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If there was any doubt that President Goodluck Jonathan is clueless on how to confront the growing insecurity that is enveloping the country, his response to the kidnapping of 234 school girls by Boko Haram at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, in clearly unmistakable terms, depicts a government totally bereft of ideas and lacking in […]

There was no attack on Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State, as widely reported by some media on Saturday, Army spokesman and Coordinator of Military Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade has said. In a statement released on Saturday, Olukolade, said what actually happened was that, a distress call was received at about 2am and that Nigerian troops launched a counter-attack […]

My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed. At the last count the number of those killed is no less than 39 despite attempts by the international and local […]

President’s spokesman Ruben Abati has announced  another edition of the Presidential Media Chat. The media chat  will be broadcast live on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice of Nigeria (VON) at 7pm on Sunday 4th May. According to Abati, during the programme, […]

In furtherance of our study on grace, we will be looking at how grace gave us the divine exchange.Remember that last week, we learnt that grace is favour we did not earn, merit or deserve. It is based on the finished works of Jesus — not self-effort — and faith in his finished works gives […]

For the three days that the World Economic Forum will hold in Abuja, the Federal Government has ordered the closure of all government offices and schools so as to ensure free flow of traffic during this period. The forum is scheduled to hold between 7th and 9th May. It is also believed that with the […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has constituted a committee to ensure that the schoolgirls kidnapped from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State are rescued and reunited with their parent as soon as possible. According to a statement issued by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pious Anyim, on Friday, the committee would be saddled with […]

A High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, threw out an application that was filed by a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola, as the presiding judge, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo, ruled that the offences listed in the proof of evidence included stealing, obtaining money by false pretences and receiving stolen […]

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned Thursday’s bomb blast in Nyanya describing it as devastating and sad. CAN revealed its displeasure over the incidence in a statement it released on Friday, signed by Reverend Musa Asake, the association’s secretary general. “It is with shock and dismay that I received the news of last night […]

  President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned security chiefs to a special security meeting following Thursday’s bomb blast in Abuja. The ongoing meeting was made known to the public by the President’s Spokesman, Reuben Abati on his twitter page  “The meeting on-going at the Villa,” Abati tweeted. Obviously, the meeting will be to deliberate on other […]

For the first time in his eight years as governor of Lagos state, Mr. Babatunde Fashola received a dose of humiliation from civil servants, civil society groups, workers and students of the Lagos State University (LASU) as they all booed him, prevented the usual parades that characterises Workers Day celebration and prevented him from taking […]

The north is lagging behind in education, socially and in economic development. It was their choice and if the region was interested in promoting education among their people, they could have used the decades of hold on power to move the northern people ahead in education, socially and in economic development. But one area the […]