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“Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques”- GOVT OF THE CAMEROUNS Oh Nigeria, how I feel sorry for you. They burn your cities, kill your citizens, rape your women, steal your children, pillage your lands, insult you openly, desecrate your holy places […]

For those of us who work or engage in businesses and earn wages, the requisite for earning wages is performance — the amount of work we put in during a set period. Thus, our wage is dependent on our input; and if we want to earn more, we have to work overtime. Philippians 4:19 says […]

As a means of stemming the effects of Nigeria’s current security challenges on the nation’s foreign relationships, President Goodluck Jonathan has held a meeting with former Secretary General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku. Held in the presidential villa, Aso Rock, Abuja on Friday, the meeting also had in attendance, members of the Presidential Advisory Council […]

I have a cloud of sadness within me as I speak.  It has to do with an absence, a non-event which, both as a product in itself and as the product’s fate, could easily stand – among similar testimonies – as symbolic of the mission of this gathering, and a number of others like it, […]

It is quite unsettling that the leaders of the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have decided to self-destruct. They are doing their best in putting the wrong foot forward in almost all their recent public outings. After the launch of their agenda document, the Road Map to a New Nigeria, many had expected […]

American weekly magazine TIME, has named the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance of Nigeria, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in its 2014 TIME 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Okonjo-Iweala was listed under the “Leaders” category alongside China’s President Xi Jinping; United States Secretary of State, […]

The rather combative riposte by the Presidency to the reckless, divisive and inflammatory memo by Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako, wherein he accused the Jonathan administration of committing genocide in the north, once again advertises in dramatic fashion, the absence of grace in the highest realms of governance; and this certainly cannot be in the national […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel the political rally being planned for him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, scheduled for Tuesday, saying the president cannot and should not be celebrating when over 200 school girls are missing. APC issued the caution in a statement issued […]

  Former Governor of Lagos State and chieftain of APC, Asiwaju Bola Hammed Tinubu has expressed  fears over the fairness of the forthcoming general elections in 2015, saying excessive love of power may serve as the bane of the exercise. Tinubu made the disclosure while delivering a speech at his investiture as Chancellor of Ladoke […]

The National Conference Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Matters has recommended that all elected and appointed office holders in the country who defect from their political parties to another be made to automatically lose their offices or seats. The committee equally recommended independent candidacy and unbundling of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, so […]

Preparatory to the governorship election in Ekiti State scheduled for 21st June, 2014, and that in Osun State fixed for 9th August, 2014, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently distributed the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) of voters duly registered in 2011. The Commission also conducted Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for the benefit of those […]

President Goodluck Jonathan is currently holding an expanded meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) with state governors, heads of the various security agencies and para-military organisations. The meeting commenced around 12 noon on Thursday, with President of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Nigeria and the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar and the […]