AUDIO: Success-K, Don Fiasco & Ozee-Tha-B​oss - Give It To Me

Check out the latest collabo from three (3) Canadian based Nigerian artists [Success-K, Don Fiasco & Ozee-Tha-Boss] titled “Give It To Me” Watch out for the official video which was done few weeks back in Canada dropping soon. DOWNLOAD   BIO Success-K From Italy to Canada is one of the international artists who have revolutionalized music in African Canadian Entertainment. Success Okoro-Adima (otherwise known as...

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Youth Civil Society Coalition Condemns Jonathan Pardon of Alamieyeseigha

A coalition of youth civil society organizations has joined the condemnation of the pardon granted a number of Nigerians last week by President Goodluck Jonathan.  In a press statement on Friday, the group said that while the pardon was constitutional, the power to do so in this instance was reckless and contrary to the spirit of the constitution. “The youth join voices with millions of Nigeria in condemning the presidential pardon...

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Most Nigerians In America Want To Come Home – Busola Balogun, Social Worker

Every year Nigeria tops the list of countries whose nationals apply for the United States Diversity Visa. Practically every Nigerian youth is crazy about America. Even adults are not left out in this ambition to relocate to ‘God’s own country’ as as people refer to the US. But Olubusola Balogun, a Nigerian lady and social worker reveals that she would rather relocate to Nigeria with the next available flight if she could get a good job in...

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UniAbuja Is A Shame Not Befitting Of The FCT – Minister

The University of Abuja has been described as a shame not befitting of a tertiary institution in the nation’s capital, Minister of Education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmad Rufa’i has said. Speaking at a public hearing on a bill to provide for the establishment of the Federal University of Petroleum, Effurun; a bill to amend the Federal Polytechnic Act and a motion on the incessant students’ protest in the university at the National Assembly complex,...

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21 PDP Governors Boycott Party’s Grand Reconciliation Gathering

Twenty-one governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today boycotted what was billed as a grand reconciliation to bring together disaffected members of the party. In addition, the Senate President, Speaker and several prominent members of the party failed to turn up, making the event “a woeful failure” in the words of one of the party’s prominent members. The planned reconciliation took place at the International Conference Center...

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US Consulate: Foreigner Kidnapped In Lagos PM News, Lagos

A foreigner has been kidnapped in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, the US consulate said on Sunday, in an alert to American citizens in the city. The Consulate however did not provide the identity of the foreigner kidnapped and his nationality. “The US Consulate General in Lagos received a report that an expatriate was kidnapped on Victoria Island on Saturday, March 23 at approximately 11 pm,” the consulate spokeswoman said in a message...

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Benue Boils Again As Renewed Clash Claims Three Policemen, Two Farmers

At least three mobile policemen including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Mr. Azare Adamu and a police driver (names withheld) were at the weekend killed in a renewed crisis that erupted between Fulani herdsmen and Tiv farmers in Naka town of Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue state. A police sergeant identified as Mr. Mutari Ibrahim is currently missing and two farmers of the villagers were also murdered, just as five houses were set ablaze by the Fulani herdsmen. The renewed feud, which occurred in Angwuhagh village in...

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Truly, Jonathan Should Resign By Taopheeq Bamidele Rabiu

Although I am a regular follower of news and events in and about Nigeria on many fora including online social media, I seldom found any subject that warrant my comment as most issues and comments in recent times are all and about the same, even though they come in different fashions and from different and sometimes apparently conflicting avenues. Most events, news and comments/commentaries indicate that Nigeria is rapidly becoming (if indeed...

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Boko Haram Have Limited Knowledge Of Islam – Soyinka

Noble laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has lashed at members of Boko Haram, saying they have limited knowledge of Islamic religion. Speaking Monady in Port Harcourt at the opening of this year’s Rivers state education summit, organised by the state government Professor Soyinka said poor knowledge of the Koran was largely responsible for why Boko Haram should despise western education. According to him some of the greatest philosophers...

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Alamieyeseigha’s Pardon: Jonathan’s Contempt For Anti-Corruption Norms By Clement Nwankwo

Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) condemns the grant of Presidential pardon to ex-Bayelsa governor, D.S.P. Alamieyeseigha. While section 175(1) (a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, gives the President unlimited powers to grant pardon to convicted persons, PLAC believes that this power must be exercised responsibly and in the national interest. In the immediate case of Alamieyeseigha, this power has been...

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Wow: Governor Godswill Akpabio Admits Rigging Primary Elections in Akwa-Ibom | Watch the Video

In the past few weeks, the Akwa-Ibom state governor,Godswill Akpabio has been trending in the news for some gifts scandals involving state funds. Today, he makes a comeback to the headlines after confessing to manipulating the result of a 2007 Peoples Democratic Party senatorial primary election in the state. He admitted on live television to falsifying a senatorial election result and replacing the winner with the name of...

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Dear President Obama, Goodluck Jonathan Must Be Invited To Washington! By Pius Adesanmi

Dear President Barack Obama: Greetings. On behalf of the good citizens of the District of Columbia, who, in their infinite wisdom, entrusted me with the Office of the Mayor, I am writing to draw your attention to an issue of urgent municipal importance. Although my aides here in the Mayor’s Office are yet to crosscheck things with Mr. Jay Carney, your Press Secretary, after he issued a curious statement today, I have decided to be proactive...

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Femke Becomes Funke: Celebrating Mediocrity In Nigeria By Femke van Zeijl

"I used to think corruption was Nigeria’s biggest problem, but I’m starting to doubt that. Every time I probe into one of the many issues this country is encountering, at the core I find the same phenomenon: the widespread celebration of mediocrity. Unrebuked underachievement seems to be the rule in all facets of society. A governor building a single road during his entire tenure is revered like the next Messiah; an averagely talented author...

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Nigeria's Squandered Opportunity By Joel Brinkley-LA Times

Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan's office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used. No actual health-care facility nationwide had as many, and in fact a few still have none at all. But as soon as a Nigerian newspaper took a photo of the ambulances and published a story about them, they suddenly disappeared -- probably to an underground garage. Jonathan is president of Nigeria,...

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Suspected Boko Haram members arrested in Lagos with explosives

There was confusion in Lagos yesterday as men of the State Security Services, SSS, and operatives of the Operation Mesa (OP Mesa), a joint armed forces and police security unit, arrested two suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect with explosives at Ijora Badia area of the state. One of the suspects is from the North while other is a Chadian. Both were whisked away to Abuja by the SSS. When contacted, spokesperson for the 81 Division,...

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Boko Haram Violence in Maiduguri: School Teacher, Three Terrorists, Killed

Malam Kachalla, a school teacher at, Ruwan Zafi in Maiduguri, was shot dead this morning in the school by Boko Haram terrorists, the Joint Task Force (JTF), has said. In a statement signed by its spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, JTF said that three female students were also critically injured by bullets and were rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital by a JTF patrol which was attracted to the scene by the panicky...

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First Lady Money Launderer By Bayo Oluwasanmi

First Lady Dame Jonathan’s Naira spraying story sticks in my throat from trying to swallow the news of her money laundering at the Nigerian Law School, Bwari Campus, Abuja. According to Soni Akoji’s story in Saharareporters March 6, Mrs. Jonathan had made unscheduled visit to the Nigerian Law School, Bwari to see two adopted daughters. Mrs. Jonathan officially had gone to attend the convocation of graduates of her NGO, A. Arueba Foundation...

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