Majority of Nigerians who participated in a recent survey by NOI Polls have asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to legally transfer power to his deputy while he recovers from a heart condition in Saudi Arabia. According to details of the poll, … read more
Nothing really changes the leadership of Nigeria except doubtful election and military coup. This is not to say that such military intervention changes anything in the country. It is nothing other than opportunism in a bid to maintain the status … read more
It was a single ruling, delivered by a single Judge, Daniel Abutu, of an Abuja Federal High Court. But by the time Nigerian newspapers were done with reporting it, any reader would be forgiven for admitting to intense bewilderment. Depending … read more
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan can exercise all the executive powers vested in the President of the Federal Republic in the absence of President Umaru Yar’adua by virtue of Section 5 of the Constitution, a Federal High Court in Abuja ruled … read more
The unknown gunmen, who on Tuesday kidnapped four expatriates at Owaza Junction, near Obehie in Abia State, on the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, are demanding N300 million, before their victims would be released. A source said yesterday that the kidnappers called … read more
Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka and prominent members of the civil society groups yesterday in Abuja took their protest to the National Assembly, demanding an immediate commencement of the process of impeaching President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who has been away … read more
The alleged attempt by a Nigerian man to detonate a bomb on a U.S.-bound flight has frayed Nigeria’s diplomatic ties with its number one buyer of oil: the U.S. Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe said that the country does not … read more
Gunmen Tuesday abducted three British and one Colombian nationals working for a Shell contractor as they travelled from Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state in the restive Niger Delta oil region, to Afam in South-east Abia state, the police … read more
Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s Vice-President, said recently that the country was “in the hands of God”. One thing is for sure — no one else is in charge. The prospect of Africa’s most populous nation, home to 150 million people, slipping … read more
Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN, yesterday, said that the over 150 million Nigerians who voted President Umaru Yar’Adua into office are not entitled to know his health status notwithstanding his abandonment of his duty post in … read more