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According to a recent survey, the majority of people in Germany view the news media as simply a pillar of the government and the powerfully elite. Only one third of the respondents think that the German news media is truly independent, while the majority view the government and parties as having control over particular policies, […]

Submitted by Mike “Mish” Shedlock Another Deadlocked Election Coming Up In Spain? After six months of failed coalition attempts, Spain’s King Felipe dissolved parliament and announced new elections. I reported on this last week, but the official document dissolving parliament was signed today. New elections are on June 26. Will the results be any different? […]

Angelique Kidjo poses with the award for Best World Music Album for “Sings” during the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 15, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Amnesty International has given its top 2016 human rights award to Grammy Award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo and to three African youth activist movements […]Read More

Seven students from Kano lost their lives on Tuesday morning, along Ibadan –Lagos express way in a road accident believed to have been caused by a burst tyre, and the Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has described their deaths as shocking. “On getting information about the accident, I immediately called the governor of […]

Femi Fani-Kayode I have just read some absurd media reports in the Nation Newspaper which have qouted their sources in the EFCC as saying that I had gone underground and that I was hiding from them. This is false. I have not been invited by the EFCC by letter and neither have they phoned me […]

President Buhari making a presentation to Paul Biya, President of Republic of Cameroon and his wife Mrs Chantel Biya at the end of their 2 day state visit to Nigeria at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja on 4th May 2016 The Registered Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have dragged the Federal […]

We call on ASUU and other Unions to Speak out against the Monumental injustice going on at the University of Lagos The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) asks Nigerians to hold the authorities of the University of Lagos responsible for the impending mass failure in the University. This is because the University is forcing students to […]

The war against Boko Haram continues in Nigeria The Nigerian Army says it has conducted a special operation against Boko Haram in several villages in Borno State, leaving many suspected terrorists dead and at least 400 hostages rescued. The special operation on Wednesday was carried out by troops of the 7 Division at Chingurimi, Walasa […]

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday stormed the headquarters of Sterling Bank Plc in Lagos for an undisclosed investigation. One of our correspondents gathered that the operatives of the anti-graft agency quizzed the Managing Director of the bank, Mr. Yemi Adeola, for over two hours, but the details were not […]

Nigerian Army battles Boko Haram The Nigerian Army has described the battle last night between its troops and Boko Haram in Borno State as fierce but successful. In a statement, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the Acting Director Army Public Relations, said an attack by Boko Haram at Izza-Mainyakare axis in Borno State, lasted about 40 minutes, […]

In a Facebook post on Thursday, former President Goodluck Jonathan remembered his former boss, the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, six years after he passed away on May 5, 2010, throwing Nigeria into confusion and triggering the type of power vacuum never seen before in Africa’s most populous nation. Mr. Jonathan, then Vice President, was sworn in […]Read More

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday visited the headquarters of Sterling Bank Plc in Lagos for reasons yet unknown. Sources say the Managing Director of the bank, Yemi Adeola, was questioned for over hours, but the details were not disclosed. When contacted on the development, officials of the bank refused to […]