CLON LESLEY

One word that has remained on the lips of many Nigerians in recent times is corruption. No discussion of a socio-political nature is ever complete without a mention of the word.

Mr. Godwin Obaseki has been sworn in as the Fifth democratically elected governor of Edo state in a ceremony held today in Benin the state capital.

Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, have congratulated United States President-elect Donald Trump on his historic victory in the just concluded presidential election.  

  US non governmental group, the American Black Group for Democracy has revealed  that the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s government plunged  $500Million (About N150Billion) into the failed Hillary Clinton electioneering campaign fund.

There are strong indications that a gale of defection will soon hit the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the South-West.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) announced it will host a victory parade in a North Carolina town in celebration of Donald Trump’s win, bringing white nationalism and the all-right movement to mainstream politics.

Prof. Wole Soyinka, has given an indication that he will tear up his Green Card on January 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the US.   Last week, Soyinka had, in annoyance with the possible victory of the Republican candidate, threatened to destroy the card. In an interview , the writer and human rights activist expressed resentment at Trump’s emergence, saying it spelt trouble for humanity.   Asked if he still intended to thrash the card, he said, “Come January 20, 2017; watch my WOLEXIT!” By WOLEXIT, he seemed to be referring to his final ‘exit’ from the US, playing on Brexit, the expression referring to Britain’s historical exit from the European Union. Although he said he was not too surprised that Trump won, he noted that his victory had brought an already teetering world closer to the precipice. He said, “The possibility (of Trump’s victory) was looming nearer and nearer, getting scarier and scarier. “As the...

  Italy has been rocked by a 6.6-magnitude earthquake, hitting the central Italian region already reeling from a series of destructive quakes.

  Popular Nollywood actor and comedian John Okafor, known as Mr. Ibu, has lent his support to the Buhari administration. Particularly in the recent onslaught against the judiciary.

Governor Nyesom Wike in the early hours of (Saturday) mobilised to stop alleged attempt by men of the Department of State Security, DSS and the Police to abduct a Judge at his number 35/84 B residence, Forces Avenue, Port Harcourt.

  An Election Observer Group, Election Monitor, is asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to pay attention to calls for the cancellation of the just concluded governorship election in Edo State.

The Chairman of Leadership Newspapers Group and former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Sam Nda-Isaiah has stated that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerians would have died if former President, Goodluck Jonathan didn’t concede defeat in the 2015 presidential election.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has filed a motion to withdraw the charge of criminal conspiracy against Senate President Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.

  The Financial Times UK has described the economic policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration as the ‘height of foolishness’.

A total of 184 civil servants we disciplined or their different roles in the padding of the 2016 budget. This was contained in Buhari’s authorised biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’, written by Prof. John Paden and presented to the public on Monday.

Minister of transportation and former governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has revealed reasons why governors demanded to share funds from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, instead of saving.

Nigerian federal government has accused western powers of blocking Nigeria’s effort to improve its electricity output through the use of coal.

The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), the militant group that has claimed responsibility for recent pipeline bombings in the Niger Delta, has issued an ultimatum to Nigerian military to leave the region and stop troubling citizens.

International Observer Groups such asthe American Observer team, the British Council and others from the Netherlands and Scotland and African Union observer team have expressed reservations about the conduct of the Edo governorship election held on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. The observers pointing out that they were denied entry into the collation centre and that security operatives at the polling units looked the other way while politicians and their agents induced voters with money. Ahmed Ansari, head of the African Union Observer Team, asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to improve on the functionality of the card readers as he noted that the machine did not work in some polling units in Edo State.He said the full report of the international observer groups on the Edo election would be submitted to the INEC and other important election stakeholders. “The turnout was quite impressive, but there were problems here and there. Anoth...

National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu is demanding the resignation of party chairman, John Oyegun.

The wife of Bayelsa state governor Dr. (Mrs) Rachael Seriake Dickson has been delivered of a set of quadruplets in a hospital in the United States of America.

Contrary to popular expectations, parts of Rivers state appear to be deserted as only a handful of business houses are open for operation today.

Scores of youths from Niger Delta in conjunction with Civil Liberty Organizations and other Voluntary Organizations have  taken to the streets of Port Harcourt to protest what they call "the victimization of former First Lady Patience Jonathan by EFCC".

Commercial Banks in Nigeria will close many of their "unprofitable branches" as the economic recession gets tougher.

The media in Azerbaijan claims Nigerian striker Victor Emenayo (23) who was recently signed by Azerbaijani top division side Shahdagh Qusar FK, is 17 years older than the age that is on his international passport.

24 year old Sheffield Wednesday player, Jeremy Helan, dubbed 'the next Patrice Evra' has walked away from the game in order to 'concentrate on religion'.

Former First Lady Patience Jonathan has described the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as ‘a big thief’ in an official statement in reaction to her frozen accounts.

Physical map showing Etche land An ethnic group refers to a group of people related or connected by race, tribe,customs and traditions and even language. People from an ethnic group are easily identified and distinguished from other groups by their mode of dressing and language.

  The Department of State Services, DSS, said some members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect were making plans to join the Army.

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the National Caretaker Committee of the party to hold the next national convention of the party in Abuja.

Federal government would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern village of Chibok in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.

