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  I haven’t written in a while. I think in some ways I m suffering from writers block and cant seem to get my thoughts down in a semi-coherent way. However I shall try. I have been observing the build up to the 2015 Elections here in Nigeria and in my opinion the most important positions that we as Nigerians can vote for are the local and regional positions, by that I mean councilors, Local Government Chairmen, State Assembly members, National Assembly members and Governors. Why? In my simplistic reasoning, the person who is most likely to affect your life personally is on a state or local government level. Because the fact remains that in our country money from the Federal account is allocated to each state and by extension each Governor to run his state. These funds in addition to internally generated revenue could transform many states and help improve the standards of living of many Nigerians. My fellow Nigerians, the quest for a better Nigeria in my opinion starts at...

I haven’t written in a while. I think in some ways I m suffering from writers block and cant seem to get my thoughts down in a semi-coherent way. However I shall try. I have been observing the build up to the 2015 Elections here in Nigeria and in my opinion the most important positions that we as Nigerians can vote for are the local and regional positions, by that I mean councilors, Local Government Chairmen, State Assembly members, National Assembly members and Governors. Why? In my simplistic reasoning, the person who is most likely to affect your life personally is on a state or local government level. Because the fact remains that in our country money from the Federal account is allocated to each state and by extension each Governor to run his state. These funds in addition to internally generated revenue could transform many states and help improve the standards of living of many Nigerians. My fellow Nigerians, the quest for a better Nigeria in my opinion starts at the grassroots ...

Some chiefs and residents of Ilashe Ijesa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Thursday narrated how the monach of the town, Oba Adesina Anibijuwon, was killed by suspected members of Odua People’s Congress, who allegedly strangled him and left his corpse inside his residence which they set ablaze. Those who recovered his corpse from the building said the charred remains of Anibijuwon were taken to the mortuary at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Osogbo by Osun Ambulance Service at around 10.30pm on Wednesday. The ambulance that conveyed the remains of the monarch was said to have been escorted to the mortuary by armed policemen and some residents. The residents feared that those who killed him might want to seize his corpse. Some residents who also spoke with our correspondent said the officials of the state fire service, who came to put out the inferno, ran out of water. Some residents wondered why some chiefs in the tow...

The French hostage held for 11 months in Nigeria by the Boko Haram sect said he made his audacious run for freedom after his captor left a key in the door by mistake. Francis Collomp, speaking on the TF1 channel on Thursday, described how on the night of November 16 one of his captors entered the dungeon where he was kept to perform the ablutions required for Islamic prayer, but left the keys on the door. “While he was in the bathroom, very quietly I opened the closed door. I had all my things ready to leave and then I locked it (behind me),” AFP quoted the 63-year-old engineer as saying on TFI channel. “I ran into an alley towards the main road, then on the road I started walking quickly so that no one would notice me,” he said. After trekking for four to five kilometres, Collomp found a motorcycle taxi, which took him to a police station in Zaria, a nearby town. The Frenchman was abducted at gunpoint in Katsina State last December, and was held for nine months in ...

                                                                  The Yoruba movie industry is bereaved once again as one of its actresses, Falilat Okerede Oketayo has reportedly passed away. This is coming not long after they lost two other people. First it was the death of a 32-year-old Jane Atayero-Oluseye , followed closely by that of veteran actor, Pa Ola Ogungbe and now this one. Falilat who is a member of the Association of Theatre Arts Practitioner of Nigeria, ANTP, in Ogun State reportedly died on Tuesday at her residence in Sagamu, Ogun State. According to report, she died after a brief illness. She is survived by two children, an aged father a...

The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress has threatened to call a nationwide industrial action if the Federal Government failed to stop the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The NLC in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting in Kaduna, on Wednesday, said that it was unfortunate that the government had not taken the expected steps to stop the ongoing strike that had crippled academic activities in public universities. The President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar and the Acting General Secretary of the Congress, Mr. Chris Uyot, accused the Federal Government of sponsoring protests against ASUU instead of resolving the lingering crisis. They warned that the NLC would not hesitate to call out Nigerian workers to protest across the country if the present situation was not changed by the Federal Government. Omar and Uyot also stated that the NLC had taken a decision to intervene in the crisis rocking the universit...

  http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/national-confab-leads-disintegration-says-garba-nuj-president/#!prettyPhoto People have agitated for this; called for this because of some contentious issues raised. Perhaps, based on this, Mr. President decided to conceed and said let us talk. Those talking of a sovereign national conference should know, it is not possible because if you are talking of a sovereign national conference, the whole polity has to be dissolved and that is not acceptable to me as a person because this is a democracy we have fought very hard to achieve. So, it has to be either a national conference or dialogue as the president has called it. Some have said it is diversionary. I am surprised that even those that have been agitating for this national conference are now against it. Some say it is not timely because it is close to election but whatever it is depends on how you are able to arrange and plan. Nobody is praying that Ni...