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President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has been appointed to co-chair 2014 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos-Kloster, Switzerland. The Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Prof. Klaus Schwab in his invitation letter to the business mogul, said Aliko Dangote’s participation as co-chair will contribute significantly to the substance and relevance of exchanges […]

Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio took his cabinet by surprise on Monday when he sacked three commissioners and one special adviser. This is the second time this year that the governor would be sacking members of his cabinet. A statement by Mr. Aniekan Umanah, the Commissioner for Information and Communications in the state said the sack […]

The ongoing industrial action of the National Association of Resident Doctors is illegal and unwarranted, the Federal Government has said.   According to Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu — who was speaking at the opening ceremony of a retreat organised for Chairmen of Boards of Management, Governing Boards, Governing Councils, Chief Executive Officers and […]

The departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos was a rowdy sight to behold on Monday morning, when hundreds of Dana Airline passengers trooped to the airline’s counters for refund of their previously paid air fares. The airline’s license was suspended by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), but many of the passengers […]

The impression, which has been created in some quarters, is that the position of the chair of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), a non-constitutional body, was at the root of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).  That is only partly correct.  There were other reasons that conspired to cause aggravation among some leaders […]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday inaugurated the advisory committee he earlier named to oversee the framework for the convocation of a national conference to discuss some of the country’s vexed issues. The committee, which has six weeks to complete its assignment, has fourteen members Speaking at the inauguration, Jonathan described the step as an important […]

President Goodluck Jonathan and breakaway governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have agreed to postpone the peace meeting called to resolve the ongoing crisis in the party. Those governors who attended the brief meeting on Monday where the decision was reached were Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Rabiu Kwankwaso […]

Any patron of Bureau de Change may find that a difference of about N10 per dollar now exists between the official rate of N155 per dollar ex-Central Bank, and about N165/dollar in the open market!  This is in place of the permitted one per cent markup officially allowed to commercial banks on dollar purchases ex-CBN. […]

1.Today, we are taking historic and concrete steps that will further strengthen our understanding, expand the frontiers of our inclusiveness and deepen our bond as one people under God. 2.In my address to the Nation on the occasion of our 53rd Independence and Golden Anniversary as a Republic, I announced that in response to the […]

Elections, as we all know, remain the best way to deepen democracy and promote good governance. This is because credible elections make leaders accountable and responsive to the needs and yearnings of the people from whom they derive their mandate to govern. Good democratic governance helps to address the fundamental aspirations of citizens. Liberal democratic […]

Editor: As a State of hundreds of nationalities with so many fault lines and huge diversification challenges, we have not fared badly in our 100 years of common existence. Our ability to weather the storm and remain a united entity is in itself a fundamental achievement. The world today cannot count 5 nations with the […]

Amid the apparent failure of the federal government to pay state governments their share of monthly allocation, President Goodluck Jonathan’s defensive fulminations, the other day, at suggestions that the country was broke, amounted to an ostrich evasion that is a recipe for social cataclysm and possible violent implosion of the polity over a serious national […]