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In Today’s Nigeria, there is a craze amongst elites is to be chauffeured in a private jet. Government officials, particularly governors, who are hired by the people, use tax payers’ money to acquire private jets for themselves while relegating the dividends of democracy, such as good roads and hospitals, to the background. Aside from being […]

The continuing stability of Nigeria’s constitutional democracy has begun to foster in political office holders a greater sense of humility, and more devotion to public duty. Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku said this while addressing the Nigeria Conversation programme in Atlanta, Georgia, According to Maku, over the last 14 years since Nigeria returned to democratic […]

Honourable Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has constituted a panel to probe the crisis over match allowance involving Super Eagles of Nigeria players in Namibia.  The footballers had rejected the allowance approved for them by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) after two away games with the national […]

The killing of dozens of people, mostly students, in an attack by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect on a secondary school in Yobe State is a “horrific” act, the European Union said on Sunday. A hospital in Potiskum confirmed that 42 people were killed while the Military already stated that […]

For many around the world who are as shocked as this writer at events unfolding in Egypt, there is denying the fact that the country is in both trying and troubled times. Not many would have believed a coup, as quiet and quick as it was yet supportive of most Egyptians, could remove a democratically […]

Last week my office literally turned into a small battle-field, the issue was basically, on the proliferation of arms, the fact that something is inherently wrong, whether by default or not. Somewhere in the battle, the term Négritude was used by my humble self to draw an analogy; ‘Negritude’ is a literary and ideological movement, […]

Ambivalence! That is the most common of the failings of men.When points of view clash, in equal proportion and quantum, the human mind suffers. That is why there is temptation, sin and repentance – but we can leave repentance out of this. The human is categorized as being different from animals because he has the […]

The recent disclosure by Shell Producing Development Company (SPDC) that the nation’s economy lost a whopping $4.3 billion to oil thieves in the last two years at an average rate of $2.15 billion annually, underscores the urgency of the problem of oil theft that has assumed alarming proportions in the Niger Delta. The activities of […]

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has finally confirmed that national coach, Stephen Keshi has not received salary for five months, dating back to when he won the African Cup of Nations in February. Speaking with BBC Sport, NFF General Secretary, Musa Amadu said the situation is still under control, as the coach hasn’t yet made […]

Member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele is bent on contesting next year’s Ekiti State governorship election with incumbent Kayode Fayemi, despite the position of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that the incumbent should contest unopposed on the platform of the party. Addressing his supporters at his office on Saturday, Bamidele […]

God made man exactly like him (in his image and likeness), to be his companion and eternal associate; and conversation is a common phenomenon amongst companions. Prayer is simply conversation or dialogue with God. It is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with God. Man in his fallen state suffers from […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated that the country will remain one indivisible nation no matter the challenges of nation building, saying that terrorism is an anti-progress that must be stamped out. He also said that the country should leverage on two important windows of opportunities, the Nigerian Army ingenuity and Petroleum sector local content drive to […]