COZA Pastor, Biodun Fatoyinbo Steps Down
The embattled Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, Monday morning stepped down as the senior pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, over alleged rape allegation by Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola. Pastor Fatoyinbo, in a post on his Instagram page on Monday, announced stepping down from the pulpit following the saga. Christian leaders around the world who feel […]
ECOWAS’ new currency will be called “Eco” and could replace the Naira
The Authority of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), alongside Heads of States and Governments, has adopted a flexible single currency ‘Eco’ as its trade currency to be issued by January 2020. This comes after the bloc’s 55th Ordinary Session which took place over the weekend in Abuja. The new currency could replace […]
Buhari’s Ruga insult
By Lasisi Olagunju On October 18, 1990, the United States, in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), predicted the end of a country which was behaving almost as Nigeria is behaving now. It said, “Yugoslavia will cease to function as a federal state within a year, and will probably dissolve within two. Economic reform will not […]
Soyinka and murderers of memory
By Festus Adebayo Two seemingly unconnected events occurred in the last two weeks, with very serious social implications for the polity. One was the Muhammadu Buhari government’s return of the teaching of history as a standalone subject in all basic and secondary schools across the country. The second was the ostensibly gossipy, “very minor” revelation […]
PDP Lambasts INEC Chairman Over False Claims…Says INEC Has Become Degraded Under Prof. Yakubu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) berates the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for claiming that INEC is the most improved service institution in the country, when in reality, it has become the most debased, degraded and corrupted institution, particularly with the rigging of the 2019 Presidential election. The PDP […]
Lere LGA: 2019 Quarterly Budget Performance Review
…Abubakar Buba Presents 108 Project for scrutiny …Citizen Engagement at the local government level is redefining governance -Ahmed Maiyaki …put aside party differences and work for the good of the council- Hon. Munirat Lere Local Government area Chairman, Honourable Abubakar Buba, has presented 108 Project implemented since he was sworn in one years ago. The […]
Kaduna Audit Report: EL-RUFAI MOST TRANSPARENT GOVERNOR–Sen. Kwari
Senator Suleiman Abdu Kwari representing Zone 1 senatorial District of Kaduna state has described Governor Nasir Elrufai’s administration as the most transparent in the entire history of the state. Making the remark in appreciation of the Kaduna State government’s initiative of publishing the audit reports of its 2018 budget, Senator Kwari said if all state […]
PDP Chair Berates Buhari,APC
…Urge Executive to stop hostility and ill treatment to Judiciary. Prince Secondus was speaking against the backdrop of President Buhari’s “continued show of hostile behaviour on the nation’s judiciary as exemplified in his unwarranted and unprovoked attacks on the former Chief Justice of the Federation CJN, Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen on Tuesday while hosting some […]
‘Pig-headed Economic Policies’: Emir Of Kano, Sanusi, Says Nigeria Is Headed To Bankruptcy
Muhammad Sanusi II, the emir of Kano, on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 accused President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration of implementing pig-headed economic policies that have put the country on the threshold of bankruptcy, advising the president to immediately end the fuel and electricity subsidy regimes and stabilize the economy or face imminent economic collapse. […]
ISLAMISATION AND FULANISATION; TOO LATE TO CRY.
By Charles Ogbu (Twitter @Realcharlesogbu) The warning from people like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Chief of Army staff, rtd general TY Danjuma and a host of others about Buhari’s Islamisation and Fulanisation agenda is a little too late, I’m afraid. Those warnings are as useless as a man warning his household about a supposed […]