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Ticket hoarding, racketeering, inflation, over crowded train…the hassles of Rigasa train station

It was a Sunday morning, and I needed to catch-up with the 10 a.m train from Kaduna to Abuja. I left for the...

Professor gunned down in Edo

  Professor Jerome Elusiyan of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has been shot dead by some unknown gunmen. He was...

State of the Nation: Nigeria returning to jackboot — Cardinal Olubunmi-Okogie

  …says nation’s democracy in danger   Octogenarian Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi-Okogie says he is worried that Nigeria is on the precipice and gradually...

Nigeria’s Justice Minister to DSS: Hands off, handover Sowore’s case

…directs immediate transfer of case file to his office   Amid smearing embarrassment and condemnation on the rearrest and trial of Omoyele Sowore...

Nigeria to commence issuance of visa on arrival to Africans January 2020 – Buhari

  Nigeria will commence issuing of visa on arrival to all holders of African passport, as from January 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari has...

For the third time, ex-Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji, aide face trial over N333m fraud

…Supreme Court orders retrial   Four years after he exited as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, was...

Nigeria’s power reform, privatization of Gencos, Discos a fraud – Senate President

    … wants Buhari to declare state of emergency in power sector     The electricity power reform of 2005 and the...

DSS invasion of court: It’s time you intervene, SERAP tells U.S. President Trump

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has reacted to the rearrest and physical assault of the Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore,...

Sowore: U.S. to Buhari: America is watching, the world is watching

… it’s unacceptable, U.S relations with Nigeria may be reassessed in light of these events   “The United States is watching and the...

Global evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke, bids the world good bye

  After criss-crossing the world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ particularly in Africa, German Pentecostal evangelist, 79-year-old Reinhard Bonnke, has passed on...

2020 governorship election: APC not losing Edo state, Oshiomhole assures

  The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has assured that the APC was not at risk of...

Few hours after his release, Sowore rearrested by DSS

Right in the courtroom, attempt by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Friday to rearrest Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore,...

Ex-VP Atiku makes surprise appearance in Senate

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, ex-Vice President and 2019 Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday sauntered into the Senate in Abuja....

Sowore: Soyinka calls FG’s disobedience of court orders thuggish, disdainful

For the umpteenth time, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he is incensed by the Federal Government’s continued disobedience of court orders and judgments. Alluding...

UPDATE: N7.65bn fraud: Court sentence Orji Kalu to 12 years in Prison

  Former Abia state governor Orji Uzor Kalu  has  been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in Prison for fraud by a Lagos...

Buhari, NASS may be on collision course as lawmakers raise 2020 budget to N10.6tn

  President Muhammadu Buhari and the House of Representatives may be on a collision course, as the lawmakers have upped the 2020 budget...