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It’s Now a Game of Drama, Intrigues

The tide of reactions to the fuel subsidy bribery scandal involving Farouk Lawan is shifting against Femi Otedola with more people calling for his trial Drama, ...

PDP’s House of Discord

Wadata House, the National headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party, is boiling over a personality clash between Bamanga Tukur, National chairman and Olagunsoye Oyinlola, national ...

Education Must Be a Priority in the North Now

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, governor of Kano State, speaks to Chimezie Enyiocha, reporter/ researcher, and Kayode Makinde, senior special project executive, on the achievements recorded by ...

The Kwankwaso Education Agenda

In one year, the new Kano State government with Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as governor, has changed the face of Kano, especially in education which has ...

Showdown in Ekiti

Teachers under the umbrella of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in Ekiti State, defy a government order requiring them to take an evaluation examination For ...

Why They Are Angry

Opposition parties in Imo State want Rochas Okorocha, governor, to apologise to the people for non-performance The enthusiasm that greeted his emergence as governor of Imo ...

How Sincere Are They?

Leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, are neck-deep in plans to form an alliance in order to ...

How Honourable Is This Honourable?

The present bribe allegation against Farouk Lawan puts a question mark on his erstwhile ranking as a man of integrity It is his fourth time in ...

A Scandal Begets Another Scandal

The probe into the oil subsidy scandal by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee gives birth to another scandal allegedly involving Farouk Lawan, its ...

Mayhem in Imo State Communities

Cancellations of election results, killing and kidnapping of winners and aspirants characterise Ezeship tussles in many Imo State communities Gerry Okoli, Imo State commissioner for Local ...

Why PDP Bigwigs Don’t Want Ladoja Back

Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, former governor of Oyo State, speaks to Yinka Adeniran, reporter/researcher, on his experience one year after he left office and the controversy ...

Yet, Another Boko Haram Massacre

Blood flowed freely in Bauchi on Sunday, June 3, as a Boko Haram attack on Living Faith Church, in Yelwa area of Bauchi claimed many ...

Carnage on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Nearly 20 heavy duty vehicles burnt and many lives lost in multiple road accidents on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Horrific! This eight-letter word best captures the situation on ...

Northern Cities Under Siege

Kaduna, Zaria and Damaturu are still smouldering with smoke following another round of Boko Haram bombing of churches and reprisal attacks by Christians The June 17 ...

Buhari’s Temper Tantrums

To Buhari and those who think like him, it would be unthinkable for Jonathan to continue as president beyond 2015 Once again, the political tension ...

An Initiative that Pays

Measures introduced by Diezani Allison-Madueke, minister of Petroleum Resources, to strengthen the petroleum sector are now yielding dividends The past one year of the administration of ...

No Justice, No Peace in Ojukwu’s Family

Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu, first son of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, spoke to Sebastine Obasi, senior staff writer, Newswatch, on sundry issues surrounding the misunderstanding in ...

Our Case Against Debe Ojukwu

Ike Ojukwu an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and eldest son of Professor Joseph Ojukwu, the late Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s brother speaks with Bala Dan Abu, GM editorial, ...

A Bloody Week

Over 150 lives perish as DANA airline flight from Abuja to Lagos crashes into buildings on the outskirts of the city two minutes to landing Bob ...

Fire for Fire

Contending groups in the larger Ojukwu family make claims and counter claims over ownership of properties and the paternity of a member allegedly born out ...