A UK based organization, The  International Lawyers  for Justice and Peace in Africa (TILJPA) has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over an alleged plot to use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to intimidate a former governor of Kogi State who was elected on the platform of the ANPP. The petition which was signed by Paul Smith alleged that the invitation of Prince Abubakar Audu by the EFCC f ...

                       (Pix Comrade Kolawole-Source Sahara Reporters) Human rights groups  in Osun State have  condoled  with the   government and  people ,in particular the family, friends ,associates of late human rights activist, Simon Abiodun Kolawole  who lost his life  in a ghastly motor accident on Sunday at Ikoro-Ekiti, on his way to visit his in-laws. It was learnt  that Comrade Kolawole who was in ...

I remember especially the rice, the stew-saturated and meat laced-rice that arrived our home shortly after dawn, as the special morning breaks into a toothless smile. They were borne on the bent heads of fellow kids or in the hands of beautiful maidens. We would suspend our work supervising the roasting goat. We would devour those as first course while awaiting our mothers’ which would come late, inspite of ...

By Rotimi Fashakin The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) heartily congratulates the Nigerian people for stoically wading through a very horrendous year, largely made so by the deliberate pauperization policy of the PDP-led ruling Federal government. A year that started with the crude and perilous forty-nine percent increase of petrol pump price by a very cruel and insensitive regime, eventually unveiled ...

“It is impossible to connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect the dots looking backwards.” Steve Jobs (1955-2011) Steve Jobs, a man whose creations are in the hands of at least over a billion people around the world, said these words as he told the story of his life during a commencement ceremony in Stanford in 2005.  He talked poignantly, almost presciently about how his decisions (dropping o ...

Were this question to be thrown at an essentialist of Pauline Christianity, the answer would be a predictable rehearsal of all the attributes that distinguish Jesus Christ such as having no servants but still called Master; no degree but still called Teacher; no army but was still feared by kings; won no military battles but still conquered power and authority. And so on and so forth. These are some of the ...

The Progressive Peoples Alliance PPA has called on the ruling party the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to advise its members in government to shun ostentation and lead by example. In a Christmas message signed by the National Chairman of PPA, Chief Sam Nkire, the party said PDP must ensure that most of Nigeria's resources is not used to service the welfare of the few people in government, leaving the rest of ...

Media practitioners in Kaduna state are in  a state shock as Editor of Zaria-based Al-Mizan, a Hausa language newspaper, Alhaji Musa Muhammad Awwal, along with one of his reporters, Aliyu Saleh, were abducted in the early hours of Monday, by men dressed in Army uniform. It reminds many of the dark days of the military.Reports said that the abductors numbering about 20, stormed the editor’s residence in Tudu ...

Chairman of Bi – Courtney Group, Wale Babalakion has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.Babalakin was arrested at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, where he has been on admission since his trial for money laundering was supposed to commence about three weeks ago. Sources within the commission said that Babalakin was arrested from his hospital bed following his re ...

(Pix:Bajoga:In the eye of the storm) By Danlami Nmodu Though the political anxiety over who might emerge as the deputy governor of Kaduna state has ended with the nomination Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga, his emergence is being trailed by a not too surprising disquiet.Governor Mukhtar Yero sent Bajoga's name for confirmation  as deputy governor on Monday. Reports from Kaduna  afterward said  some  people in Bajoga ...