Tears dripped from my eyes as I watched President Goodluck Jonathan’s nationally televised address. His speech was short but momentous. He conceded defeat, and accepted the electoral victory of his political opponent, Muhammadu Buhari. In the lawless and unprincipled milieu of Nigerian politics, that concession of defeat by an incumbent president was unparalleled, almost, inconceivable. […]
The Nigerian Military has recaptured Gwoza, a Local Government Area of Borno State, a border town about 135 kilometres South-East of Maiduguri. Disclosing this in Abuja n Friday, the director of defence information, Major General Chris Olukolade, said, Gwoza was freed of the militants this morning. Olukolade further disclosed that Nigerian troops had engaged the […]
President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and his major rival in the March 28 presidential elections, General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday pledged to accept the results of the presidential elections without causing mayhem. The leading candidates are both locked currently behind closed doors in a […]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday swore in former minister of state for defense, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro as the minister of state for foreign affairs II. Obanikoro, it would be recalled faced stiff opposition to his ministerial nomination and eventual clearance by senators of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) who challenged his nomination following his […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded the appointment of Amiru Sanusi as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to the senate. Conveying his decision to the leadership of the senate through a letter read by the senate president David Mark on the floor of the senate on Thursday, the president asked the upper chamber […]
The Labour Party (LP), has on Wednesday announced the adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan for this year’s presidential election. The Party also said that it would not support a further postponement of the general The party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadri . A. Salam made this declarations in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital during its National […]
The ministerial screening of a former minister of state for defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has suffered another hitch following a row between senators over the screening exercise. It would be recalled that first attempt to screen Obanikoro last week ended in chaos and the screening had to be deferred, but the controversy continued on Wednesday […]