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In The Spotlight

Undiluted consumer reports directly filed by citizens/consumers of goods and services about their experiences.
Coverage of the Nigerian Election in 2011. News, articles, reports and commentaries.
Coverage of the global financial crisis. News, articles and opinion pieces.

Columnists

Baba Sala needs no introduction unless you came around in the age iPods, iTunes, and music files. The dinosaurs among us who are more at home with LP records will remember him. He is one of Nigeria...
 “Everything will fade... seeing and hearing, but first of all laughter." – Wolfgang Hildesheimer   While preparing to interview Chika Unigwe for SaharaTV, I read again,...
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan extended the charade that is Nigeria’s feeble, failing fight against anarchy by replacing Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim with a new man named M....

Cartoons

Documents

Commentary

Remember Reuben - By Dele Momodu “Not every journalist begins his career with an entrée in the nature of a bang. Journalistic careers tend to take a long, and windy route of much...
President Jonathan is well aware Nigerians do not trust him. Nobody would buy a second-hand car from him. If his words are a currency, it certainly is counterfeit money. Mr Rueben Abati and co. in...
We continue our detailed review of the 2012 Budget proposals today looking closely at the amounts earmarked for the office of the NSA, the SSS, and the NIA. Our objective is to appreciate the huge...
If you ask me; na who I go ask? The matter wey we see so, e tay wey e start. No be me go talk am, e heavy for mouth. If you ask me…The matter for ground…Eh! Na who I go ask? Omawumi If...
Once again let me plead that I am writing this article as Joe Igbokwe, a native of Uruagu Nnewi in Anambra State , Nigeria and I speak strictly for myself only. I am 55 years old and a 1985 graduate...

Press Releases

Rather than offer any reasonable solutions to the lingering security challenges bloodily confronting the nation, the recent confounding and irritating statement made by Alhaji Aliko Mohammed,...
Penultimate week, our party (ACN, Kwara) issued a statement dismissing what has become the unsavoury borrowing habit of the PDP-led government in Kwara State without commensurate execution of...
I, Festus Keyamo, issue this Press Statement as the Lead Prosecutor in this case and on my behalf. The Commission may also issue its statement later.
It has come to our attention that some media houses are alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan was "defeated" by President Yayi Boni of Benin Republic in the “contest” to...
Dear Reuben Abati:  I read your cleverly written letter to me regarding our latest report on President Goodluck Jonathan's junket to Ethiopia. In writing what purports to be a rejoinder,...

Interviews

In an interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe supports fuel-subsidy protests and says that Nigeria's unrest can be eased by better, less-corrupt leaders.
As more condemnations continue to trail the Federal Government’s removal of the subsidy on fuel, the first Vice President of Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Blessing Emonena Ukiri, has said he is...
As Nigerians from all walks of life gear up for the beginning of the “mother of all protests” on Monday, January 9, 2012, over increase in fuel price, journalist and author of Time to...

Letters

It was with a rude shock that the news of  the death sentence passed on  Al- Mustapha who was found guilty over the death of Alhaja  Kudirat Abiola came to many, one expects that in...
My brother Willie: GEJ is the current President of Nigeria so all bucks stop on him. I never supported him as a Presidential candidate in this last election because I was not convinced on his...
N280 million for two bulletproof Mercedes Benz saloon 600 E Guard at N140 million each