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In the coming weeks, we will be studying Spirit Soul and Body, but in this piece I will lay the foundation.Often you hear preachers say, “man is tripartite being,” inferring that man is a three-part being: part is spirit, part is soul and part is body. This depiction, though partially correct, is misleading. Essentially, man […]

Nigeria will be 53 year since independence from colonial rule on the 1st Oct 2013. Can we say its Uhuru yet? No it isn’t, really it is Goodluck! Uhuru is a Swahili word for freedom and Independence. How many Nigerians can beat their chest to say, we are truly free after 53 years and how many Nigerians can say […]Read More

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sanctioned 20 Bureau De Change (BDC) operators for allegedly engaging in foreign exchange malpractices. The bank revoked their licences and urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the allegation against them. The CBN on Friday listed the names of the Bureau De Change as FBN […]

I am certain there are others who, like me, received invitations to the recent edition of the Storymoja/Hay Literature Festival in Nairobi, but could not attend. My absence was particularly regrettable, because I had planned to make up for my failure to turn up for the immediate prior edition. Participant or absentee however, this is […]

Since the seven rebel PDP governors embarked on their futile rebellion against President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP, they have at every given opportunity made pretence to the fact that they are fighting to enthrone “justice and equity” in PDP! At least one does not need to be a lawyer to know […]

Justice Abdulkadir Abdul-Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove the name of erstwhile Governor of Osun state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola from their records as the party’s National Secretary. In his ruling on Friday, the judge also stated that the nomination of Professor […]

The Group Managing Director, (GMD)  Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Andrew Yakubu has pledged the Federal Government’s commitment to sustain the reform presently ongoing in the petroleum sector. Top on the reform agenda of the government according to Mr. Yakubu is the determined efforts of the Federal Government to ensure that the three refineries; […]

There can be little doubt that the relocation of the 19 igbo destitutes from Lagos state a few months ago was a lawful exercise and that it was done in the interest of Lagos state. Consequently I do not believe that Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola ought to have tendered any form of apology whatsoever to […]

Aggrieved students of Bayero University, Kano on Thursday embarked on a street protest to express their anger with the ongoing industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), giving the Federal Government a one-week ultimatum to meet ASUU’s demands. According to President of the Student Union Government of the university, Comrade Muhammed Sani, […]

The Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream, Hon. Muraina Ajibola, on Thursday declared that the ongoing fight against crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism has escalated advising that Nigerians must stand up to fight the scourge because of its damaging effect on the nation’s economy. Hon. Muraina who led members of the […]

Chairman of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje on Thursday condemned the rape of the country’s economy by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, stating that despite claims to the contrary by the administration in a futile bid to deceive Nigerians, the overwhelming evidence is that the Nigerian […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a five- man syndicate for attempting to defraud various banks in the country. The scammers attempted the fraud  by inserting a device called “grabber” into banks’ computer systems,  in order to copy account information of different customers and post funds from those accounts into various fraudulent […]