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Abidjan Archbishop Calls for Release of Soro Supporters

The metropolitan archbishop of Abidjan, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa has on Monday evening asked Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara to pardon the supporters of Guillaume Soro, the former President of the Ivorian National Assembly, imprisoned last week for allegedly disturbing public order. “The peace we seek is also the path to reconciliation in fraternal communion. In the […]

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Rural Electrification Agency Gets new MD

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Rural Electrification Agency. Ahmad Salihijo, a renewable energy expert holds two masters degree in development studies and project planning and has acquired vast knowledge and experience in power sector development. He is an indigene of […]

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Burkina Faso Insecurity in the Context of Expanding Insurgency

While much attention has focused on Burkina’s north and, more recently, east, insecurity has been brewing in the country’s southwestern regions, bordering the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Ghana. In the aftermath of several high-profile attacks in the capital city of Ouagadougou between 2016 and 2018, events in the landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso […]

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President Buhari, Security Chiefs Strategise for 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the nation’s security agencies to establish peace in 2020. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas, gave this indication in Abuja while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of today’s Security Council meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. For this reason, he said the Security Council had […]

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After West Africa,Union of Central African States to Dump CFA Franc

Equatorial Guinea’s leader said the union of Central African states should consider changes to its French-backed currency after eight West African states last week agreed to reforms to their long-standing agreement with France. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, speaking at a joint press conference with Ivorian leader Alassane Ouattara, said that the current agreement between […]

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Dakuku: 49 Garlands to Golden Boy of Niger Delta

By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze According to one of the foremost Philosophers, John C. Maxwell, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”. While to Stephen Covey, ” Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out”. It is on the thinking of these […]

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EDITORIAL: Containing this Deepening National Division

Nigerians are entering the last year of the decade deeply divided with those supporting and opposing the status quo unrelenting in their entrenched positions.From the political elite to the economic operators,the differences are palpable and the gulf deepening.Is elite battle in anyway in the interest of the masses? The Buhari administration had posited that previous […]

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