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Nigeria should be marking its sixty years as an independent nation this Thursday, October 1 with fanfare and pageantry. The drums should rolled out so the citizens can do the dances for which they are known.   It is not quite so. There is apprehension instead jubilation; there  fear instead of cheer. Orders are coming […]

Solomon Babajide, Pastor/Administrator of Christ’s Ambassadors’ Ministries in Boston, Massachusetts is pleased to announce the second edition release of his book, YOU CAN MAKE A DETERMINED DIFFERENCE… In An Environment Of Competitiveness.   The book offers time-tested principles of wisdom for anyone seeking purpose, calling and relevance in today’s competitive world.   Its eight chapters […]

INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020   Fellow Nigerians   I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion of our country’s 60th independence Anniversary. As President, I […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday continued the blame game that has characterised his administration in blaming past leaders for Nigeria’s woes.   In his Independence Day speech marking Nigeria’s 60hth anniversary, Buhari applauded his administration but lampooned those who governed the country from 1999 to 2015, the year he became a civilian president.   As […]

Predictably, President Muhammadu Buhari like his predecessors, will used the yearly commemoration of the nation’s independence to trumpet the achievements of his administration over the last five years, with bogus claims that the country has made significant progress in various sectors of the economy. But given the terrible scenario playing out in the country, manifested […]

  Cash-strapped Nigeria has had its foreign reserves boosted following a London Commercial Court’s $200million security guarantee release for the stay of execution of Process and Industrial Development Limited’s (P&ID’s) claims against the country.   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said in a tweet at its verified handle @cenbank on Tuesday  that the release […]

The fight between Bayelsa and Rivers States over the ownership of Soku oil wells has flared up again, pitting the governors against each other.   The two sister states have been at each other’s throat since 2011, when the Soku oil fields in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area were ceded to Bayelsa, an action that Rivers […]

  Nigeria’s  two industrial unions on Monday shelved their planned nationwide strike over the recent hikes in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol.   The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress suspended their plan after a marathon meeting with the government at which government also shelved for wo weeks the new increases. […]

  The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.   Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he […]