WHY MIKE OKIRO, A RETIRED INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE IS UNSUITABLE TO HEAD EXTERNAL CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE AS CHAIRMAN OF POLICE...
A MAN and three members of his family were feared dead on Wednesday when an uncompleted three-storey building collapsed in Umuahia, Abia State.
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A SHIP containing suspected fake petrol imported by Oando Plc, was on Wednesday last week impounded by officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources...
Following the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday, and the deployment of over...
Northern elders, yesterday, broke their silence on the slamming of state of emergency on three states, describing the action of President Goodluck...The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has urged Justice B.O. Quadri of the Federal High Court, Gombe, to discountenance the opposition of...AN estimated 350,000 duly registered companies in Nigeria have failed to file their tax rendition to the Federal Inland Revenue Service ( FIRS), thus...
WHAT is the best response when facing a regional insurgency and your troops are fanning the flames with violent raids that leave as many civilians dead as...
The state of emergency declared Tuesday by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria is a clear signal to the country's large armed forces that it is time...Today's Quote
"Those who profess to favour freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will." Frederick Douglass
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. - Barack Obama
"The ball is now in your court...Election is still two years away...What is wrong in identifying now your candidates and beginning to mobilise support for them...Why can't you invade your homeland...Use your mobile telephones now to mobilise the people and guard democracy... the way Barrack Obama used the Internet technology to mobilise the youths to strengthen democracy... Mobilise the youths to guard the ballot boxes from start to finish...Defend the vote, nobody is going to do it for you..." Prof. Wole Soyinka. The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. - Benjamin Disraeli
"world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." – Albert Einstein
"The most immediate source of the disconnect between Nigeria’s wealth and its poverty is a failure of governance at all levels. Lack of transparency and accountability has eroded the legitimacy of the government and contributed to the rise of groups that embrace violence and reject the authority of the state – Mrs. Hilary Clinton...s that embrace violence and reject the authority of the state” – Mrs. Hilary Clinton
