Speech: "Let Us All Move Forward....."

Mugabe

(Being resignation speech made by Robert Mugabe)

Fellow Zimbabweans, I address you tonight on the back of a meeting I held today with the nation’s security forces command element.

Photonews: Robert Mugabe Hands Off Zimbabwean Presidency

Mugabe

U-Report: "Ekwueme Was The Stabilizing Factor In Nigeria’s Politics"–Ibori

Late Ekwueme

Reported by Tony Eluemunor

Chief James Onanefe Ibori has described the death of Dr. Alex Ekwueme as most shocking.  He said “though His Excellency, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, GCON, was a great leader, a national father-figure, a stabilizing factor in Nigerian politics, I Chief James Onanefe Ibori can never stop asking “what if”! 

News Release: The Ekwueme Family Announces Death Of Nigeria's Former Vice-president

Late Alex Ekwueme

The Ekwueme family regrets to announce the peaceful passing away of their patriarch, the former Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme GCON. The sad event occurred at The London Clinic at 10:00 pm on Sunday 19th November 2017.

Signed:

HRH. Prof. Laz Ekwueme
Igwe of Oko

U-Report: CNPP Hails Obiano's Victory, Commends INEC, Security Agencies

Reported By Willy Ezeugwu

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has hailed the reelection of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State in last Saturday's governorship election in the state and gave a thumb up to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a job well done.

Special Report: Offshore Trust Linked To Mandela

Late Mandela

Details about an offshore trust linked to former South African president Nelson Mandela have emerged from the Paradise Papers, a trove of financial records from the offshore law firm Appleby.

News Release: Tribute To Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), The Great Symbol of The Igbo Spirit!

Late Achebe

Chinualumogu  Achebe was born in 1938, in Ogidi, Anambra State of Igboland. He was reared in a Christian family, studied medicine and literature at the University of Ibadan. He worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company (NBC), where he rose to the rank of Director of External Broadcasting. He left the Services of the NBC in 1966, following the massacres of Igbos that led to the Biafra War. His novel, A Man of the People, was falsely believed to have implicated him in the Civil War. Indeed, Chinua was merely prophetic in that novel.

News Release: Understanding Intersociety’s Rights Campaign In Nigeria & Our Opposition To “No Election” Or “Vote & Die” Campaign In Anambra State

Human Rights campaigns around the world have no boundaries and are beyond municipal, regional and int’l legislative and executive policy restrictions. In other words, human rights campaigns are carried out in the entire 193 member-States of the UN, 46 trusteeship territories and territories of world’s 10 million Stateless persons. Defense of human rights is originally rooted in volunteerism, passion for humanity and selfless service to humanity. It is also not-for-profit activity.

Photonews: Nigeria Immigration Service Moves Against Atiku's Companies, Others

News Release: Falana, Ribadu For Summit On Corruption And Whistleblowing

Falana

Prominent human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana and pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu will on Tuesday headline a national summit on whistleblowing and the fight against corruption in Nigeria. 

Speech: "What The Zimbabwe Defence Forces Is Doing Is To Pacify....."

Army Chief Constantino Chinwenga(Photo Credit: PressTv)

(Being Speech by the Zimbabwean Military in respect of current situation in the country)

Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved to another level.

News Release: Final Appeal To Anambra Voters & Other Electoral Stakeholders

(Come out to vote! Ignore IPOB’s ‘Vote & Die’ threat and FG’s militarization of Anambra polity)

The recent threat of “vote and die” issued against the homeland Igbo population especially the citizens and residents of Anambra State including the State’s 2.15m registered voters by the Uche-Mefor deputy leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as well as the militarization of the poll security by Buhari led Federal Government must not be allowed to scare away Anambra voters, resulting in some say; “ federal executive desperation to rig the Poll and capture Anambra State at all costs”.

Open Letter: "We Need To Caution Against Politicizing The Future Of Our Children"

By Salihu Moh. Lukman (smlukman@gmail.com)

I resolved to write to Kaduna State APC Stakeholders in order to further stress my call for caution against politicizing the future of our children, which I posted on my facebook wall, hereby reproduced again:

News Release: The Gani Fawehinmi Award

Late Fawehinmi

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) hereby formally announce to, and invite, the general public to nominate deserving person or persons (Judges, Legal Practitioners, Scholars, Researchers, Journalists, Human Rights Workers and/or Registered Associations) for the resuscitated Gani Fawehinmi Signature Prize for the promotion of Human Rights and Social Justice in Nigeria.

Special Report: "Paradise Papers" On Outgoing President Of Liberia

President Ellen- Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has served as the president of Liberia since 2006. Before her presidency, Johnson Sirleaf was a director of Databank, a financial services provider based in the West African country of Ghana.

Speech: "The 2018 Budget Will Consolidate On The Achievements Of Previous Budgets"

President Buhari

(Being 2018 budget speech by President Muhammadu Buhari)

Protocols.

1. I am here to present 2018 Budget Proposals. Before presenting the Budget, let me thank all of you Distinguished and Honourable Members of the National Assembly, and indeed all Nigerians, for your support and prayers for my full recovery while I was on medical vacation.

News Report: A Massive Trove Of Data On Offshore Transactions Is Leaked

Courtesy: The Economist

In April 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) dropped a bombshell. Its articles about the “Panama Papers”, a leaked trove of documents which had been stolen from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm, sent shock waves round the world—felling the leaders of Pakistan and Iceland, leading to multiple arrests and pushing several countries to tighten laws related to offshore financial dealings. The revelations also caused a further hardening in public attitudes towards offshore finance, which had been souring since the global financial crisis.

Photonews: Nigeria's State Sustainability Index

Photonews: New AREFFN President And Secretary Brief The Media In Port Harcourt

New President of Association of Registered Freight Forwarders, Nigeria(AREFFN), Alhaji Bala Lawan Daura with New National Secretary, Comrade Chidi Anthony Opara(right) briefing Maritime reporters in Port Harcourt.

Article: The Imperativeness Of Change

By Livy-Elcon Emereonye

"It takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that." - Lewis Carroll

News Release: Ibori Condoles Bola Tinubu Over Loss of His First Son,

Ibori

Chief James Onanefe Ibori has condoled Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the loss of his first son, Babajide, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017.

News Release: President Buhari Condoles Ruling Party National Leader Over Death Of First Son

Tinubu

President Muhammadu Buhari is deeply grieved to learn of the passing away of Jide Tinubu, eldest son of the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu.