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The Nigerian President, General Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed the senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki’s allegations that he has lost control and a cabal have taken over the federal government as “pretentious and imaginary”. In a statement by signed by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, and released on Monday, June 27, 2016, Buhari challenged Saraki to back his claims by naming […]Read More

When Aso Rock staff got a circular in the morning of Wednesday, June 22, 2016 directing them to attend an “emergency meeting” with President Muhammadu Buhari, they were thrilled. Many of them thought it was going to be a heart-to-heart talk, and had planned to discuss burning welfare issues with the president. Indeed, many of […]

ith last week’s appointment of Mr. Ibrahim Idris as the acting inspector-general of police, President Muhammadu Buhari further made the headship of virtually all the military-cum-defence agencies and related agencies which wear uniform a Northern affair. Show the following: Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, North; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique […]

A respected Christian cleric and leading voice in national issues, Bishop Mathew Kukah says quite a lot, about a lot of issues affecting Nigeria in this extensive interview with Punch. Kukah appraises General Muhammadu Buhari’s first year in office as president and suggests solutions to the many agitations in the country. “National stability is still […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 arraigned Nenadi Esther Usman, a former minister of finance and director of finance for the Goodluck Jonathan presidential campaign organization in the 2015 elections, and Chief Femi Fani-Kayode also a former minister and director media and publicity of the Goodluck Jonathan presidential campaign […]

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has filed a notice of appeal and application for stay of execution on the ruling of a federal court in Abuja on his qualification to run for office of governor. The documents were filed by Ikpeazu’s lawyers in the morning of Monday, June 28, 2016 at the Court of Appeal […]

Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has filed an appeal against the judgment of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, June 27, 2016, which removed him from ‎office as governor over alleged falsification of tax receipts. The governor, in a notice of appeal filed by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, raised five grounds of […]

he level of civility and passion involved in the Bretix referendum is in many ways awe inspiring. While Bretix is not without its challenges, it is reminiscent of the fact that people have the rights to self-determination regardless of their geopolitical affiliations. The big lesson here is that any ethnic nationality should be able to exit any […]

any people question my patriotism because I tolerate the Biafranists on my discourse. While Biafra is not the objectives of my discourse, Biafra is a legitimate voice of dissent to the continued failures of the Nigerian state. The Biafra quests are a sincere expression of the deep-seated, over pressured, growing, and dangerously active seismic faults […]

A judge in a federal capital territory high court, Justice Yusuf Haliru, has granted Senate President Bukola Saraki and three other defendants arraigned Monday, June 27, 2016 by the federal government on forgery charges conditional bail. Justice Haliru ordered that Saraki, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, and the other two defendants are to provide two reasonable […]

The Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs) comprising: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Anambra State Branch of the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Center for Human Rights & Peace Advocacy (CHRPA), Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC)(HRC), Forum for Justice, Equity & Defense of Human Rights (FJEDHR), […]

he witch hunt continues; out of tens of thousands of debtors, the pigs of Nigeria’s Animal Farm have fished out Ben Murray-Bruce for humiliation, “Oh look, he owes BILLIONS!” Meanwhile, Aisha Buhari cannot muster the courage to simply demand that the US clears her good name and stop the ugly rumors that she has a […]