Former President Goodluck Jonathan is back into the country. Jonathan was on a month’s trip to the United Kingdom and Côte d’Ivoire. It was gathered that the former President arrived at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Wednesday before heading for his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. An associate of the former President confirmed

If you're looking for a way to make your New Year's Eve party stand out, consider using Chiavari chairs. Chiavari chairs are a classic and elegant seating

Diezani who is reportedly in the second stage of cancer implored Tinubu to permit her to return to Nigeria to confess to her financial misconduct during her tenure. Diezani Madueke, a former Petroleum Minister under former President, Goodluck Jonathan, who fled to the United Kingdom due to fears of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he will never contest for the Presidency of the country again. This is coming amid claims of his returning to power, The former President said he would be diminishing himself by opting to pick a form and start lobbying people and campaigning for elections again. Jonathan said this in […]

Dr. Abduljhalil Tafawa Balewa, son of Nigeria’s first prime minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan would be returned to office in 2015 based on his good works, saying the sophistication of northern voters would shock many. In a session with newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, Abduljhalil, who holds a Ph.D in nuclear chemistry and spent 49 of hi 56 years outside the country, said President Jonathan has renewed confidence in the country through repair of infrastructure and empathy to northern interests and the dignity of women. He especially praised Dr. Jonathan’s affirmative action on women, which he said, has promoted women to the highest level of governance as never before. Dr. Tafawa-Balewa also dismissed the major opposition party in the country represented by the All Progressives Congress, APC, as doomed to failure, saying that it was full of failed PDP politicians. He nevertheless made an exception with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whom, he described as a good politician.

While speaking at the 20th anniversary of the death of Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, a retired major general and his deputy when he was military head of state from 1976-1979, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday morning, recounted how he was almost set free from Yola prisons commando-style by “international friends”. Recall that Obasanjo was in prison from 1995 to 1998 on allegations of coup plot against the military government of Sani Abacha. According to TheCable, the former president said when he was sent to prison, “some of my international friends sent a message that they were ready to storm the Yola prisons and rescue me in a helicopter and take me to safety in Cameroon, but I said no, if you do that I will not leave the prison”. Both Obasanjo and Yar’Adua were arrested in 1995 over what many considered a phantom coup allegation by Abacha. Obasanjo and Yar’Adua were given the death penalty but their sentences were committed to life imprisonment later. While Yar’Adua died in Abakaliki (allegedly poisoned) Obasanjo was released by the government of Abdulsalami Abubakar in 1998 and he went on to get elected twice as president between 1999 and 2007. Recounting how both of them were framed over the coup, Obasanjo said; “When I learnt that Shehu was first arrested I asked Abacha. He said he was not aware. I said it is not possible for a former No 2 to be arrested without the knowledge of the current No 1. Thereafter, Shehu was released,” he said. “Later, Shehu was arrested again. I was also arrested. We were detained at different locations and we never got to see again until we were sentenced. We thereafter met at Kirikiri maximum prisons. ”It was a mistake to allow us to be together again. There at Kirikiri, we discussed at length. We strategised on Nigeria. Unfortunately, he died in prison and he could not fulfill his dreams for the country in his lifetime.”

The Federal Polytechnic Kaltungo is looking for talented individuals to join their team! This is your chance to start a career in an exciting and educational

National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Adewole Adeyanju, has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan is qualified to run for a second term in 2015. Adeyanju also urged members of the party in the South-West to support Jonathan in his second term bid. The PDP national auditor, a recent replacement for Chief Bode Mustapha, said the president never signed any agreement with anyone that he would not contest in 2015. Adeyanju who spoke at a grand reception organised in his honour in Ilaro, Ogun State, by the PDP in the state, said justice would only be done in the country if all the zones were allowed to take their turns at the nation’s presidency one after the other, saying this would better the lot of the nation as every section would be assured of having a shot at the number one office at the appropriate time. He said, “Today, our leader in the PDP is President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces in Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. This man is from the South-South, the best thing we can do to sustain Nigeria is to take Nigeria turn-by-turn Nigeria limited. South-West has done two terms, South- South is there, and we should allow them to do two terms, that is how Nigeria can survive. “The President should be allowed to run for second term because he represents the South-South. Others can take their turn when it gets to their turn.” Adeyanju, a former member of Obasanjo’s faction of the party in the state, also expressed readiness to beg any aggrieved member in the interest of the unity of the party. He however said the new strategies adopted by the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to solve the crisis rocking the party had been yielding results. Meanwhile, ahead of the 2015 general elections, the PDP in Ogun State on Saturday warned Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria not to be deceived by the current division within the party in the state. The Ogun PDP said the ACN-led government in the state should discard the erroneous belief that it would have a smooth ride in the 2015 general elections. It said the party in Ogun State had been waxing stronger, contrary to the recent insinuation by Amosun that the PDP in the state was dead. The Ogun PDP Chairman, Chief Adebayo Dayo, who stated this during a grand reception organised in honour of Adeyanju said the opposition party would ensure that it displaced the ruling ACN in 2015.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have initiated a process which they hope would help the party back to power in 2019. The president met with party stakeholders on Wednesday night, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where they reviewed the party's performance at the just-concluded election, as well as the administration's contribution to the party since assuming the role of its national leader. The national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu, was absent at the meeting. He was said to be out of the country on what the party explained was a pre-arranged medical treatment. Nigerian Tribune gathered that participants at the meeting, including members of its National Executive Committee (NEC), National Working Committee (NWC), Board of Trustees (BoT), some PDP state governors and other party stakeholders, agreed to put its election loss behind and focus on how to return to power in the 2019 general election. It was learnt that they resolved to immediately begin the process of reorganising and rebuilding the party, which had witnessed internal upheaval in recent times. President Jonathan was said to have appealed to aggrieved individuals in the party to sheath their swords and cooperate in the effort to re-strategise and reposition the PDP to win the next general election. An inside source told the Nigerian Tribune on Thursday that the meeting, which began at 9.00 p.m., reached no decision on the propriety of the members of the NWC remaining in office. It was also learnt that some party leaders expressed disappointment over the mode of invitation to the meeting, saying that the selective option would not solve the party's crisis but may worsen it. According to one of the party leaders, who spoke in confidence with the Nigerian Tribune, "there is no end in sight to the crisis rocking the party. The national publicity secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, confirmed that the meeting was called to plan for the 2019 election. He denied that it was a crisis meeting, following the call by many prominent party members for the national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu, to resign. "No, it was not called to resolve any crisis. The (Ike) Ekweremadu committee has been set up and it is already working on that. Nobody is talking about crisis now. "The president called for the meeting to discuss how the party can be returned to power in 2019," he said.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan is back into the country. Jonathan was on a month’s trip to the United Kingdom and Côte d’Ivoire. It was gathered that the former President arrived at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Wednesday before heading for his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State. An associate of the former President confirmed

Leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Front, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo has said the name "Biafra", adopted by the then breakaway Eastern

A Nigerian news and information blog.

As the All Progressives Congress (APC) through its ongoing National Convention settles for who will fly the party’s flag in next year...

Reno Omokri, a sociopolitical activist and former presidential aide, has described the return of the old national anthem as a “giant step backward.”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has began its search for the party’s vice presidential candidate ahead of the 2015 general elections. According to report, a closed door stakeholders meeting chaired by a chieftain from Ondo State, was held behind closed doors last weekend in Ogun State and having been convinced that the presidential flagbearer will surely come from the North, APC is now searching for a vice-presidential candidate from the South in preparation for the race. According a report published in a national newspaper today, some of the names tabled for scrutiny with a view to being nominated include former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Edo State Governor Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, his Rivers and Imo state counterparts, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and Rochas Okorocha respectively as well as former governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Richard, Adeniyi Adebayo. An anonymous source at the meeting said, “if former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari eventually becomes the party’s presidential candidate, Tinubu will automatically pair with him because of their experiences and exposure as former rulers. “If any of the former Federal Capital Territory (FCT), minister, Mallam el-Rufai, incumbent Speaker, Hon. Tambuwal or Governor Lamido eventually picks the party’s ticket, any one among Fashola, Oshiomhole, Amaechi, Okorocha and Adebayo can be nominated for the vice presidential slot.”

Ibrahim Babangida also called IBB has returned to Nigeria on Friday June 10 after three-week medical trip to Germany and earlier this week news broke that he was dead. On arrival yesterday, the 74-year-old former Head of State was received by the Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, Engineer Abdulkadir Kure, Mohammed Babangida (son), Aisha Babangida (daughter), Umar Ndanusa and former federal permanent secretary, Idris Adamu Kuta. ''Despite unfounded rumour about the life of our national icon, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, we are grateful that it pleases Allah (SWT) to preserve his life and bring him back safely and healthier to continue in the good work of nation building,'' Governor Bello said. ''General Ibrahim Babangida remains one of the few leaders in this country that we still need around to tap from their wealth of experience and knowledge and we are grateful he is back and kicking like the old soldier he is. Your safe return has finally put a lie to the rumour and the evil machinations of those who are playing God. We are grateful to Allah (SWT) that He has silence them''.

Nigeria’s minister of youth development, Boni Haruna, led a special team of Federal Government aides to Adamawa State where he visited some of the victims

Two suicide bombers have carried out an attack in a market place in Kano, making two bombings in Nigeria this week with suspected links to Boko Haram.

The latent crisis in the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has become active again as two foremost leaders of the group have disagreed over the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the President-elect. Mr Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was on 1 March declared the winner of the 25 February election by INEC. But Afenifere, under its acting leader, Ayo Adebanjo, rejected the declaration, saying Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who came third, actually won the election. Afenifere had endorsed Mr Obi for the election, saying it is the turn of the Igbo people of the Nigerian...

Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro After months of deflecting what was very obvious, which most knew was going to happen one way or the other after all, former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro who at a time became a vigorous member of the opposition when he left the more socialist bent party AD then to join the conservatives PDP, is finally set to return to the party-the APC he poo-pooed and worked very had to destroy by all means before! Like they say, in Politics, there are no permanent enemies, just permanent interest. According to a very recent interview he granted Channels Television, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has stated that he would be declaring for the APC openly/publicly this weekend! The popular politician was at a time the Chairman (Mayor) of LILG (Lagos Island Local Government), he later became a Commissioner under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 1999 as the Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture. From being a commissioner he became a Senator in Lagos 2003 to 2007 when he ran under the party Alliance for Democracy (AD) then, it was while he was a Senator that he defected to the then ruling party the PDP. He ran for Governorship under the PDP in Lagos against Babatunde Raji Fashola of the APC and he lost! He was later appointed as the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana by President Yar' Adua. He was later appointed as the Minister of State for Defence in 2014, the position he held via which he used to help his friend, Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose to return as the Governor of Ekiti State against the incumbent then. So he has had quite an eventful trajectory, holding key positions of influence. Maybe now with this new and current move, he is gearing for something new and big again.