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A System in Need of Reform
Ken Achufuna, a Nigerian lawyer in Britain, wants the federal government to sanitise the criminal justice system by creating more courts with specific functions as ...
Travails of Bomb Blast Survivors
Survivors of the Easter Day bomb blast in Kaduna, last week, and their relations relive their agony in the hospitals where the victims were taken ...
A Case of Double Jeopardy
Okada riders in the Ikeja area of Lagos State are losing money due to their restriction to fewer routes and also to the police who ...
Kidnapping is Gradually Dying – Agbaso
Jude Agbaso, deputy governor of Imo State, in an interview with Victor Ugborgu, senior staff writer, speaks on the challenge of kidnapping and the spate ...
Editorial Suite
The powers of the first lady and that of the wives of governors are enormous and they have used such to generate a lot of ...
Their Doubtful Charity Programmes
Allegations of lack of transparency and accountability surround the management of billions of Naira raised by past and present first ladies to execute their charity ...
...So, Jonathan Will Run in 2015 – Senator Aminu
Jibril Aminu, former Senator for the Adamawa Central Constituency, former minister of Education, Petroleum Resources and former Nigerian Ambassador to United States, didn’t get his ...
Fight Over Kickback Formula
Government officials at the Kaduna State Ministry of Science and Technology and the Due Process Office are at daggers drawn over the procedure for award ...
Winners Chapel’s Pastor in a N155 Million Fraud
Temi Eseyin, a lawyer and pastor with the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, is being tried by the disciplinary committee of the Nigerian Bar ...
Jonathan’s Game Plan for 2015
With a new People’s Democratic Party, PDP, leadership that is loyal to him, President Goodluck Jonathan takes a vantage position for the 2015 presidential race The ...
It’s Not Time Yet to Discuss 2015
Olisa Metu, new national publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, speaks to Tobs Agbaegbu, senior associate editor, and Haruna Salami, senior staff writer, ...
Atiku’s Political Future Still Bright
Garba Shehu, spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, speaks to Tobs Agbaegbu, senior associate editor, and Haruna Salami, senior staff writer, on the implication of the ...
Husbands for 1000 Divorcees
Kano State government sponsors the re-marriage of 1000 divorced women in the state as part of efforts to encourage family values and social harmony When Atine ...
Fresh Cracks on the Mended Wall
Rashidi Ladoja, former Oyo State governor, puts his plan to return again to the People’s Democratic Party in the state on hold as the plot ...
How the LGs Are Robbed of Funds
Most local governments in the country are on their death beds, no thanks to their state governors who rob them of funds allocated to them In ...
Why Local Governments Are Not Working
Shehu Abubakar, president of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Kaduna State chapter, speaks to Chimezie Enyiocha, reporter researcher, on the poor state ...
Where Is Our Money
Three South Eastern States-Imo, Abia and Ebonyi say money due to them from Oil wells in their territory’s locked up in a secret account and ...
Murder or Suicide?
The circumstances surrounding the death of Apagun Olumide, an architect and tourism expert, in Ogun State are still dark and foggy The circumstances surrounding the death ...
Time to Mend Broken Fences
Oyo State People’s Democratic Party takes steps to put its house in order to checkmate the influence of the ruling party in the state The political ...
Gowon Centre Is Most Guilty
Fatai Bello, executive secretary, Country Co-ordinating Mechanism, CCM, Nigeria, The Global Fund, speaks to Newswatch on the activities of the Fund in Nigeria. Excerpts: Newswatch: What ...
The Battle to Stop Oshiomhole
The line-up is formidable and the mission is to wrestle Edo State from the firm grips of Adams Oshiomhole, governor of the state. Can they ...
Azazi’s Winning Strategy Against Boko Haram
Recent arrests of Boko Haram kingpins and their confessional statements seem to have taken security agencies closer to victory against the sect For quite sometime now, ...
Our Prayers are Being Answered
Frank Odita, retired commissioner of police and principal consultant, Frankcom Limited, a security company, speaks with Haruna Salami, senior staff writer, and Elaigwu Sule, reporter/researcher, ...
On the Horns of a Dilemma
The Lagos State government is in a dilemma as to what to do with the report and recommendations of a 32-member committee it set up ...
Victims of Nature’s Anger
Many people die and many houses fall as windstorm ravages Lagos during an early morning rain, February 13 There was nothing ominous about it in the ...
Yoruba Leaders Unhappy
Eminent Yoruba leaders meet President Goodluck Jonathan with a list of their people grievances which include poor representation in the federal administration President Goodluck Jonathan, last ...
