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PLAGUED by years of interminable Islamist terrorism, banditry and other unbridled security challenges, Nigeria’s ability to feed its mammoth population is becoming highly questionable. Already, millions of Nigerians are unable to feed like they used to do. With insecurity deteriorating to an extraordinary level, there is a real threat of …

Dear President and General Buhari, I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since …

“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” Mr Buhari had said in reaction to attacks on state institutions and personnel in the South-east and South-south regions of Nigeria. The president’s statement has stirred controversy across …

The entire country and a global audience are rightly scandalised by the unfolding saga over Omoyele Sowore and the unruliness of the SSS and the government; but it is only a pattern, a reflection of the serial disregard of the Buhari regime for human rights and its battering of other …

Fellow Nigerians, the title of my epistle to you this week is an adaptation of the title of a sitcom which was produced and directed by the legendary Amaka Igwe of blessed memory. No other title better describes and encapsulates the total confusion, chaos and conflagration ongoing in the powerhouse …

Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured, Nigerian police said. Children as young as five were among those in chains at what was thought to be an Islamic school, officers said. …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has hailed the declaration by an election tribunal, of Ademola Adeleke as the governor-elect of Osun State, saying INEC’s earlier ruling against him was a “desperate attempt to change the will of the Osun people”. Mr Obasanjo also condemned those urging Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of …

Fellow Nigerians, please don’t get it wrong, I’m not a Judge and I’m not about to deliver a judgment in favour of the ‘suspended’ Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. I lack such capacity and jurisdiction. Besides, as the lawyers say, the matter is ‘sub judice’ i.e. under judicial consideration …

Also yesterday, the PDP faulted claims by INEC that it didn’t meet the condition required to inspect materials used for the presidential election materials as ordered by the tribunal. PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, told LEADERSHIP that the electoral commission did everything possible to frustrate them. While accusing the …

Citing security and logistics reasons, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has foreclosed the immediate release of the materials used for the February 23, 2019, presidential election to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for inspection. In an apparent reaction to the PDP’s allegation …

Finally, about 20 days after INEC declared Buhari the, winner of the presidential election, Atiku and the PDP last night filed their petition before the tribunal, praying that they be declared the winners of the presidential election instead Buhari and the APC. In the alternative, the two petitioners prayed the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been barred from investigating a private jet loaded with money on February 15, 2019, the eve of the aborted presidential and National Assembly elections, Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday. Our correspondent gathered that the plane which was billed to fly to Ilorin, Kwara …

We are not electing a pastor. We are electing a President. We are not seeking a messiah- we are seeking a man who understands the fundamentals of a modern society and has the requisite wherewithal to provide leadership to a nation. Nigerians are not looking for angels to vote for. …

Nigerians, just look at this matter and judge for yourselves how hypocritical your so called leaders are. 1) In 2015, the PDP government was ordered by the courts not to deploy the soldiers for 2015 elections. Here’s an excerpt from that order: “The armed forces have no role in elections. …

Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been captured on audio saying President Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money he can steal. The former Lagos Governor said this in an audio recording of an event that seemed to have taken place on February 14, …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a re-evaluation of the card readers expected to be used in the elections scheduled to hold on February 23 and March 9, 2019, respectively. Uche Secondus, the PDP National Chairman, made the request in a letter addressed to Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman …

Dele Momodu has joined other Nigerians in reacting to the postponement of elections by the Independent Nigeria Electoral Commission (INEC). The media personality who had earlier persuaded the electoral commission’s chairman to react to rumours of the postponement of elections, stated that he pities the pity the foreigners, media crew, …

Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal the immediate past speaker of the House of Representatives became the second person in the Fourth Republic to spend a full term of four years as Speaker of the House. He also became the first person in that office to defect from the party on …

The National Judicial Council (NJC) yesterday gave the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen and the one acting, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, a-week ultimatum to respond to the allegations of corruption and professional misconduct levelled against them. Due to the gravity of the allegations, the NJC abridged the time …

Lawyers in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, have alerted on the appointment of dead and retired judges as members of the recently sworn-in 250 election tribunal members. The group of concerned lawyers who declined being identified faulted the list of the recently sworn in 250-tribunal members as parading over …