National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff, stated that the fight for who occupies Aso Rock in Abuja in 2019 has already commenced. Sheriff stated this on Sunday while addressing newsmen in Jalingo, Taraba State. He also used the occasion to react to comments made last week by his media aide,…
President Goodluck Jonathan has held a closed-door meeting with the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The secret meeting took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. Both parties are meeting again for the second time after President Jonathan suspended Sanusi as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in February 2014. They…
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday, paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan for the first time since his ascension to the exalted Kano throne. The monarch was at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja, for the breaking of Ramadan fast with…
A mass protest has been planned for Thursday, May 22, 2014 to press for the release of the abducted schoolgirls by Boko Haram sect on April 15, 2014. The mostly teenage girls were kidnapped in their school by the terrorist group and are believed to be kept in Sambisa Forest in Borno State. Organisers of…
There appears to be a growing trend in this country. As I reflect on the last few weeks in our nation’s history, something about it seems hauntingly familiar, and it’s not merely the apparent unity of the Nigerian people in the face of the heinous kidnapping of our Chibok girls, or the involvement of the…
Former Minister of Aviation under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Femi Fani-Kayode, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a party he earlier dumped for the opposition, the All Progressives Congress, APC. The social critic and public affairs analyst met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, on Tuesday, where both politicians…
Premium Times reports that the Presidency has mounted pressure on the Senate to stop the probe of missing N8 trillion oil funds leaked to the public recently. The report is reproduced below; The Nigerian Senate has come under intense pressure from the presidency, the petroleum ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to abandon…