The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the opposition to a series of public debates on issues of national development and project inspection, to compare achievements, instead of engaging in unconstructive criticism on the pages of newspapers. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, said, “President Goodluck Jonathan’s Democracy Day address to the nation had chronicled th ...

The Nigerian Navy personnel in the Maritime Guards Command of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) while on routine patrol of the Lagos anchorage area arrested a vessel, MT Floris carrying 185 tons (about over 200,000 litres) of suspected illegally refined Automative Gas Oil (AGO) on board. The 200 ton vessel with an 11 man crew was arrested in the course of routine checks when the ca ...

The slain former head of Forensic Unit, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr.  Abdullahi Muazu has been described by the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde as a consummate gentleman and professional. Lamorde made the tribute in a brief remark delivered on his behalf by the Deputy Director of Operations, Kabiru Shehu while handing over a posthumous award from the American Soc ...

Liberate – Delta People’s Movement condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the speech made by the Governor of Delta State Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan where he made a number of significant threats towards the opposition in the State, civil society activists and journalists.  Uduaghan was speaking at Democracy Day thanksgiving held at  Ekrejeta, Abraka, where he spoke of personally resisting being more firm wi ...

Students of University of Lagos have been ordered to vacate the campus today .Also, academic activities have been suspended.These actions have been taken on the heels of endless protest by the students since yesterday. This morning  students barricaded the 3rd Mainland Bridge  thus affecting traffic flow .Third Mainland Bridge is a major  businesses route in Nigeria’s commercial capital,Lagos. The students ...

Penultimate Tuesday, Niger State, my home state, repeated the bizarre political record in the annals of our national politics, possibly even of politics elsewhere, which it achieved back in June 2009; on both occasions its House of Assembly produced three speakers in all of only seven days. Talk of one day being a long time in politics! At the centre of it all on both occasions was Isa Kawu, the member repr ...

Kogi state Governor Idris Wada  has admonished his people to embrace dialogue as a means of  resolving grievances.He said this is preferred to anarchy or the rule of force.Wada made this remark in his Democracy Day statement issued by Jacob Edi, special Adviser media and strategy in Lokoja, the state capital. According to Wada , “here in Kogi state the government will continue to toe the path of dialogue, d ...

Shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in on May 29, 2011, I noted that his government should at best be a transitional regime and that unless something was done, and urgently too, Goodluck Jonathan would be the last president of Nigeria. One year into the administration, I am even more convinced about my proposition. My  conviction hinges on the mad struggle for 2015 that has enveloped the who ...

Citation at the Evening of Tributes in Memory of a Departed Comrade, Abuja, May 30, 2012 In his generation, not many stand out like him. He was honest, intelligent, humble, considerate, committed, loyal, dependable, and focused. Born 7th December 1968, he attended Mount Camel Secondary School, Ilorin, Kwara State College of Technology (now Kwara State Polytechnic), Ilorin, and the University of Lagos where ...

The timing of President   Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent attacks could not have been sharper. As with the   others before this one, his attacks reflect the ailments of successive   governments in the country. In the case of Jonathan administration, President   Obasanjo has directly and indirectly been pointing at a syndrome of drift,   corruption and denial. Many who have paid attention to   these attacks belie ...