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A new and provocative book titled Nigeria is Negotiable has blamed Nigeria’s leaders for the country’s woes.  Written by journalist and rights activist, Chido Onumah, the book is due for launch on Tuesday, August 20, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Nigeria is Negotiable, a collection of essays spanning more than two decades attributes the problems of […]

A group of Delta State citizens has berated some members of the Delta State House of Assembly for embarking on a wasteful capacity building seminar. While the group, Anioma, conceded that capacity building programmes are sometimes necessary, it claimed that the objectives of this particular seminar are unclear. “The Board of Trustees and entire members […]

The Minister of Petroleum Resources and Chairperson of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC   Mrs. Diezani Alison-kkkkkkkkkMadueke has called on operators and service providers in the oil and gas industry to cooperate with the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, in its mandate to ensure effective monitoring of nuclear application in the industry. […]

At a time when governance in Nigeria has become a competition to parrot “transformation” while everything is done to hunker the country backwards; and with the Presidency obsessed with the politics of 2015, the Federal Government is determined to contest election into the UN Security Council for the 2014-2015 session, ostensibly to ensure more visibility […]

The recent report that US President Barrack Obama has invited Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss security issues is good for Nigeria. Regardless of what anti-imperialists will say, the United States is the only country that has the greatest capacity to influence positively or negatively the affairs of other countries especially poor ones like Nigeria. […]

An imminent age purge in the Nigerian U-17 Golden Eaglets is threatening to hamper the country’s successful representation at this year’s edition of the U-17 World Youth Championships, billed to hold in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in October. Officials of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) have recommended that players placed on Grade 5 by […]

This week, we will commence a study of the import of names. In circular cultures, names have little meaning, they are viewed as some cute-sounding words parents picked out so they could call us to dinner without having to say, “Hey, you!” But in Bible culture, names have tremendous importance; and as believers, we must be careful […]

Newly registered political party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDM) on Saturday released its mission statement, lamenting the country’s discouraging economic and political outlook, and promising to institute a culture of incorruptibility and nationalism among the leadership. The party observed that over the last decade, Nigeria has witnessed an unprecedented decline in its social, economic and political […]

Erstwhile Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has been disqualified by the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) from contesting the party primaries to determine its candidate for the upcoming governorship election in the state. Soludo, who only recently decamped to APGA from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was disqualified on […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it will press on with its ongoing industrial action while the Federal Government makes the money required to fulfil its obligation to tertiary education in the country.  Immediate past Chairman of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka branch of ASUU, Prof. Aloysius Okolie made the assertion in […]

The eight-man Judicial Commission of Inquiry inaugurated by Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi to investigate the crisis in the House of Assembly has been nullified by a Port Harcourt High Court presided over by Justice Lamenkara Iyaye. In addition to ruling that the commission is unconstitutional, the court restrained its members from sitting to […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has registered two new political parties in accordance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as Amended) and the Electoral Act 2010 (as Amended). According to a statement released by Secretary to the Commission, Mrs. A. C. Ogakwu, the newly registered parties are […]