The decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct elections in all the states of the Federation in January 2011 except Anambra, Edo, Ondo and Rivers deserves commendation. The...
Communiqué issued at the end of the public tribunal on police abuses in Nigeria organized by network on police reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) in collaboration with National Human Rights Commission...
(Onitsha-Nigeria, August 26, 2010)- The attention of International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has been drawn to the reaction by the Nigeria Police Force High...
Nigeria is about to become the laughing stock of the international community if Prof. Jega’s advisers from the academia are allowed to have their way by foisting a supposedly “free...
Introduction: Following the so-called economic meltdown and dwindling revenue federal, state and local governments are currently engaged in a borrowing spree. Even though the loans are designed to...
The major reason political races in Nigeria are marked by high voltage violence is that occupants of political offices see themselves, and are seen, as lottery winners. In the public imagination,...
Once again, Nigerians are caught in the trap of asking, and seeking to answer, the wrong question. This time, the question has to do with Goodluck Jonathan: Should he, or shouldn’t he, run in...
We have seen the Statements by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice regarding the horrific rapes that occurred earlier this month in the...
Dear Mr. President: With a deep sense of responsibility, a heart of duty and an utmost concern for the future of this great nation of ours, I write you this letter to offer my profound opinion on...
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been drawn to a report on your website entitled "Farida Turns On Jonathan, Tells US Officials The President Is...
Folks as much as I am very optimistic about change and credible elections, I am not deaf nor blind to know that no FREE/FAIR elections can be conducted within 5months in any developing country.
The Stakeholders Forum on Lekki-Epe Expressway Expansion Project is a coalition of pressure groups agitating for the review of the proposed tolling of the Lekki-Epe Expressway.
A Man of the People: Although best known for his 1958 masterpiece, Things Fall Apart, about a simple yam farmer in tribal Nigeria, novelist Chinua Achebe is still writing about Africa a full half...
Maj. Debo Basorun (retd.) was the military press secretary to an ex-president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.). In this interview with NIYI ODEBODE, he opens up on his ordeals in the hands of the...
The news filtered in yesterday, 31st day of August 2010 to the effect that the controversial Police roadblocks nationwide, especially in the Southeast Zone were being dismantled.
We at Arik Air are deeply saddened to have read the recent report (“My Arik Air Flight Nightmare”) posted on Sahara Reporters by a passenger that was due to travel from Lagos-New York on...
LL.M. graduate Gideon Emcee Christian (’08) has been awarded a doctoral fellowship of $105,000 for the next three years from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC...
Amnesty International today challenged the credibility of data cited by a senior UN official investigating oil-impacted sites in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta.
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) consider as an embarrassment to Nigerians and the memories of the martyrs of the pro-democracy struggle the ill-advised calls for the release of Major Hamza Al-...
Dear Sir: I am sorry for using this medium to contact you. I searched in vain on your website for a U.K address to make my complaints but there was none. In the process I realised that your website...
Fire gutted the offices of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the early hours of Saturday August 28 2010.The cause of the fire was attributed to a minor electrical fault which sparked...