Mind your Business, PDP tells Tinubu
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has told the National Leader of The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Tinubu to focus on salvaging his fast crumbling political…
Scores Burn to Death on Benin-Ore Road
At least 36 passengers were burnt beyond recognition in an accident that occurred on the Benin-Ore Expressway on Friday.The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), which had earlier confirmed that 62…
Right-of-Reply: ‘Story of the Week’ Series for March 24 & 31, 2013
Editor: I write this rejoinder in response to the ‘Story of the Week’ serialised in your newspaper editions for Sunday, March 24 and March 30, 2013, in which you took…
NLC Set for One-Day Industrial Strike over Pension Irregularities
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has mandated workers all over the country to embark on industrial action next Wednesday to protest the unsatisfactory administration of the pension industry, which has…
Counting the Cost of Nigeria’s Water
Not many Nigerians may know Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and fewer still would have any reason to. Born in 1772, he was an English poet who lived long before any notion…
Jonathan Succumbs to Pressure…Set to Grant Amnesty to Boko Haram
Bowing to large-scale public outcry, particularly from northern Leaders, President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday instituted a committee to consider the possibility of granting amnesty to members of the Boko Haram…
U.S. Professor Seeks International Intervention over Alamieyeseigha
A United States professor of law, Alexander W. Sierck has sent an appeal to the government of President Barack Obama through the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to employ…
Can APC cure Nigeria’s headache? (1)
As the merger of the country’s major opposition parties crystallized a few months ago into a mega party known as All Progressives Congress (APC), I received an email from my…
ACN Berates PDP for Arrest of Party Chairman in Ekiti
The arrest and subsequent transfer to Abuja of Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe following the death of an indigene of his hometown,…
Soku Oil Field: Rivers Withdraws from Talks, Sues Bayelsa
The long-drawn-out battle between Bayelsa and Rivers States for Soku Oil Fields has assumed another dimension with the latter’s decision to jettison peace talks for a law suit, an action…