Washington D.C Faced with arrests and censorship by governments, kidnapped and murdered by terrorists and other non-state forces and sometimes compelled to report falsehoods by wealthy owners of private media, journalists face a more worrisome future “Paradoxically, in a time of seemingly unlimited access to information and new methods of content delivery, more and more…
Jonathan Appoints New Scribes
The last has not been heard of President Goodluck Jonathan’s last-minute decision to hire and fire political appointees. The latest are the appointments of Asabe Asmau Ahmed and Denzil Amagbe Kentebe as executive secretaries. While Ahmed is to oversee the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF, as its executive secretary, Kentebe on the other hand is the…
Actress Eniola Badmus Bags First Endorsement
Eniola Badmus, popular Nollywood actress has sealed her first endorsement deal with a new company called African Cable Television, ACTV. The actress was signed on as a brand ambassador with the multimedia company today, May 5 and she took to Instagram to share the news with her fans. Badmus featured in Jenifa, the popular film…
Itsekiri Tell Buhari to Redress Equity Problem in Amnesty Programme
Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect has been charged to address the challenge of equity in the amnesty programme. The call was made by Itsekiri Amnesty Beneficiaries, IAB, a group of people from that nationality, situate in Delta state. While congratulating the president-elect and his vice, Yemi Osibanjo, for their victory in the March 28 presidential election,…
APC Contests Kashamu’s election to the Senate in Ogun
The Ogun East senatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress APC, Dapo Abiodun, has dragged Buruji Kashamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP before the election tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, urging the court to declare that Kashamu did not win the election. Abiodun, through his counsel, Yusuf Ali, SAN, is contending in his petition, that…
Mediterranean Records Another Migrant Tragedy
While rescue efforts were still on going in the Mediterranean, to save the lives of scores of people involved in boat mishap, another tragedy has struck in that sea. Reports say dozens of migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean after another boat sank, this time south of Sicily. The Save the Children aid group, an…
Lagos Health Insurance Bill Awaits Governor’s Consent
The Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday, passed the state Health Insurance Bill into law. The law makers said the scheme applied to all residents of the state, including employees in the private and public sectors, the self-employed and the unemployed. The executive bill provides for setting up of an agency that would be…
Boko Haram: Why Military Solution Is Not Enough
Beyond the recent successes recorded by the Nigerian military against the Boko Haram sect, Dr. Raymond Gilpin, Academic Dean, Africa Center for Security Studies, U.S. Department of Defense, has said that one of the major positives coming out of Nigeria is the fact that Muhammadu Buhari, retired general and President-elect realises the need to address…
Jonathan vows to Subdue Boko Haram
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he would hand over to General Muhammadu Buhari, president-elect a country free of the hold of Boko Haram. He told delegates of heads of customs from West and Central Africa that the military is working hard to ensure that Sambisa forest, the only place left in the hold of…
Jonathan says PDP Will Bounce Back
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which lost the presidential election in the last exercise, will bounce back. The President, however, said that this will be realized if members of the PDP remain committed to the vision of its founding fathers and work very hard. The President made the…
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