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After trading brickbats and pouring tantrums at each other over the Boko Haram insurgency, the unanimity and general consensus of purpose by government and opposition leaders, after last week’s expanded National Security Council meeting would seem a good gesture, but this would not in itself, end the insurgency that is threatening to envelop the entire […]

In pursuit of its Project Alpha plans, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced key appointments to drive its quest for industry leadership by 2015.  UBA’s Project Alpha is a 3-year road map of key transformation initiatives, designed to reinforce the Group’s strategic positioning and leverage its huge Africa presence to fully exploit the […]

Shareholders of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc Friday unanimously endorsed the bank’s annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December, 2013 just as they commended the board and management for sustaining the bank’s profitability, despite the challenging operating environment. Speaking at the bank’s Annual General Meeting, held at the Oriental Hotel, […]

Some of our brothers have turned the country upside down.  Fear stalks citizens like long lazy shadows.  Abuja, in particular, is as nervous as a virgin.  If it’s not Boko Haram today, then it’s Herdsmen who also happen to be experts in directing helicopter drop-offs and are equally smooth in their use of semi-automatic weapons.  […]

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) have slammed the Coordinating Minister of Education, Nyelsom Wike, for spreading falsehood about the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the bodies, saying his lies were aimed at turning Nigerians against the unions. The two unions, who spoke on their plights […]

President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has registered his condolence with the family of Nigeria’s vice president, Architect Namadi Sambo over the loss of his immediate younger brother, Yusuf Sambo who died in an auto crash on Sunday. Commiserating with Sambo through a statement issued on Monday, Oritsejafor said the loss […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on those in charge of the country’s affairs, led by President Goodluck Jonathan, to hold themselves to higher standards of conduct as a way of ensuring good governance and winning global respect for the country. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity […]

Mr. Peter Obi has called on the peoples of the world to return to God as the solution to many problems and vices plaguing humanity at the moment. Speaking  to journalists at the Vatican City  yesterday shortly after the canonisation of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II  which took place at St. Peter’s […]

Minister of Petroleum Resources and Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Board, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has described the recent award of term contracts for crude lifting, majorly to indigenous companies as part of Federal Government’s objective to encourage effective local participation in the oil and gas industry. Speaking to journalists over the weekend […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has affirmed that everyone responsible for the bomb blast at Nyanya Bus Park in Abuja which killed more than 75 people and injured many more will be hunted down and punished accordingly. The president made the affirmation while speaking at the 4th Presidential National Prayer Breakfast session in Abuja on Saturday. He […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the nation’s political leaders, including those of the opposition parties, for uniting against terrorism, irrespective of party affiliations. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Saturday, described the development as unprecedented in contemporary history, adding that such unity has restored the confidence reposed in the political […]

Since the unfortunate Nyanya Bus Park bomb blast which Boko Haram have claimed responsibility, residents have complained about the unnecessary hours spent on traffic occasioned by military checkpoint which gave the impression that they are an unwanted politically cursed appendage of Federal Capital Territory. The military checkpoints have reduced the normal four-lane traffic on Abuja-Keffi […]