State House, Abuja. He said in furtherance of his government’s commitment to work with other African countries to […]

In Defense of Buhari’s Democracy – By Muhammad Ajah

By Muhammad Ajah | Abuja, Nigeria | June 7, 2012 – Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails and where society becomes an organized conspiracy to oppress, neither persons nor property will be safe” Patrick Douglas (1886). What is the problem with Nigeria’s democratic rule that worries General Muhammadu Buhari so […]

Too Easy to Blame Just Jonathan – By Anthony A. Kila

By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | June 7, 2012 – With his recent declaration intent to change the name of University of Lagos in honor of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential elections, Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has again confirmed what many of us of think of him and his administration: […]

Jonathan forwards bills on renaming of UNILAG, others to Senate

Abuja –  President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded bills to the Senate to change the names of three federal universities. They are University of Lagos, to be renamed Moshood Abiola University, Lagos, Federal University of Technology Yola to be changed to Modibbo Adama University of Technology,Yola and Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike to be named after […]

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