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President Goodluck Jonathan has formally conveyed his decision to postpone the 2014 budget presentation to the National Assembly. The budget presentation was earlier scheduled to hold today, 19th November 2013, take place today (Tuesday), but the president wrote a letter to the National Assembly, saying the lower and upper chambers need to first harmonise the […]

Vulnerable women and youths in the violence torn Borno State in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria are the next in line to benefit from the special grants being being awarded by the business mogul, Aliko Dangote to empower the people so as to alleviate poverty at the grassroots. The exercise being coordinated by the Dangote […]

 Two schools, the African Church Model College and Sonmori Comprehensive High School, both in Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos State, on Monday, became the latest beneficiaries of the UBA Foundation, “Read Africa” initiative. The ‘Read Africa’ initiative is a UBA Foundation project, aimed at rekindling the reading culture of African youths through the donation of African […]

Self-acclaimed billionaire, Jimoh Ibrahim, may not be finding it easy with officials of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), as he was on Monday grilled for several hours by the Special Enforcement Unit of the government agency over allegations of evading the payment of tax totalling N6.8bn. The amount is the total sum accruing to the government from […]

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has received the report of the Tribunal of Enquiry on incidence of collapsed buildings in the state, stating that the tribunal was set up to unravel the reasons behind past collapses in order to avoid future occurrences. The governor, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja, the Lagos State […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday rejected the announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it would hold a supplementary election after declaring Saturday’s governorship poll in Anambra inconclusive. The party insisted that only total cancellation of the “grossly-tainted and widely-manipulated” election would be acceptable. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim […]Read More

There is certainly more to the postponement of President Goodluck Jonathan’s budget speech to the National Assembly, than meets the eye. Like an annual ritual that never fails, the postponement of the November 12, 2013 date when the President was scheduled to present the 2014 Appropriation Bill once again highlighted the frosty relationship between the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State inconclusive, after observing that the total number of cancelled votes was far more than the difference between the votes of highest-scoring and second-placed candidates. Candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Chief William Obiano polled 174,710 votes to come first while candidate […]

In ageless Africa, it is said that the heart that gives love is humane, but the one that demonstrates care, is simply godly.In simple terms, our ancestors, long ago, realised that while love is desirable, care, its nobler variant, is ideal.Luckily, our subject-Rt. Hon. Victor Onyekachi Ochei, has both virtues( love and care) in the […]

We have read with utter dismay the statement by World Bank Country Director, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly that 100 Million Nigerians are living in destitution or extreme poverty. This spurious claim is astonishing on a number of levels. First, it clearly contradicts the position of the World Bank on the level of poverty in Nigeria. During the […]

Not many people realise these days the manner in which the governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, was railroaded as the gubernatorial candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his state in 2007. The retired Rear Admiral was in his farm when his former boss in the military, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, sent […]

Do people shape society or does society shape people?” This is the question of the century and my answer is as follows. The sheer power of vision, creativity and strength that the human mind harbours and is capable of harnessing is truly remarkable. If properly channeled and developed it does not only have the potential […]