Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed the Commission would not be able to proceed with the February 14 and 28 Elections as scheduled. Jega disclosed this on Saturday after a meeting with 25 civil society groups in Abuja. He informed the meeting that the elections have to be…
Credible Elections Can Deal with Boko Haram – John Kerry
John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, has said that one of the best ways Nigeria can deal with the Boko Haram insurgency is to ensure the forthcoming February General elections hold on time, on schedule and is an improvement on the previous elections. Kerry stated this on Sunday while briefing journalists after a…
John Kerry Meeting Buhari
General Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate is right now in a meeting with John Kerry, the US Secretary of State at the Ikoyi residence of the American Consul general in Lagos. Members of the media are on standby waiting for a press conference to be addressed by the US Secretary of…
Photos: Faces At Lagos APC Primary
Pictures from the Lagos All Progressives Congress, APC, Primary Election held on Thursday, December 4.
Faces At President Jonathan’s Declaration
It is one event that most Nigerians have waited for with bated breath. While some eagerly looked forward to it, some others probably wished it never happened. But of course it happened on Tuesday, November 11 as President Goodluck Jonathan finally declared his intention to contest for a second term of office in 2015. Expectedly,…
Taming Hurricane Ebola and other Matters
The lead story in the coming edition of TELL is about the headache that the world carries at the moment. The burden that makes all governments and major organisations combine forces to fight a common threat: Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. Apart from being the worst outbreak since the virus was discovered in 1976, the problem…
Hurray, It’s A No-Bra Day!
Ordinarily, Mondays are very busy and serious days in most organizations. For some curious, yet obvious reasons, most organizations slate management meetings and other serious engagements on Mondays. Monday, October 13 was no different. For me, the day had all the trappings of the seriousness it required. First on my list was management meeting.…
Wole Soyinka: The Wages Of Impunity
The dancing obscenity of Shekau and his gang of psychopaths and child abductors, taunting the world, mocking the BRING BACK OUR GIRLS campaign on the internet, finally met its match in Nigeria to inaugurate the week of September 11 – most appropriately. Shekau’s danse macabre was surpassed by the unfurling of a political campaign banner…
Benjamin Adekunle Is Dead
Retired General Benjamin Adekunle, popularly known as the ‘Black Scorpion’ is dead. Folake, his wife, said Adekunle died on Saturday morning in Lagos. Born in June 1936 in Kaduna, Adekunle served in the Nigerian Army from 1958-1974. He served in the Congo crisis and the Nigeria civil war. After the Nigeria civil war broke out,…
Amaechi’s Uncle Murdered
Mr. Sabinus Odu, an uncle to Rotimi Amaechi, Rivers State governor, has been murdered. The murder of Odu, Vice Principal, Community Secondary School, Aluu, by suspected assassins earlier in the week, had thrown the people of Ubima in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State into mourning. The deceased, who was said to have engaged…
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