Posted by editor A former Lagos State governor and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally sued African Independent Television (AIT) for the sum of N150 billion over an alleged defamatory documentary being aired on the station. The decision of Tinubu to sue the station followed the refusal of AIT to meet the conditions set out in a letter by his lawyer Tunji Abayomi, to the broadcast station asking it to stop further airing of the documentary titled “Unmasking The Real Tinubu.” Mr. Tunji Abayomi, had few days ago written to the Daar Communications, demanding an apology for the contnt of the documentary and further airing by the AIT. The letter which also demanded for N20billion (Twenty Billion Naira) as cost of damage done to the reputation of its client failing which the client will sue the company, stated that the documentary was pre-occupied with political resentment and hatred neit...

The All Progressives Congress has said the Peoples Democratic Party’s opposition to the use of Card Readers during the oncoming elections has shown the “accuracy of the APC’s accusations” that the ruling party plans to either prevent the election from holding or to rig it. In a statement in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described as very curious the fact that the PDP “that rushed to the press” to deny the APC’s claims, “quickly turned around to confirm them.” The party said, ”At the press conference we addressed on Wednesday, which rattled the PDP and the President Goodluck Jonathan Administration so much, we listed the conditionalities of the PDP/Jonathan Administration for holding the election: ‘No PVC, No Card Reader, No Jega’ and the fact that the party wants the military deployed to harass and intimidate voters. “We mentioned ‘Card Readers’ at least three times during the press conference, and said they (PD...

Posted by editor The Paradigm - President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday revealed why he believes the over 250 kidnapped school girls from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, are still alive. Though the kidnapped schoolgirls have spent more than 300 days in captivity since they were abducted in April 14 last year during their West African Examination Council final papers, Mr. Jonathan’s claim that the girls were alive, well and still being kept by Boko Haram. The claim by Jonathan contradicted Abubakar Shekau’s statement in a video released in October 2014 to the media that he had married off the pupils. In a previous statement, the group’s leader had threatened to sell the girls as slave brides. However, Jonathan argued during an interview with the African Independent Television during a current affairs programme, Kaakaki that if the schoolgirls had been killed, the Boko Haram insurgents’ comman...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is planning to deposit huge amount of money into the bank account of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INCE)> Prof. Attahiru Jega and then blame Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for bribing the INEC Chair. During a press conference which held yesterday, the APC Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that the handwriting is clear: “This Administration knows it can never win in a free, fair and credible elections because of its appalling record in office. Nigerians want change through the ballot box, and they are determined to effect that change with their PVCs”, Alhaji  Mohammed said. There is a plot to transfer a humongous amount of money into the bank account of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and then claim that the money came from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC in order to justify the ongoing plan to sack Prof. Jega so he...

•Photo: How cancer attacks the lungs By Onche Odeh,  Head Education & Science  Experts are concerned that the prevalence and incidence of cancers among Nigerians is on the sharp rise. This is seen in the frequent cases of Breast, Cervix, Prostate, Colorectal among others cancers that have become regular in Nigerians hospitals. Putting a picture to this, Consultant Radiotherapist and Oncologist from the Radiotherapy Department of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (Luth) Idi-Araba, Lagos,  Dr. M. Y. M. Habeebu, said although the exact prevalence cancer in Nigeria is unknown because of lack of accurate statistics and under-reporting, results obtained from past and recent studies have a stealth rise in the cases of various kinds of cancers among Nigerians. A new trend is the rising incidence among children, as Habeebu disclosed that about 50 per cent of patients seeking medical attenti...

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  By Daniel Abia /  Snr Correspondent P/Harcourt Former President of Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. OCJ Okocha, has said that despite the crowd appeal the major opposition political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not have what it takes to win the presidential election on March 28. Okocha said that elections were not won by adorning the streets with posters and billboards but by entrenching the principles of democracy, which he said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had done in the past 16 years. Speaking on the political violence in Rivers State and across the country, the ex-NBA boss expressed disappointment that despite the peace accord signed by all the presidential candidates in Abuja and the governorship candidates in all the states, violence was still prevalent prior to the actual elections. “I will want to hope that the accord signed by the presidential candidates at Abuja and the one signed by three of the l...