Category: Nigeria

The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has said it agrees with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on all the issues he raised on President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the forthcoming general elections. The first national spokesperson of CUPP, Imo Ugochinyere, made the position of […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday said the concerns raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo over President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged scheme to use the apparatus of state power to subjugate Nigerians, “undermine our democratic system, subvert the electoral process and perpetuate himself in office”, have vindicated its stand that the President is out for […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday night lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo for attacking him and his government. Obasanjo had compared the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration to that of the Abacha era. Reacting, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement said: “The sixteen-page letter the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari and […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday attacked President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of plotting to rig the general elections. Buhari is seeking re-election on the platform of his party, APC. The presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on February 16. In an open letter titled “Point for Concern and Action” which he distributed to […]

The Federal Government on Sunday said the verbal attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari and his ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, by the country’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was a sign of “corruption establishment” fighting back. A government spokesman said the “puerile attacks” were because the former leader could not control President Buhari. “It is […]

By Banji Ayoola The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the planned prosecution of the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, by the APC led Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari, as an alleged clandestine plot to behead the judiciary and emasculate it ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Indeed, it called the […]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that 25,685 babies would be born in Nigeria on New Year Day. UNICEF Nigeria’s Acting Representative, Pernille Ironside,  disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. He said that the figure placed the country’s babies as making […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has rekindled hope of a greater and more prosperous Nigeria. In his New Year message to Nigerians at home and in the diaspora, he assured that the New Year would be significant for the country. Following is the full text of the President’s New Year message: “Dear compatriots, It is my utmost […]

The United Nations has released a new report, which detailed the unimaginable horrors Nigerian migrants were being subjected from the moment they entered Libya and throughout their stay in that country. The report, released by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), […]

Human rights group, Amnesty International, has debunked the claim by the Nigerian military alleging the organisation is working to destabilise the country. Amnesty International Nigeria Chair, Auwal Rafsanjani, stated the position of the organisation on Monday at the unveiling of its report, “Harvest of Death: Three Years of Bloody Clashes Between Farmers and Herders”, at […]