Category: Nigeria

Photo: Twitter/Femigbaja All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that despite the challenges facing the country today, Nigeria has moved towards a better and greater democracy. He made this known yesterday as he joined other Nigerians to celebrate this year’s Democracy Day. The former Lagos State governor, in a statement, […]

As the nation marks Democracy Day today, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has disclosed its plan to approach the international community to “assist the entrapped ethnic nationalities to regain their fundamental human rights, freedom, human dignity and right to self-determination enshrined in global laws and protocols.” The group said the move became necessary because President […]

Contrary to speculations in some quarters, President Muhammadu Buhari was informed about the June 10, 2021, meeting of some eminent Nigerians under the aegis of the Committee for the Goodness of Nigeria (CGN). According to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was one of the conveners of the meeting, members of the group agreed to formally […]

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State (right), Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman of South East Governors Forum, David Umahi; Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu; Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma; Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Nkem Okeke; Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (left) and others, during a security meeting of the Federal Government’s […]

President Mohammadu Buhari today admitted that there is still much to be done by his government to meet the economic target of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years notwithstanding the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In his speech on the occasion of the commemoration of the country’s Democracy Day, he said […]

Nigerians celebrate June 12 tomorrow, both as the now official Democracy Day and in remembrance of Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola who won the presidential election of June 12, 1993, adjudged to be the best election in the country. Coming closely after the commemoration of May 29 as democracy inauguration day, it is ironic that […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said Nigerians would fare better staying together than break up. He stated this in Abeokuta at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyor (NIS) organised by the Ogun chapter of the Body of Fellows of the NIS. The elder statesman called on agitators for the […]

Lagos seeks special status Akeredolu, Afe Babalola call for 1963 Constitution Southeast: give us more states Niger Delta canvasses fiscal federalism The urgent need for the resolution of the contentious ‘National Question’ was on  the front burner yesterday at the public hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution. Stakeholders who converged on 12 venues […]

“Let me begin by stating how privileged I am to be here at this unique gathering to honour the memory of recently departed leaders in the media. The roll call of these leading lights that have left us is a truly impressive one and it can be said without exaggeration that eternity has claimed a […]