By Wole Mosadomi Minna — The Senate is to determine the fate of President Umaru Yar’Adua who is undergoing medical treatment in Saudi Arabia for over 50 days now. Deputy Senate President, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, who disclosed this while answering questions from journalists in Minna, Niger State yesterday said the Senate had decided to deliberate […]

HYPOCRISY is already in full display as some self-promoting Nigerians have begun buying relevance with the Nations Cup in Angola. If they succeed, being a World Cup year too, they would have made names for themselves as patriots.

The 27th Orange CAF Nations Cup started yesterday in Angola. By tomorrow, the Super Eagles of Nigeria will take centre stage in the only match that will, perhaps determine their fate in the competition.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi has urged all eligible tax payers in Rivers State to honour their tax obligations to government as a pre-condition for goods and services from the government.

NATIONAL Co-ordinator of Niger Delta Re-orientation Project, Mr. Sheriff Mulade, and leadership of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have condemned the vandalisation of oil pipelines at Utonana and Macaraba by some angry Ijaw youths. It was allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two of their own by soldiers of the Joint Task Force.

Ijaw youth leaders and ex-militants in the Niger Delta, yesterday, met in Yenagoa to deliberate on the Presidential Committee on Amnesty’s (PCA) workplan for the reintegration and rehabilitation process for repentant militants.

Five shareholders of Intercontinental Bank Plc have dragged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, its Governor and Intercontinental Bank Plc to a Federal High Court in Lagos seeking an order to restrain the CBN Governor from selling the shares of the bank to local or foreign investors.

NOBEL laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and former presidential candidate of All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), will tomorrow lead other eminent Nigerians to the National Assembly to protest against the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country.

It would be mischief on the part of this column if we subscribed to the bandwagon of those elitist Nigerians whose stock in trade is the creation of false hope of a better year ahead at the end of every dismal year in the past two decades or so.

“ The Bible says we should pray for all those in authority. This is so that they will guide us aright. If out of grudge and malice we refuse to pray for them, a good sense of judgement will elude them, and they will begin to fumble and stagger in the dark, and their mis-rule will plunge the entire country into darkness. That will mess up the lives of all Nigerians.

Officials of American Homeland Security would meet the Presidency and aviation officials in Abuja tomorrow over the attempt by a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to blow up a Northwest airliner at Detroit, U.S.A, last Christmas Day

In the past, Daniel Amokachi led other assistants in Fatai Amoo and Alloy Agu in training the Eagles while Shaibu Amodu played supervisory role and also had his way on tactical play of the Green Eagles.

By  Chidi Nkwopara  OWERRI—Imo State branch of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is again on collision course with the state government, for allegedly “refusing to remit the pay as you earn, PAYE, deducted from its staff over the years.” The Special Adviser to the Governor on Revenue Generation, Mobilization and Accounts Monitoring, Deacon Kierian Onwuzuruike, […]

 By Godwin Oritse FORMER Transport Minister, Dr Abiye Sekibo has faulted a proposed bill to create a new Maritime Security Agency, MSA, arguing that the bill will completely take away the core functions of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, which is empowered to superintend the provision of security for shipping traffic and […]

THE rising rate of unemployment in Nigeria threatens the welfare of hundreds of thousands of individuals, and exacerbates the current economic crisis.