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The power of might! Or, the might of power! Whichever one you choose, there is an air of inescapable discernment: AUTHORITY. Authority resides everywhere – in the home (which is the smallest unit of society), the ward, local government area, federal constituency, senatorial district, state and country. At every level, there is that symbolism of […]

There is power vested in every believer, and many are unaware of this. Those who are aware have failed to exercise it; hence they have failed to live up to their potential. After Jesus whooped the devil and his regiment ….“So that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death–that […]

Four suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect have been arrested by the Borno Youths Vigilance Group (BYVG) in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State. Eyewitnesses said the four — one of whom is an aide of leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau — were arrested by members during a stop-and-search patrol operation of the […]

The Census Tribunal sitting in Abuja has ordered the National Population Commission (NPC) to embark on another enumeration exercise for Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State after it voided the figure ascribed to the area in the 2006 population census.  The NPC had put the council’s population at 326,700, a figure that the […]

Chief Orientation and Mobilisation Officer of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mathew Odonor has described as beneficial to the country the recent advice by President Goodluck Jonathan to state governors that they should sign death warrants.   He said signing of death warrants would help to decongest the prisons in the country and as well help […]

Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar on Friday escaped death on the Keffi-Gitata Road in Nasarawa State, as his convoy was attacked by gunmen. A shootout between his security aides and the gunmen led to the death of one of the assailants. As the Federal Ministry of Information broke the news, a […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron has hit Nigeria again. He was reported saying Nigerians entering the United Kingdom would deposit £3,000 (about N750,000) before they are let in. The money, it was said, would be returned if the immigrant did not stay longer than his visa stipulated. The report has had Nigerians fuming, from the […]

The planned £3,000 UK visa bond is mainly to discourage travellers from overstaying in the United Kingdom and will not affect everyone, United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to Nigeria Dr Andre Pocock has said. According to Pocock, the pilot scheme will affect just a small number of people considered in the UK to be high-risk visitors. […]

The Special Task Force (STF) on Friday announced that it killed 20 of the gunmen who on Thursday launched an attack on some communities in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing 28 residents. Speaking in Jos, Plateau State, STF spokesman, Capt. Salisu Mustapha said the gunmen killed 28 persons in Magama, Bongong […]

The recent execution of four convicts in Edo State after seven years of moratorium on capital punishment in the country is defensible, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olugbenga Ashiru made the disclosure on Friday in Abuja while speaking at a Consultative Forum on the upcoming review of human rights in the country […]

Editor: Permit me to respond to a repeated claim by notable politician, Senator Iyiola Omisore that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, is in defiance of a court order removing Ambassador Rufus Akeju as the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Osun State. The politician restated this allegation in an […]

No matter where they reside, whether in Nigeria or outside, critical chroniclers of this country’s roller-coaster existence have always been the butt of disparaging comments from jaundiced participants who find themselves in the maddening struggle towards building a befitting functional country. Perhaps discomfited by the certainty of truth, these characters often do not hesitate to […]