For some party candidates in Nigeria, the six-week extension in the 2015 general election dates given by the Professor Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has become a blessing in disguise. Before now, for different reasons, they had kicked against any form of election postponement. One of the beneficiaries of such “blessings” is Governor…
This story is not meant to smite the image of the Murhi International Company management but to call the owner’s attention to what is currently worrying some residents of the area the gigantic edifice is located. Some years back, the Murhi Inernational complex used to be a side attraction for passersby in vehicles in the…
bHon. Adeola Olamilekan Solomon aka Yayi certainly has the most colourful campaign in this part of the country since the electioneering process began. Everywhere you go, the name on the lips of the people is ‘Yayi, Yayi.’ Indeed Hon. Solomon, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts in the Federal House of Representatives,…
If the report at our disposal is anything to go by, then the refusal of the leader of the major opposition party, the All Progressive Congress {APC} in Adamawa state, former vice-president Atiku Abubakar to sponsor the campaign organization of the governorship candidate of the party, Alhaji Jibrilla Mohammad Bindow, in the state has plunged…
You can call it dramatic, you can call it funny but that is exactly what happened between the immediate-past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and presently the Emir of Kano, His Royal Majesty, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. These two men are…
Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro popularly known as Koro is no doubt a popular name in the political circle of Nigeria today having risen through the rank and file. The America returnee was one time chairman of a local government and also a commissioner under the administration of immediate past governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed…
Few years back Golobal News carried a story on the duo of the DG of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Aruma Oteh and the former DG of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke where they were involved in hot exchange of words over their educational qualifications. The war of words involving them…
For people who do not know, the three-decade-old cold war that has been existing between former head of state who is also the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress {APC} in the March 28th 2015 Presidential and Federal Houses of Assembly elections, General Muhammadu Buhari {rtd} and his colleague in the army, former military “President”…
It’s no longer news that there is no love lost between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and his erstwhile godson President Goodluck Jonathan. Though nobody can really say what the problem between father and son is, those who are in the know claimed that Obasanjo because of who he is, doesn’t want anybody to surpass him…
This may not be the best of times for former deputy director general of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Lance Elekama. The astute businessman is reported to be broke for now and if care is not taken, he will completely run bankrupt. Sources close to the man affirmed that his businesses are no more vibrant as…
