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The Big Rip-Off
How a Briton and his Nigerian accomplice used the plight of alleged kid witches in Akwa Ibom State to dupe the government, local and foreign ...
The Bayelsa Political Stalemate - Can the Judiciary Save Sylva?
With the failure of all efforts to resolve the political stalemate in Bayelsa State to pave the way for Timipre Sylva to run for second ...
The Fall of Anti-Corruption Czar
The inside story of why Farida Waziri, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, lost her job In the past few ...
Senator in The Dock
Mohammed Ali Ndume, serving senator from Borno State, appears in an Abuja Magistrate Court, charged with breach of trust and criminal intimidation ...
Hope Rising for Failed Bank Depositors
Depositors in failed banks closed down in 2006 can be rest assured that their deposits are redeemable. The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation has started the ...
Confessions of Undergraduate Kidnappers
Even as students, they own cars and live big on campus. They tell the sordid tales of their involvement in kidnapping, the money they make ...
The Street Is Their Home
They are in all the cities in Nigeria, and the streets where they live, eat, bathe and get recruited into criminal gangs remain their place ...
Awards of Controversy
The 2010 and 2011 National Honours for 354 beneficiaries is generating dust and condemnation over the inclusion of many undeserving persons President ...
Supreme Court Order on Election Tribunal Rulings
Governorship election tribunals in Benue and Akwa Ibom states are to repeat the trial of the petitions against the election of their incumbent governors ...
Sylva’s Unending Woes
Timipre Sylva, governor of Bayelsa State, loses the battle for his party’s governorship ticket and there are indications that this is only just the beginning ...
A Thorn in the Flesh of the Nation
Boko Haram, the deadly Islamic fundamentalist group in Nigeria, strikes again in Yobe State, killing more than 150 persons In Damaturu, the ...
What’s Wrong with Lagos PDP?
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State has always come out of every election since 1999 weaker and more factionalised. What really is wrong ...
Controversy Is Its Other Name
Six years after the introduction of post-University Matriculation Examination, questions are still being asked about its desirability Its birth was trailed ...
Crime Rate Still High in Nigeria
CLEEN Foundation releases a report on crime in Nigeria for 2010 and 2011 and identifies mobile phone handsets, money and food as items holding more ...
The Burden of Homelessness
Residents of Ago-Egun who lost their waterfront houses to demolition are battling to cope with their burden It was a bright ...
The Man Who Walks With God
He was born in a church and has spent all his life in the church premises working with God and for the good of humanity ...
Miracles Are Real
David Oyedepo, founder and presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church, also known as Winners Chapel, is not only famous for his ministerial work, but a ...
The Weekend Encounter That Changed Oyedepo
David Oyedepo planned to spend the weekend of May 1,1981 with his friend but God changed the plan in a dramatic way ...
Triumph Over Scandals and Controversies
Unlike many other Pentecostal Churches, Living Faith has maintained a good distance from scandals and controversies big enough to threaten the foundation of the church ...
It’s No to Dubious Money
At Living Faith, donations are screened to ensure that money and material things dubiously acquired do not find their way into the church ...
The Plot to Stop Sylva
Power brokers in Bayelsa State are unhappy with the performance of Timipre Sylva as governor and are determined to scuttle his second term bid ...
We’ve Had Enough of Sylva
Kime Engozu, a civil rights activist and one of the prominent Bayelsa State indigenes who fought for the creation of the state, speaks to Chris ...
Politically, Sylva Is In Charge of Bayelsa To Date
Nathan Egba, Bayelsa State commissioner for information, speaks to Chris Ajaero, deputy general editor, and Godfrey Azubike, staff writer, on the preparation of Timipre Sylva ...
Heartland of Kidnapping
Imo State is back again in the jaws of kidnappers and at least 10 cases are recorded weekly In Imo state, the ...
The Disaster Waiting to Happen
Many world cities are soon to suffer wide scale disasters and losses arising from climatic change Many cities in the world will ...
Editorial Suite
Written by Bala Dan Abu Thursday, 27 October 2011 Our cover story this week chronicles the criminal side of Shell’s operations in Nigeria's Niger Delta Petroleum ...
How Shell Promotes Criminal Gangs in Niger Delta
A report just published by Platform, a London-based oil and gas related NGO, indicts Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, of involvement in systematic killing and ...
The Race Against Sylva
The line-up for the February 11, 2012, governorship race in Bayelsa State is getting longer With about four months to the February 11, 2012, ...
A Salvo Fired by the Auditor-General
Auditor-General of the Federation names government parastatals and departments that have no audited accounts Samuel Orkura, auditor- general of the federation, has raised the ...
Signing for OYES
Twenty thousand unemployed youths find succour in OYES-Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme Rauf Aregbesola Jnr., son of the governor of Osun State, ...
Editorial Suite
The question which the assassination elicited on that fateful Sunday morning, when the news of his death broke has remained unanswered. Who killed Dele Giwa? ...
PROLOGUE: The Choice We Make
Death is every man’s destination and will come when it will come. But there is something to be said about a nation in which the ...
Dele Giwa
His Hurried Journey through Life He rose from obscurity to world prominence through hard work and courage. Everything seemed set for greater ...
Keeping the Family Name Aglow
Members of the family Dele Giwa left behind are in various parts of the world keeping the family name aglow Time may ...
Justice Denied
Investigations into the murder of Dele Giwa and the trial of suspects earlier arraigned have both ended as exercises in futility ...
His Words, Their Import
As a journalist, editor and columnist, Dele Giwa wrote incisive articles and reports that brought him fame and earned him considerable following of readers ...
What Dele Giwa Taught Me
Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, former managing director of Daily Times, and co-author of Born to Run, a biography of the late Dele Giwa, speaks to Tobs Agbaegbu, ...
Like a Bad Dream
Everything that happens in life must have happened before. A friend had died before; a father had died before; a brother had died before. Still ...
Dying to Live
Perhaps, it was not paradoxical that he died in a most controversial way. After death, Giwa did not cease to excite more controversies. Who killed ...
Ondo’s Wasted Billions
The government of Olusegun Mimiko, governor of Ondo State, is in the eye of the storm for its inability to make a meaningful impact in ...
Jostling for NDDC’s Big Jobs
Several bigwigs, including an ex-senator and former governorship aspirants line up for appointment into the Niger Delta Development Commission’s top management and board positions ...
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 ...