BREAKING NEWS: Aondoaka removed as Attorney General, now moved to Special Duties. Adetokunbo Kayode, former Minister of Labour and Productivity becomes Attorney General and Minister of Justice. Godsday Orubebe now becomes Minister of Labour and Productivity! LATEST NEWS: PRESS RELEASE - Ekiti State The Present Perennial Fuel Crisis: A Deliberate Creation Of Artificial Fuel Scarcity By The Federal Government (FG) To Force Deregulation Down The Throats Of Nigerians!!! Photo news from Ekiti Dipo Dina: Death threat letter fingers Gov Daniel in assassination? N3bn NERC Fraud: Owan, 6 Others Set For Trial PHOTO NEWS: Swedish Amabassador To Nigeria Visits Governor Mimiko Mimiko Inaugurates Rufus Giwa Polytechnic's Governing Council Former members of the Peoples Democratic Party Decamp Oni Testifies Before Electoral Tribunal FEATURE REPORTS: New Initiative For Water Provision Begins In Ekiti INTERVIEWS: Why I Shall Not Service Corruption and Fraud - Gov. Mimiko ONI IS DOING HIS BEST FOR EKITI - Prof. Ade Ajayi ESSAYS & ARTICLES: National Assembly and Electoral Reforms!!! Re: The Fallacies of a Columnist, Abimbola Agboluaje Ensure You Administer State Affairs from Bayelsa - Giwa-Amu Urges Goodluck Jonathan LETTERS: Letter from Festus Keyamo To The Executive Governor of Lagos State Ekiti NLC/TUC & Their Ill-Conceived Strike Action COLUMNS: Does Dora Akunyili Speak For Nigeria or Her Rich Friends Nigeria's Membership of the Exclusive Terror List SPORTS: Eagles' Ouster: Football Enthusiasts Intensify Calls For Amodu's Sack Nigeria Contains Zambia 5-4 at Nations Cup Quarter Final Indomitable Lions: Confirmed African champions

SHARPEDGENEWS / CROSSFIRE : WHERE IS PRESIDENT UMARU YARADUA?

COURTSEY: OSRC

After Math of Pogrom In Plateau State: National Security Adviser is Sacked.

Nigeria’s Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan on Monday sacked the National Security Adviser; NSA, General Abdullah Muktar Sarki. He was immediately replaced by his recurrent predecessor Aliyu Mohammed Gusau. Muktar was allegedly derelict, sneaky and sneachy. He rejected text messages...

How Cecilia Ibru Almost Lost $2Million to Impostor.

Published on March 10th, 2010

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has told an FCT high court in Abuja how a fake official of the anti-graft agency who was recently arrested...

FORMER BANKPHB CEO, ATUCHE'S PROPERTIES SEIZED IN LAGOS.

Published on March 10th, 2010

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday March 9 placed restraining seals on at least seven properties belonging to the former....

Jos crisis: Pro-Yoruba group to meet Northern Governors

Published on March 1st, 2010

A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Indigenes Foundation, YIF, has resolved to hold consultations with the governors of all the northern states, with a view to averting a recurrence of the recent ethno-religious riots that rocked Jos, Plateau State...

INTERVIEWS

Why I Shall Not Service Corruption and Fraud - Gov. MimikoPublished on January 22nd, 2010

Olusegun Rahman Abayomi Mimiko, medical doctor, grass root political mobilize two time commissioner for health, one time Secretary to State Government (SSG) and former Federal Minister of Housing and Urban Development is the judiciary installed Governor of Ondo State, South-West Nigeria.

He campaigned strongly for the position and maintained he won in fiercely contested state-wide election which he said he won. He said he was robbed of a deserved victory. He mobilized his supporters and successfully re-claimed his “popular” mandate. His formidable and strongly entrenched popular political machinery earned him the nickname, Iroko derived from the best known “king” of tropical woods.

His critics feel he promised too much than could be realistically delivered within the limit of time allotted himself. He has also been criticized for hub-nubbing with the same party that once desperately stole his mandate.. He recently went through our scrutiny at his office in Akure. He took questions from our Editor-In-Chief, OLADIMEJI ABITOGUN.

VIDEOS

THE MIMIKO INTERVIEW: Why I Shall Not Service Corruption and Fraud - Gov MimikoPublished on January 23rd, 2010

VIDEOS

GOP Response to State of the Union
Published on January 28th, 2010

SPORTS

Eagles’ Ouster: Football Enthusiasts Intensify Calls For Amodu’s Sack

Published on January 29th, 2010

Nigerian football fans on Friday in Abuja intensified calls for the sack of Super Eagles chief coach, Shaibu Amodu, following his team’s 0-1 loss to Ghana’s Black Stars. The Eagles lost to an Asamoah Gyan’s 21st minute goal in their 27th Africa Cup of Nations semi-final fixture in Luanda, Angola. A cross-section of the football enthusiasts interviewed shortly after the Nigerian senior national team lost said that Amodu was not competent enough to continue....

LIFE & STYLE

CBN DIRECTOR LOOSES WIFEPublished on March 8th, 2010

The death has occurred of PRINCESS ARAMIDE OLUFUNMILAYO OLAJUTOYE (JP) NRN, NRM, DIPFPP, DIPENT) Aged 55 a Retired Assistant Chief Nursing Officer & Head of ear, nose and throat Clinic, Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi-Araba, Lagos. Mrs. Olajutoye was Survived by Husband: Prince Anthony Olajutoye, Executive Director Legal Services, Central Bank of Nigeria, Children and grand children....