CRUDE oil prices, yesterday, fell below $79 from its $80 benchmark, two days ago. Crude for April delivery fell more than $1 per barrel, breaking a five-day rally, after the expectations of a build-up in U.S. crude oil stocks.
Indications have emerged that all is not well with the Bayelsa State executive council following the alleged resignation of the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Asara A. Asara.
ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday February 16, made his debut on the international stage. It was at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Heads of State Summit which had been on hold due to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s poor health. It was a befitting one for him as 10 of the 13 expected ECOWAS leaders showed up and the rest were represented.
NOW that the Anambra gubernatorial election has come and gone and a winner announced, I guess congratulations to the winner, Mr. Peter Obi, is in order.
FOLLOWING the fracas between members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and their counterparts in the Action Congress, AC, in the Edo State House of Assembly, Monday, the Assembly premises was, yesterday, sealed off by armed mobile policemen numbering more than two thousand.
Northernising poverty minimises the scope of the challenges, stigmatises the North and deludes others that they are better than the North.
FOR Consultants, Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants and some other political functionaries in the twenty local government areas of Ogun State, these are not the best of times. Since September 2009, not a dime has been paid to them.
THE 2011 general elections is gradually gaining momentum. Already, various contenders aspiring to hold public offices have begun subtle moves to achieve their ambitions.
This immortal statement was uttered about one hundred years ago. But American writer Orison Swett Marden may well have been referring to the improbable emergence of Jimoh Ibrahim from the young boy with tall but seemingly impossible dreams in the obscure rural backwood of Igbotako in the furtherest reaches of Ondo State to the phenomenon who now bestrides the Nigerian business landscape like a colossus.
THE ministerial team which left for Saudi Arabia, 12.15 a.m. yesterday, was billed to return to the country this morning, but they failed to meet President Umaru Yar’Adua just as the other delegations before them.
THE Student Union Government of the Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma in collaboration with the Part Time Student Association, yesterday, insisted that the protest embarked upon by students of the university last week, was as result of the increase in school fees by the state government.
FORMER EnglandManager, Glenn Hoddle, most favoured to pick the job of tinkering the Eagles to the World Cup in South Africa would jet into the country today where he would put finishing touches to his contractual agreements with members of the interview panel.
Former Sweden coach, Lars Lagerback, says he is poised to revive the dwindling fortunes of Nigeria Football, if given the mandate to handle the national team.
A lopsided contract which did not favour Nigeria led, in part, to the cancellation of the friendly match with Paraguay, an official of the NFA has said.
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