The Arewa Consultative Forrum (ACF) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to suspend the submission of the bill on his proposed single tenure is a mark of his sensitivity to public opinion and mood of the nation. “It is, therefore, welcome. It has been the position of the ACF that no mere forms of […]
Indications have emerged that the prospect of Nigeria’s deployment of troops in war-ravaged Somalia is very slim. This is contrary to an earlier promise by the government to do so in 2007. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations showed that the Federal Government might have taken a second look at the arrangement made by the late President Umaru […]
MEMO TO:PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN FROM:Lawrence Okezie Odoemelem Subject:At a time like this… Dear Mr. President, I am greatly disturbed by your recent adventure into this six year single tenure debate barely three months after you were sworn in as the 14th President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Your interest in […]
Claims rejecting Atiku’s request for favour Why sale of Daily Times went awry, by firms’ chiefs BPE denies alleged govt’s shares in Eleme Petrochemical FROM November 1999 to July 2003, he was the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and also the Secretary of the National Council of Privatisation (NCP). Thereafter he became […]
Until Saturday, July 9, 2011, when Tavershima Olayinka, Orkar, an architect, and second son of the late Major Gideon Gwadza Orkar, got married in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, not much had been heard of the family of the man who led one of the bloodiest revolts in Nigeria’s political history: the putsch against the General Ibrahim […]
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has asked the Presidential Election Tribunal to enter judgment in favour of its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari on the grounds that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has flouted the order of the tribunal directing it to allow the party to inspect the materials used for the April […]
Delta State Government has denied offering N3bn bribe to Electoral Petitions Tribunal judges and former President Olusegun Obasanjo to secure a favourable verdict for Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. An online news portal, Saharareporters, had reported that the state offered the huge sum to “buy the judgment” of the tribunal in the suit by the state Democratic […]
Disturbed by the continued incarceration of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer (CSO)to the late head of state, General Sani Abacha, youth groups in the North that met under the aegis of Arewa Youth Forum(AYF), at the weekend, appealed to former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, to clarify the issues raised by […]
Complete title of this article is – Jonathan, Now That You Have a Shoe, Where are You Going? By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – August 7, 2011 – This is a second instalment of an essay I wrote some weeks back…in that admonishment, I had asked that President Jonathan should start walking with or […]
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, according to an Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, offered money to the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) leaders who visited him just immediately after the demise of General Sani Abacha, the maximum dictator, to whom Major al-Mustapha was the chief security officer, CSO. But the offer was politely turned […]
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