Transport Minister Ebrima Sillah has announced that feasibility studies have already started to construct the Banjul-Barra bridge as part of the Abidjan-Lagos-Dakar corridor.Ebrima…
His Excellency, Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, president of the Republic of Botswana has appointed minister Philda Nani Kereng Botswana's high commissioner to Nigeria.In a s…
As 2024 has arrived, the Divide between the Old and the New appears to be huge.However, People are waking up, “emerging”. Beginning to remember, in their droves. It is Time to Heal…
Sir Chief Tom Ikhimi is a former Nigerian Minister for foreign Affairs. He was also a former National Chairman of National Republican Congress(NRC), one of the two political partie…
*Governor Godwin Obaseki's approval of payment of LG gratuities backlog owed for 29 years is a masterstroke*The news that the Edo State Governor, His Excellency Mr. Godwin Obaseki,…
It was a rainy day. But the terraces of the Yakubu Gowon stadium, Elekohia, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were packed to the rafters. People of all walks of life defied the downpour…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Se…
President Bola Tinubu resently in Abuja said Nigeria would no longer play Father Christmas role to neighbouring countries.He said this at an interactive session with traditional ru…
Elections, they say, is a game of numbers where majority wins the vote, and this has been evident in virtually almost all governorship elections conducted in Edo State. While Edo S…
The war in Sudan between the army and paramilitary groups headed by two generals, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Mohamed Hamdani Dagalo ‘Hemedti’ has exposed a conflict of i…
In line with the resolution of the Esan Assembly, held last weekend, to reach out to Edo North and Edo South Senatorial Zones in the quest to get them concede the governorship cont…
In a statement, Obaseki commended Edo people who participated in the elections.He said, “I congratulate candidates of our party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on their victor…
Nigeria’s President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has been named in the Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2023.Time Magazine’s yearly list of the 100 most influential pe…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented Certificates of Return to the Edo State House of Assembly member-elect, following their victory at the March 18 A…
Edo State House of Assembly, Tuesday, resumed plenary with the consideration of a Bill for a law to establish a single haulage fee on agricultural farm produce. The bill considered…
When Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu raised Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s hands during the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally in Delta State and introduced him as the governor of Niger Del…
Your Excellency,I am Olayiwola Rasheed Emmanuel, an Engineer cum Journalist, a Poet and Public Servant, and a Citizen of Nigeria. My father; Olayiwola Hamzat Habeeblah, is an eccle…
The 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections commenced in Edo state in a peaceful and Organized manner and our correspondent who visited some wards accross the state repor…
Ahead of Nigeria’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections slated for Saturday, February 25th, 2023, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt. Hon Patricia Scotland KC, was…
I am peering at the viral video of the naked young man inside the banking hall as I write this. His manhood dangles like the pendulum of the Grandfather Clock of colonial Nigeria.…
As I reflect ruefully on Nigerian’s perennial political imbroglio, my mind dwells on what Chinua Achebe of blessed memory once said about what he considered to be the problem of Ni…
The Independent National Electoral Commission met today, Saturday, 29th January 2023 a day after its meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) from the 36 States of…
As a Nigerian on the fifth floor of human sojourn on earth, I have seen a lot, and I believe I am in a good position to offer an opinion on how we can save our country through ever…
Abakaliki the Ebonyi State capital was literally shot down today as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) satged its presidential campaign rally at Abakaliki the Ebonyi State capital.…
The atmosphere in Asaba the Delta State capital was carnival-like today as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held its presidential campaign rally in the state in continuation of i…
In continuation of his nationwide campaign preparatory to the forthcoming presidential election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, G…
As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) continues its consultations and electioneering campaigns nationwide preparatory to the forthcoming election in February, the party's president…
A joke runs through my mind that if hard work pays, why are donkeys poor! I know philosophers will philosophize and say that a donkey is irrational but I am here not to discuss thi…
But those in Atiku’s camp knew and rightly too that OBJ endorsement is nothing but adverse publicity and therefore they are not losing sleep about the purported endorsement. They h…
Sawa is a statesman, a nationalist and a detribalized Nigeria though deeply religious but not fanatical. Indeed, our youths and politicians of today will have a lot to learn from t…
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the sudden demise of Nigeria's Ambassador to Spain, Ademola Razaq Seriki, as shocking beyo…
The APC Presidential candidate in his address titled “Nigeria’s 2023 elections: Security, economic and foreign policy imperatives” vowed that as President, Nigeria will epitomise v…
Most popular Lagos State Candidate in the 2023 general elections; Grassroot Politician, Serial Entrepreneur, Businessman, Philanthropist and Leader of the highly famous political g…
The Federal Government has released details of oil derivation refunds made to Niger Delta states amidst a growing controversy that the funds had been misused by some governments in…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on thursday urged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to ignore envious critics, especially those from his hom…
*LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT LANDS IN EDO* Yesterday night, the sleek aircraft with ObiDient livery landed at Benin Airport. Though it was night and the information was not…
Fishes don’t swim, they run when fire burns in Rivers. Hypocrisy downs virtue and upholds vice when the crocodile sheds tears. This is the unfolding scenario in the Peoples Democra…
The diasporas of many developed countries have been a catalyst for the development of their countries for years. Countries such as Sweden, China, India, Israel, Japan, the Republic…
Broken in every bone, life hangs by the thread for 62-year-old comatose patient, Nigeria, inside the intensive care unit of the decrepit Ass-o-Rock hospital, Abuja, where it nurses…
For our own good, I hope we listen.I do hope we will hear and obey.It happened first in Lagos.The NBA conference was held a few minutes from Tinubu's residence.Yet Tinubu didn't sh…
Dear Nigerians,Let us not be deceived again, the propaganda of Peter Obi’s rallies across the national is getting the politics interesting in Nigeria.This was how Nigerians were cl…
I have been trying to say congratulations to us, instead it only but ends in sighs. How can a man born 62 years ago still be learning how to sit down properly? When will he learn t…
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch of the United kingdom has died at 96.The Queen died peacefully on thursday afternoon, 8th September, 2022 at her Batmoral castle, h…
Contentment is the grace to stand up from the dinning table and look away from the food tray when your belly is full. But the Nigerian public officials although filled and belching…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says his team is more interested in a better Nigeria, and are consulting widely with those who mean well for the country.The Governor said…
I honestly wish these are false claims but sadly, they are verified facts.Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.The…
... SAYS FG SHOULD STOP PLAYING FATHER CHRISTMAS AND BIG BROTHER AFRICA WHILE THE NATION BURNS... URGES SECURITY AGENTS TO SIT UP AND TACKLE TERRORISM HEAD-ON... COMMENDS OUR GALLA…
Jeremy Corbyn — the former far-left leader of the British Labour Party whose tenure was marked by a series of scandals around antisemitism — has urged western countries to stop arm…
We live in a baffling world in which many leaders believe that their people can be led by the nose. They assume they are wise and that those they govern are stupid. This leads to a…
Will there be elections next year? Across the 19 northern states, tell me, apart from certain parts of Kwara and Kogi, where else will people queue on Election Day in 2023 without…