When I warned the Nigerian people about what the APC represented and that, if given power, they would be the most reactionary, repressive, vindictive, insensitive, vicious, thin-skinned, paranoid, divisive and, worse of all, incompetent government in the history of Nigeria no-one listened.  

About Six farmers were reportedly killed in Godogodo village of Jemaa local government of Kaduna State on Saturday. The incident is coming two weeks after 11 persons were killed by suspected herdsmen in three villages including Gododogo in an early morning raid.

  Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after refusing to shake the hand of Israeli Or Sasson following the end of their bout, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.

  Ahmad Salkida Ahmad Salkida, the journalist that broadcast the Boko haram video that claimed that military airstrike killed the Chibok girls, has spoken out about the military declaring him wanted .

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described Modu Sheriff as a curse to PDP. He made this statement in reaction to a comment credited to a factionalnational chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff that he sent people to beg the former Borno Governor for claiming that he was a member of Boko Haram.

Nigerian Military dismisses Boko Haram’s claim Of Chibok Girls Killed in Airstrikes. The Defence authorities have described the claim by the Boko Haram that some of the Chibok girls were killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force as propaganda.

Following the press conference held in Abuja on friday, by the legal team, for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Worldwide, the Biafra agitator have sacked it’s legal team.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in Abuja on Friday said he was willing to enter into negotiation with the Federal Government to secure his release and end the political crisis which has continued to trail his continued incarceration.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday restated his administration’s commitment to the cleanup in Ogoniland when a received a delegation of Ogoni leaders in Abuja.

In the non-scandal that’s apparently rocking the political world, Malia Obama was spotted at Lollapalooza smoking  joint in a vide. An 18-year old NARC named Jerrdin Selwyn ran to the site to say that she saw Malia smoking pot during Bryson Tiller’s set. “I caught Malia smoking pot and I have the pictures to prove it,” Selwyn said. “You could smell the marijuana smoke. I saw some young guy hand her a cigarette and she took at least one hit on it. She had it in her hand for about one minute, then gave it back to him.” See Video:

MONICA MARES was 16 when she gave up her newborn son Caleb Peterson for adoption. She reconnected with him on Facebook when he was 19 years old and they met in person around Christmas last year.

The Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that banks and other financial institutions as well as multinationals must keep existing jobs and desist from sacking their workers, regardless of the current economic downturn. It held that banks and their employees must be ready to operate within the provisions of the Nigerian laws.

  President Muhammadu Buhari has backed House of Representative speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on the budget padding scandal. The Presidency on Tuesday said the  2016 budget, which President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law, was not padded.

Former state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers state Chief Godwin Ake is dead.

  Barely a month after he was sentenced to six years in jail for murder,Oscar Pistorius has been rushed to hospital after suffering injuries at his prison in South Africa.

Dr. Chris Ngige booed for defending Buhari in Enugu The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, was booed while trying to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments at a town hall meeting organised by the Federal Government for the South-East in Enugu on Monday.

According to Channels news, fifteen persons are feared dead and several others injured following a clash between herdsmen and farmers in Kodomun village of Adamawa State.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that there is no court order stopping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Convention scheduled for August 17, 2016 in Port Harcourt.

Niger Delta militant group, Adaka Boro Avengers, has said it cancelled its planned declaration of a Niger Delta Republic after appeals from Ijaw leaders, including ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

Reports have it that Kaiama town in Kolokuma/Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa state is locked down.

  The Rivers State Government says over forty nine thousand civil servants were captured in the just concluded biometric verification exercise. The Head of Service said the staff strength in the state civil service was initially put at over fifty seven thousand, adding that the difference after the verification exercise was over seven thousand

The Federal Government on Sunday said it will be training 500, 000 youths on agriculture and skill acquisition in a bid to provide food security

Scores of militants have been reportedly killed in a joint military operation code-named “Operation Awatse” launched in the Arepo area of Ogun State and some parts of Lagos. The operation is to flush out the suspected militants that have been terrorising residents in the area. There has been a lot of commotion. The Nigerian Air Force bombarded Fatola, in Arepo, which is the base of the militants, a resident confirmed. They are shelling the place with fighter jets. Some soldiers also surrounded the area to make sure that if any of the militants should run out, they would be gunned down. Another resident of Imushin area of Ogun state told Punch that the attack started sometime around 6pm on Thursday evening. “An aircraft had actually been surveying the creek for the past three days. But a second one joined this evening around 6pm. All we heard was a sudden bomb blast released from the second aircraft. "But it appeared that some of the militants had fled into the bush. There ar...

Chief Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday boasted that neither the former National Chairman of the party Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, the National Publicity Secretary of the party Olisah Metu, nor any other member of the Sheriff faction can stop

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have thrown Nigeria's 4x400m women's relay team out of next month's Olympic Games in Brazil.

The Indonesian government has carried out executions of four convicted drug traffickers. The attorney general's office had said earlier on Thursday that 14 people, including foreigners, would be executed "soon". The convicts were shot by firing squad at the Nusa Kambangan penal island shortly after midnight on Friday local time (1700 GMT on Thursday) amid pouring rain, according to TV reports.

Ask the average Nigerian what they think the country's biggest problems are, and you would hear things like corruption, poverty, unemployment, e.t.c. 

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State said on Wednesday he attended the peace meeting organised by the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, because of his commitment to peace and development of the state.