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As it stands today, there are several Nigerians parading fake academic credentials and are occupying various seats in Government and in the private sector pretending to be big men while in the garb of criminals. That is one of the reasons why we are not getting it right because the FORGERS are always making additional moves to cover their tracks. …

The recent spectacular implosion of Uche Nnaji’s ministerial career is not an anomaly; it is a symptom. It is the logical endpoint of a political culture that has divorced integrity from power and rewarded audacious falsehood over mundane truth. Nnaji, the now-former Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, did not merely fudge a date or exaggerate a grade. He allegedly …

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi’s 2027 presidential ambition is being shrouded in uncertainty as confusion continues to trail what platform he will contest the election. Obi, who contested for the nation’s top job in 2023 via the Labour Party, is a key member of the coalition of opposition figures plotting to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the next election. …

The presidency has released the full list of 175 convicts and former inmates granted presidential pardon and clemency by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last Thursday. The list released by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, over the weekend, contained the names of the beneficiaries and their offences. On the list are illegal miners, white-collar convicts, …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has declared a two-week warning strike. ASUU President, Chris Piwuna said the warning strike is a window for the government to conclude negotiations with the body. He disclosed this during a press conference at ASUU Headquarters at UniAbuja. Piwuna charged members of the body across Nigeria to withdraw their services effective midnight. He …

Economic Analyst Kalu Aja has stated that there is no greater demarketing of Nigeria than removing an elected governor and replacing him with a retired general while the highest court in the country maintains silence. Aja was reacting to a statement by Dave Umahi, the minister of works, who urged Nigerians to only speak positively about the country. In a …

Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication in the South-East, Josef Onoh, has called on his principal t to revoke the recent pardon granted to Maryam Sanda and some convicted drug traffickers. Last week, Tinubu approved the recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, granting clemency to 175 individuals, including capital offenders, drug convicts, …

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has issued a blistering critique of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent use of the presidential pardon power, asserting that the decision to grant clemency to individuals convicted of serious crimes has “undermined justice” and sent a dangerous signal of “complicity” to the nation. In a statement, Mr Abubakar declared that the pardons have “provoked outrage …

House of Representatives member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/Umuahia South Federal Constituency of Abia State, Obi Aguocha, has accused President Bola Tinubu of applying different standards of justice to the Igbo ethnic group compared to other regions of the country. Aguocha made this known during an interview on Arise Television News. He spoke against the backdrop of the continued detention of the …

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, is recuperating in his Abuja home after falling ill, and there are no plans by President Bola Tinubu to replace him, multiple sources in the Presidency confirmed on Sunday. Speaking with our correspondent, a senior official who preferred not to be named because he was not authorised to …