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In place of elected chairmen, the 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State on Monday got Executive Secretaries. The Executive Secretaries are to look after the affairs of the councils pending when elections would be held to fill the positions of council chairmen in the state. The councils were, for many […]

The supposed inauguration of the campaign team of President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the February general elections was cancelled Monday as a result of the death of the President’s younger sister. Headed by former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, as its Director-General, the campaign organisation was to be inaugurated Monday, […]

Nigeria’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) maybe squaring for a battle with the Federal Government over the current prices of fuel. Nigeria has continued to sell premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, for N97 per litre, diesel at N147 per litre and kerosene at between N120 and N130 per litre. The prices of the […]

The insurgency ravaging the North east has badly affected development work in the region as aid workers have been forced to abandon their humanitarian activities and flee insecurity and targeted attacks by Boko Haram fighters. Ironically, Borno State, officially tagged “State of Peace” is now, perhaps, the most hit by the insurgency as well as […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo again threw another salvo at his estranged god-son, President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of squandering the billions of dollars saved from the sale of crude oil by his administration and that of the late Umar Yar’Adua and left behind in the government’s coffers. Obasanjo had, for some time now, been very […]

The Boko Haram sect has seized an army base in Baga, Borno State. The Baga which was sized by the insurgents on Sunday is regarded as the headquarters of a multinational force comprising troops from Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, although only Nigerian troops are actually stationed there. Witnesses said the troops fled the army […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has told his immediate predecessor, Dr Kayode Fayemi to desist from lying to the public on the actual cost of the Government House that he built with borrowed funds, saying; the total contract sum for the Oke Ayoba Government House was N3.38bn and not N2.1bn as claimed by Fayemi. […]

The strike action embarked upon by the judicial workers across the country affected activities at the various high courts and magistrate courts in all States on Monday. Entrances to the courts across the state were shut in compliance with the industrial action resulting in the inability of the courts to function. In courts where the […]

Mrs Jonathan Olei, younger sister of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has passed. Announcing her passing, Reuben Abati, in a statement, said, “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan announces with deep sorrow, the passing away of his beloved junior sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei.” “Mrs. Jonathan-Olei passed away earlier today at a hospital in Yenagoa after a brief illness. She […]

There can be no better expression of apprehension over the 2015 elections than the spontaneous groundswell of agitation for violence-free balloting by many prominent as well as obscure Nigerians and some of the country’s deeply concerned foreign friends. Perhaps, given the palpable fear of explosive conflict that the unquestionably zero-sum election might generate, it is […]

The 2015 New Year speech by President Goodluck Jonathan was disappointing for failing to accurately capture the state of the nation. It was obvious the President wanted to paint a rosy picture over an otherwise gloomy state of affairs, but in the end, succeeded only in wasting a golden opportunity to initiate a frank and […]

The law, which includes the Ten Commandment and other 613 laws was given to bring man to end of himself, so that in his  hopelessness, he would see his need for a saviour.  It was given because they rejected the Abrahamic covenant of Grace Remember after God brought them out of Egypt to mount Sinai, […]