•How he collected the money — Bodunde •I don’t know what he is talking about — Batagarawa •Officials threaten panel’s job By Kingsley  Omonobi , Abuja-A FORMER minister of state for defence, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, has been quizzed by the Federal Government’s investigation panel probing the $190 million Halliburton scam following an allegation by a […]

IF you think there is fuel scarcity in Nigeria then you must either be ignorant or a fool. There is no fuel scarcity; and that is authoritative – as you will discover shortly. But, there is scarcity of patriotism and abundance of saboteurs – again as you will soon find out.

A LARGE percentage of the new churches are disguised business ventures. But because of material poverty, intellectual cowardice and inability to genuinely appreciate the existential implications of the cosmic insignificance of human life here on earth, most Christians believe that by giving to the pastor, by giving to the church, they are really acting in accordance with the divine will, forgetting that no one knows the divine will for sure.

AN attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight in the United States of America (US) began with a pop and a puff of smoke, sending passengers scrambling to tackle a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travellers said.

IT is very embarrassing indeed if and when a public officer articulates a position that is not grounded on set rules and procedures. That public officer ends up having what we call a bad press. The tragic outcome is that one with a bad press leaves behind a record that is distorted even if otherwise credible.

WHAT does Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) really want? Whose interest is it championing at the moment?

The suspected terror attack shook the skeletal staff of the White house as the surprise attack happened in the absence of the President.Report reaching us raveled that Obama and most of the President’s staff are away on vacation in Honolulu, Hawia.

The Banking reforms implemented in the second half of the year by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) aggravated the fall of equity prices on the Nigeria Stock Exchange(NSE) , with investors losing N8.6 trillion in shares’ values from March 2008 to date.

I SEIZE this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful festive season.
Even when there is a scarcity of cash to celebrate in all the ways we may have wished to, we can at least be thankful to the Almighty God for giving us life and saving us from the many tragedies we see or read about on a daily basis.

A renowned Nigerian ex-banker, Umaru Mutallab, on Saturday admitted that the man arrested, Mallam Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, over a botched attempt to blow up a US airliner on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit is his son.