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The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has been rated high for entrenching transparency, good governance and accountability in its operations.  The National Accountability Watch Group (NAWG) said it came to this conclusion after a strategic assessment of NEDC's operations.    In an interim report signed by its Executive Director, Dr Okpe Joseph Okpe,...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to prevail on its Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, to retract 'unprovoked utterances at the floor of the Senate' against Governor Yahaya Bello and the people of Kogi state. The ruling party said it is on record through a video in circulation that...

Following what it describes as "unguarded utterances" about Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, the National Democratic Front (NDF) has called on the lawmaker representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, to quit the National Assembly.   Condemning Adeyemi's outburst, the group said the Senate is a hallowed place of lawmaking and must be protected from misfits such as...

The Coalition for Good Governance and Rule of Law (CGGRL) has advised Senator Smart Adeyemi to apologise to Chief Okezie Ikpeazu over his recent attacks targeted at the Abia State Governor.   The coalition described Sen. Adeyemi as an extremely and suitably opportunist in the Senate, tumbling with verbal diarrhea.  Recall that the lawmaker representing...

The immediate past Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai (rtd), has reiterated his sincere gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR for appointing him as Chief of Army Staff and further added that he discharged his responsibilities to the best of his ability. He also showered encomiums to Nigerians from various walks of life...

The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has filed a suit against Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking the immediate arrest and prosecution of Nigerian oil and gas mogul, Mr. Benedict Peters who is the present Chairman, Aiteo Group of Companies.  In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/239/2021 and filed at the Federal...

By Anjolaoluwa Folajimi For several years, late Chief Olusola Saraki, Waziri Ilorin reigned supreme in the Kwara State politics. From the second republic down to the present democratic dispensation, his name made or marred the political fortune of many aspirants in the State. His political clout transcend over three decades. The political legacy "Oloye" remained...

By Philip Agbese Femi Adesina, the presidential aide is a fantastic and affable fellow. Nothing else has glued me to him like bees on honey more than his present role as a presidential spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari. Adesina is one person it will take me a long time to...

By Oche Oche A story is told of Oedipus the King, a play written by Sophocles, a great Greek writer. Oracle of Apollos prophesied that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother, and so it came to be that Oedipus actually killed a man he met in the wilderness, but the...

An Ogun State High Court of Justice, holden  in Abeokuta, Nigeria, has slammed  N500,000 million damages against a U.K.-based blogger, Maureen  Badejo for libelous publications through her GIO TV against the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, and the church. The claimants are the Incorporated Trustees of Mountain...