Oronto Douglas, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Research, Documentation and Strategy, is dead. He was aged 49. A presidency source said Douglas passed on at the State House clinic at 4:58 a.m. Thursday. The presidential adviser is said to have been battling with cancer since 2008 and had from time to time…
Gay Rights: Obama Supports Ban On Conversion Therapy
US President Barack Obama has called for an end to psychiatric therapy treatments aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of gay, lesbian and trans-gender youth, on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. The move comes in response to an online petition posted on the White House website following the death of 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn,…
The Task Ahead Is Huge – Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect has declared that the task of rebuilding the country by his administration is huge, and will require the cooperation, support and understanding of all Nigerians, irrespective of party allegiances. Buhari who was in Yola on a thank-you visit to Adamawa State and to receive defectors from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party…
Football Supporters Congratulate Buhari
Rafiu Ladipo, President General of the Nigeria Football Supporters Association on Wednesday, congratulated the president-elect,Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the just concluded presidential election. While stressing that Buhari’s emergence was historic,given the support accorded to him across the country, Ladipo urged Buhari to use the tremendous goodwill shown to him by Nigerians to develop…
Google To Shutdown Buttercoin
Google Ventures and Y Combinator backed bitcoin exchange startup Buttercoin, is shutting down this month, after failing to raise new investment. According to a note on buttercoin website, the company states that it will be turning off its service on Friday, April 10, 2015 and asked its users to move their bitcoins to another service…
Google Launches Twitter Takeover Bid
There are reports that Google may launch a takeover bid for Twitter, the micro-blogging site whose share value is now put at $1bn. Google was identified as one of the two companies, believed to have contacted Twitter with “serious” interest. The micro-blogging site has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs as an adviser to spurn the advances.…
CAF Names Gabon AFCON 2017 Host
The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has confirmed that Gabon will host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. Issa Hayatou, CAF president, announced this on Wednesday at a CAF ceremony. Although Libya was earlier slated to host the competition, security concerns had led CAF to withdraw its hosting rights in August last year. CAF then…
Clark Protests U.S Commendation For Jega
Edwin Clark, a former Federal Commissioner for Information during the First Republic and South-South leader has condemned the award of commendation given to Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC by the U.S. Clark said the commendation was coming too soon and hasty since the Governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections…
Lagos Court Clears Ambode For Election
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday gave Akinwunmi Ambode the go ahead to run for Lagos State governorship. The court dismissed a suit seeking to stop the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Lagos, Ambode, from contesting the April 11 poll. Justice Mohammed Yunusa, the presiding judge, declared that the plaintiffs…
I Will Remain in PDP – David Mark
Reacting to allegations that he is planning to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC, David Mark, Senate President has described the allegation as an “unnecessary fabrication.” Some newspaper recently reported that the Senate President is already holding secret meetings with leaders of the APC in a bid to…
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