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President Goodluck Jonathan will undertake a one-day official visit to Niamey, capital of Niger Republic on Tuesday to participate in an Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the presidency has announced. Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati made the announcement on Monday. […]

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has raised the alarm over the circulation of fake letters of authorisation purportedly from the NNPC to buy and/or sell Nigerian crude oil. The Corporation on Monday called on members of the public to be wary of persons with fraudulent intents circulating letters authorising the lifting […]

Another Nigerian arms deal has been botched By South African authorities, SAf newspaper, Rapport has reported. This time, a sum of $5.7million, which was going to be used to purchase arms from a Cape Town firm, Cerberus Risk Solutions, was intercepted by the Asset Forfeiture Unit of SA’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). However, unlike the […]

Predictably, President Goodluck Jonathan used the yearly commemoration of the nation’s independence to trumpet the achievements of his administration over the last four years, saying the country has made significant progress in various sectors of the economy. But given the terrible scenario playing out in the country, manifested in mass poverty, high corruption in government, […]

As the Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, handed out about 306 awards at the 2014 National Honours Award Ceremony in Abuja recently, critical newspaper editorials and other comments have trailed the process of selection of recipients who are mainly Nigerians. Yet this year’s national honours award was significant in many respects. Unlike in the […]

Former Vice President and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has said that strict adherence to the procedure of due diligence before entering into contractual agreements is an imperative for the evolution of a progressive. The APC presidential hopeful in a goodwill message on the occasion of the Eid-el-kabir said the […]

Indication that the Boko Haram sect may after all be correct over the missing Nigerian Air Force fighter jet has emerged with the video released on Thursday that showed the beheading of a man identified as the pilot of the missing. Also the video showed what looked like burnt parts of a plane, a further […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo does not look like a figure that any serious politician can jettison. This proof manifested on Friday when Senate President David Mark and a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, had separate closed-door meetings with the former President. The meetings lasted for more than two hours. Since […]

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that his decision to run for re-election in 2015 would depend on the greater need for Nigeria’s harmony, cohesion, unity, security, political stability, progress, equity, justice and fairness above any personal ambition or sectional agenda. In a personally signed statement, the President, who stated this in a Sallah message […]

1John 4:18   says “…There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” The word fear originates from the Greek word “phobos,” from where we get the word phobia. Our text says “fear hath torment” which means that “fear possesses torment.”  […]

Following the death of Oluremi Oyo, former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), prominent Nigerians have continued to mourn her, agreeing that she would be sorely missed. For President Goodluck Jonathan, the news was received with immense sadness. Jonathan described Oyo as one of the news of the most eminent Nigerian female […]

Last Wednesday, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, openly declared his interest in seeking the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for the 2015 presidential elections. In the next few days, precisely on 8th October, General Muhammadu Buhari will make a similar pronouncement about his 2015 ambitions. That both Northern leaders — veterans of the presidential contest […]