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An impressive collection of organizations have come together to answer President Barack Obama’s call at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya, to advance entrepreneurship and economic growth around the world. Representatives of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) participated in a formal signing ceremony at the […]

Anytime the question of who is behind the abduction of Chibok girls is asked, I remember the poem, Mr. Nobody which we recited back then in primary school. Spare my memory; it’s been a while since I left primary school. With the risk of infringing on copyright, I narrate the poem, as I can still […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the type of people he wants as his ministers. He said such persons must possess qualities such as decency, patriotism and outstanding experience. He gave the description on Monday while assuring that his list of ministers will include a mix of technocrats and politicians. Buhari gave the description on “Good Morning […]

President Muhammadu Buhari pledged Monday in Abuja that his administration will take concrete actions to correct the neglect of research, science and technology by past governments.  Speaking after receiving a briefing on the activities of the Ministry of Science and Technology, President Buhari declared that his administration will dedicate more resources and energy to the […]

The ordinary Nigerian may not be a soldier or military strategist; but it is logical to question the innocuous claim by President Buhari that, the recent spike of suicide attacks by Boko Haram that has killed over 1000 Nigerians in the last two months alone were signs that the murderous sect was losing the battle […]

Haruna Baba Jauro has formally taken over from Barrister Calistus Nwabueze Obi as the Acting Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Isichei Osamgbi, spokesman for NIMASA has announced. The handover ceremony took place in the Agency on Monday.   While pledging his unreserved loyalty to the Acting DG, […]

Human right lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on Monday, said President Muhammadu Buhari was under pressure by some political forces in the All Progressives Congress to hijack his economic policies and ensure they are under the control of a few cabals. He spoke during the public presentation of a book entitled: “Economic diplomacy and Nigeria’s foreign […]

It is ironical that despite the raging public debate on whether or not to sustain a regulated fuel price regime, our government may have, regrettably, once more, inadvertently doubled the existing N50/litre subsidy.   The Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency’s template indicates that as at June/July 2015, the “subsidy free” market price of petrol hovered […]

Nigeria’s opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday described President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the United States of America as a journey in futility. But in a reaction Sunday evening, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) fired back at the PDP and its spokesman, Olisa Metuh claiming that the opposition party had constituted […]

An explosion Sunday morning, caused by a female suicide bomber, rocked the Damaturu Sunday Market in the Yobe State capital killing 14 people instantly and injuring many others, www.www.aso.rocks search engine has learnt. The figure of the injured has been put at over 50.   The female suicide bomber was said to have arrived the […]

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, has said that the claims by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Dr. Alex Otti, that there was an attempt to assasinate him in his Abuja residence was a lie. Ikpeazu maintained that Otti was merely trying to whip up sentiments to attract the sympathy of […]

As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space. They defined my entire life; dusk to dawn, all year-round. The phones buzzed non-stop, my email was permanently active; my twitter account received tons of messages per second.  The worst moments were those days when […]