•EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Olanipekun Olukoyede shook the headlines when he threatened to throw in the towel if the former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello wasn’t prosecuted for the alleged embezzlement of public funds to the tune of about N80.2 billion naira. In his words: “If ...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Over the weekend the internet was abuzz with the “news” that the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio had suddenly collapsed, rushed in an air ambulance and flown to London where he was admitted into the intensive care unit of an unnamed London hospital. They claimed he was battling f...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little and forgets even less. To survive is one thing. To matter is another. To matter for nearly two decades at the highest levels of public life is an […]
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Yesterday, Friday, December 5, 2025, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan again resorted to social media to claim incorrectly and misleadingly that His Excellency, the President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, had only just filed a multi-billion-naira defamation suit against her over her unf...
•Gov Eno hosting the National President of the NUJ, Comrade Alhassan Yahya Abdul When public discourse becomes clouded by misinformation, it becomes the duty of right-thinking citizens to set the record straight. The recent claim by Mr Mojeed Misikilu of the International Press Institute (IPI) alleging “media repression” in Akwa Ibom State und...
•Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State The recent report by the International Press Institute (IPI), Nigeria, authored by the Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times alleging an unfounded “Media Repression” in Akwa Ibom State under the leadership of His Excellency, Pastor Umo Eno, Ph.D, Governor of Akwa Ibom State is clearly misinforming, b...
•Trump and Ozigbo SIR: There is a video of me in 2018, when I first chaired Unusual Praise in Lagos — long before my foray into politics. That year, our leadership chose to dedicate the project to raising awareness and support for our brothers and sisters in Benue State, who had become victims of relentless […]
From 2009 till date and under the full administration of different democratically-elected presidents, killings, kidnapping, burning of homes, schools and churches, mass displacements, closure of schools, bandits ruling in captured territories and loss of economic livelihoods, among a litany of other woes, have largely characterised the landsca...
•Abubakar, Trump and Tinubu I have deliberately excused myself from the tumultuous issues of terrorism and “Guns-A-Blazing” vowed from President Donald Trump and the charge against Nigerian Government to curb insurgency and their minders as quickly as possible or face the US’s unimaginable military attacks. Earlier, Trump des...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan In the solemn business of national representation, a senator’s foremost calling is to amplify the voices of their people, legislate with diligence, and defend the public trust through measured engagement. Yet Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, freshly returned from a six-month suspension, seems determined to turn...

