Students have joined Nigerian leaders, including ex-military leader Ibrahim Babangida to felicitate with President Muhammadu Buhari who will celebrate his 76th birthday on Monday. The National Association of Nigerian Students’ (NANS) National Public Relations Officer, Mr Bestman Okereafor, issued a birthday message on Sunday in Enugu. Okereafor said that Buhari, who is also the Chairman
Some Nigerian women marched peacefully Saturday against sexual harassment in markets, drawing attention to unspoken incidents of bullying, groping and name calling of their gender by menfolk. The march in Lagos took off from Ojuelegba and streamed to Yaba, where demonstrators to their surprise were still confronted, despite police presence, with the same abuse by
In one of my previous Article “The Capitulation of The Nigerian Federal Government Under Boko Haram” published By Sahara Reporters on 15th November 2012 , where I warned the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan not to succumb and not to fail to display spirit of vigilance and daring. I warned that administration not to
THE national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Uche Secondus, has accused the federal government of injecting crisis in states controlled by the PDP and forcing governors on the party’s platform to a deal ahead of the 2019 polls. In a statement on Wednesday, the opposition leader alleged that the federal government had entered into
THE spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, says the presidency no longer takes the utterances of former President Olusegun Obasanjo seriously. Shehu said this during an interactive session with reporters in Abuja on Wednesday. He said he was not in anyway surprised that the former president was reported to have maintained neutrality at a
The Pro Chancellor, Crawford University, Igbesa, Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe, on Wednesday said that Nigerians were spending a whooping N1 trillion annually to pursue university education abroad. Ibidapo-Obe, a former Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG), made the revelation in his address at the 10th Convocation of the faith-based Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun. The News Agency of
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with road transport unions to use commercial vehicles for movement of election personnel and materials on election days in 2019. The unions involved in the agreement are the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria (RTEAN),
This is sequence to my last article ,“The New Dimension; Cultural Revolution” published on 30th November, 2018 and it is the third of the Trilogy. The first being; “What is your Name Nigeria” and the second “The New Dimension Cultural Revolution” which has gone through reviews by comrades who are of the opinion that the
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has disclosed that 60 percent of looted funds is still hidden in Nigeria. He made this known on Wednesday in Abuja during an interactive session with journalists at the EFCC head office. He appealed to Nigerians to take advantage of government’s whistle
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has adopted the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as its consensus candidate for the 2019 presidential election. CUPP, the umbrella body of more than 45 major opposition parties, disclosed this in a statement issued by its National Spokesperson, Ikenga Ugochinyere, on Wednesday in Abuja. Ugochinyere said