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Jonathan Named International Person of the Year, Says Nigeria Shall Overcome Challenges
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was named International Persons of the Year, has stated that Nigeria will survive in 2016 regardless of the seeming problems before her. The African Sun Times, Africa’s number one and largest newspaper in America, had announced…
Stockbroker Jailed 7 Years for Fraudulent Sale of Shares
Justice Kudirat Jose of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on Monday, January 4, 2016 convicted and sentenced one Tajudeen Folaji to seven years imprisonment. The convict was found guilty on one count charge of unauthorized sale of shares and…
NLC Plans Mass Action Over Proposed N86 Per Litre ‘Propaganda’
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, of plotting to deregulate the prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) through propaganda. NLC said such move would be resisted by all means, as…
Alleged Illegal Seizure of Made in Nigeria Goods: Rights Group Petitions Buhari, Customs Boss, NASS, Others
A human rights group, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has petitioned the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service(NCS) over illegal seizure of made in Nigeria Goods and some bags of rice belonging to one Mr. Chinedu…
How 100 Were Burnt To Death In Nnewi
Industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra State, South-East Nigeria was thrown into mourning when an Industrial Gas Plant suddenly exploded with over 100 persons burnt to death. The explosion rocked the Inter Corp Oil limited (LPG Gas Plant), an subsidiary of…
2016 Budget: Buhari Insincere, Borrowing Like There’s No Tomorrow – FFK
With the presentation of the 2016 budget of the over N6 trillion before a joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has accused the President…
Senators Divided Over Fuel Scarcity, Petroleum Minister Summons
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator from Abia state, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, has asked the upper chambers of the National Assembly to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to explain the current scarcity of petrol across the country. The lawmaker argued that…
#Nnamdi Kanu: Why CD Backs pro-Biafra Protesters, Urges Ndigbo Youths to Shun Fr. Mbaka Ministry
With tension rising higher as a result of the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), which refused to be intimidated by threats by security forces in…
OPC Launches Online Radio, Magazine
Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has announced the launch of an Oodua Radio/Magazine, in honour of the matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, late Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo. Adams who said the launch took place in…
Biafra Protests in Nigeria Driven by Poverty, Neglect, Injustice – Daily Mail
Forty-five years after a brutal civil war, Nigeria is facing a new wave of protests for a separate Biafran state, driven by long-standing complaints about poverty, neglect and injustice. The impetus for the current agitation is not much different from…
I Didn’t Award Any $2Bn Arms Contract – Jonathan
Former Nigeri’s President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has denied awarding any  arms procurement contract in the range of $2 billion dollars while in office. Jonathan made this disclosure while reacting to the arms procurement scandal involving the former National Security Adviser,…
