IOC Divestments Won’t Cause Crisis, NNPC Assures
Insinuations in some quarters that the recent spate of divestments from certain onshore oil blocks by some international oil companies (IOC) may lead to crisis in the nation’s oil and…
APC to Begin Membership Registration in November
Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed has disclosed that the party would begin the registration of its members nationwide next month. Although Mohammed…
APC Slams Patience Jonathan over Honorary Award
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as the height of insensitivity, the decision of First Lady Patience Jonathan to receive an Honorary Doctorate award in far away South Korea…
Editorial: African Leaders and the Mo Ibrahim Prize
For the fourth time in five years, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership – the world’s biggest individual prize – was not awarded, because “after careful consideration”…
President Jonathan’s Confusion About National Dialogue
President Jonathan announced on October 1, 2013 his intention to convoke a national conference at which there would be no issues excluded from discussion. He then inaugurated on October 7,…
As Anambra People go to the polls
I am intimately connected to Anambra State. My wife Chukwunonso hails from there. However my interest in Anambra state goes slightly beyond the type an ordinary in-law should have. I…
Gunmen Kidnap Oronto Douglas’s Sister
The Bayelsa State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of Mrs. Augusta Douglas-Ayam, the elder sister of Mr. Oronto Douglas, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and…
Why I Quit the National Conference Advisory Committee – Ben Nwabueze
Professor Ben Nwabueze has refuted reports suggesting that he resigned his membership National Conference Advisory Committee because he did not trust President Goodluck Jonathan and failure to appoint him as…
Gov. T.A Orji and the Budget of Hopelessness
The 2013 Abia State Appropriation bill, also called “budget of hope”, which was signed into Law by Gov. T.A Orji on Friday February 4, is not only a desecration of…
A Swipe at the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize
Until recently when the Nobel Committee swiftly presented the 2009 award to President Barack Obama who had just occupied the Oval Office, promising to effect a change in the hawkish,…