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By Oladipo Airenakho Pioneer Cadet of the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA), Retired Colonel Paul Ogbebor has placed the blame of Nigeria Army’s inability to defeat Boko Haram insurgency on President Goodluck Jonathan. As Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, he said President Goodluck Jonathan should by now have realized that the insecurity currently pervading parts of the country was no longer …

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, did not present his academic qualifications to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, even as he prepares for the 2015 presidential contest. Unlike his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, President Goodluck Jonathan, whose academic certificates were conspicously displayed by the commission upon presentation, Buhari’s credentials were visibly without trace …

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the names of the presidential candidates and their running mates who will contest next year’s elections. Of the 26 registered political parties in Nigeria, only 11 submitted names of candidates to run for the presidency. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, submitted the names of President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice, Namadi …

The immediate past Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. Maku has subsequently emerged the governorship candidate for APGA for the February 2015 governorship election in Nasarawa State. It would be recalled that Maku had been aggrieved over the outcome of the PDP’s guber primaries in the state …

Cameroon says its military has carried out the first round of air strikes against Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, after the group overran a military base, and attacked five villages. Army spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck, confirmed that about 1,000 militants attacked the villages, including Amchide, and seized the nearby Achigachia military base, where they raised their black flag. He …

On Sunday, PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, again restated that the crash of oil price will not ground the economy of the nation, adding that just like in previous slumps, the country would pull through. Speaking at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Area 1, Durumi, Abuja, on Sunday, the president said “we have talked about the drop in global price of oil. …

Report says, the governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos, Mr Jimi Agbaje on Sunday announced Alhaja Safurat Abdulkareem as his running mate for the 2015 election in the state. Agbaje made the announcement in a statement, signed by his Director of Publicity, Mr Felix Oboagwina. Abdulkareem was running mate to late PDP governorship candidate, Mr Funso Williams in 2003 …

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Governor of Delta State has, as one of his cardinal three point agenda, the now popular peace and security initiatives. Dr. Uduaghan believes that without peace and security no meaningful development can take place in Delta State. To this end he devoted his time as Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG) to tackling the security …

Immediate past minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has handed a seven-day ultimatum to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to correct irregularities recorded in the party’s governorship primary in the state. Maku, who gave the warning on Saturday while addressing youths in Wakama Village of Nasarawa-Eggon Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, disclosed that he had already written a petition …

Nosike Ogbuenyi, the special assistant on media to the FCT minister, Sen Bala Mohammed was on Christmas eve shot by suspected robbers in Abuja. The shooting occurred close to Dantata overhead bridge along the Umaru Yar’Adua Way at about 7pm when he was returning from work. The chief press secretary to FCT minister, Muhammad Hazat Sule, confirmed the incident. The …