The Looting Spree In Ondo
An audit report just released on the finances of the Governor Olusegun Mimiko administration indicts virtually all ministries, parastatals and agencies as well as the ...
Ondo Money is Being Recklessly Stolen
Olaiya Oni, former chairman of the Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State, speaks to Demola Abimboye, principal associate editor, on the Report of the Auditor-General ...
Boko Vs Haram
Boko Haram, the Islamic sect that has killed hundreds of people through bomb and gun attacks, is now a house divided against itself ...
A Pastor’s Divine Mandate Against Witches
Helen Ukpabio, founder of Liberty Gospel Foundation Ministry, frees over 300 witches from the witchcraft world and tells them not to return there anymore ...
Calabar’s Troubled Stool
The controversial re-selection of Ekpo Okon Otu v, as Obong of Calabar, after his sacking by the High Court is generating a lot of dust ...
Our Roads Are Victims of Corruption
Ebenezer Meshida, a lecturer in the Department of Geology of the University of Lagos, came to limelight four years ago when he was pronounced winner ...
Subsidy Removal: Matters Arising (2)
Contrary to federal government’s claim, the massive daily crowds at the various rally centres across the country were not rented. It was a spontaneous expression ...
When Will It End? How Will It End?
A veto by two permanent members of the UN Security Council blocks foreign intervention to end the Syrian crisis, thus raising questions on the direction ...
Helping Nigerian Airlines Grow
Olisa Agbakoba, senior advocate of Nigeria and former president, Nigerian Bar Association, initiates a bill which, if passed by the National Assembly, will make it ...
Breaking CBN’s Forex Market Monopoly
Finance experts insist that the monopolistic control of the foreign exchange market by the Central Bank of Nigeria creates many problems for the national economy ...
Editorial Suite
Federal ministries, departments and parastatals are, indeed, citadels of corruption and financial irregularities. That is what the latest audit report released by the Office of ...
Fraud Unlimited
Contract splitting, inflation of contract sums and other forms of financial irregularities uncovered in many federal ministries, departments and parastatals For more ...
Bloodletting In Ebonyi
Multiple crises over land ownership in Ebonyi State leave nearly 200 people dead It is now calm in FOUR communities in Ebonyi ...
Subsidy Removal: Matters Arising (1)
I strongly believe the six-day nationwide strike and mass protests came at God’s fullness of time because they threw up some lessons and issues which ...
Will al-Mustapha Eventually Be Hanged?
A Lagos High Court sentences Hamza al-Mustapha to death by hanging but his lawyers have appealed the judgement The verdict of ...
Chukwuemeka Okwuosa
Chukwuemeka Okwuosa, legal practitioner, consultant, managing partner, Chancery Associates, 49, June 7. A native of Oguta, Oguta local government area, Imo State, he was educated ... Full story
Breaking News
Indicted Companies, Their Owners
Many highly placed Nigerians who own some of the companies indicted for fuel subsidy offences are likely to be arraigned in court this week The stage ...
Still a Killing Field
Fear and grief take the centre stage again in Jos after another round of crisis leading to the death of more than140 persons including two ...
Battle to Save LGs
A presidential committee headed by retired Justice Alfa Belgore suggests ways to salvage the nation’s local governments from the over bearing influence of state governors The ...
Twist in the Akpabio’s Murder Case
The family of the murdered Akpabio brothers rejects the setting up of a security committee to investigate the multiple murder incident and demands explanation for ...
Akwa Ibom Triumphs
Cross River State loses its bid to reclaim 76 oil wells which it lost through its declassification as a littoral state For Godswill Akpabio, governor of ...
Danger at the Door
Fear of religious war looms as Boko Haram sect targets churches and Christians for attacks T he ordination ceremony of Matthew Hassan Kukah as the Catholic ...
Danger at the Door
Fear of religious war looms as Boko Haram sect targets churches and Christians for attacks T he ordination ceremony of Matthew Hassan Kukah as the Catholic ...
Christians Have a Right to Defend Themselves
Gabriel Osu, monsignor and director of communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, speaks to Anthony Akaeze, assistant editor, on a number of issues relating to the ...
It’s Not a War Against Christians
Lateef Adegbite, secretary general, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, speaks to Dike Onwuamaeze, principal staff writer, and Ishaya Ibrahim, staff writer, on Boko Haram. Excerpts: Newswatch: ...
On the Rise Again
Cases of kidnapping are again on the increase in Imo State There is an upsurge in kidnapping in Imo State. The cases are much more than ...