The Department of State Services (DSS) has broken its silence on the controversial stoppage of US-based Nigerian journalist, poet and author, Prof. Okey Ndibe, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, saying the incident was part of a routine security procedure rather than an arrest or detention. In a...
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What is popularly referred to as the “turn by turn” syndrome is a very Nigerian political affliction. It just requires that the political baton of leadership and pre-eminence be periodically passed from region to region, ethnicity to ethnicity and perhaps faith to faith. Perhaps it is now time to...
On the occasion of the 89th birthday of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, Nigeria must pause not merely to mark the passage of time in the man’s life, but to reflect on the rare phenomenon of a life that has become inseparable from the history of the nation. Some individuals...
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate suspension of the cashless payment system recently introduced across federal airports in Nigeria, citing concerns over passenger inconvenience and traffic congestion. The directive was one of the key decisions reached during Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Speaking after the meeting, the...
When Olusegun Obasanjo took over in 1976 from the slain Murtala Mohammed as Nigeria’s military Head of State, the regime was already committed as a matter of policy to transition power to an elected civilian administration in 1979. This was a big deal, alright, but not one over which...
Nigeria will mark a significant milestone in its aviation industry by receiving its first dry lease aircraft in almost 20 years. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, disclosed this in Wednesday while speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for Air Peace’s maintenance hangar at Murtala Muhammed International Airport...
The Department of State Services (DSS), has now delisted the name of Mr. Lanre Arogundade, from its watchlist. Arogundade, who is the Executive Director of the International Press Centre (IPC), had been on the watchlist of the secret Police for 40 years. Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times and President of...