When President Goodluck Jonathan observed not long ago that members of a dreaded insurgent group had infiltrated his own government, some people thought it was politics. From the look of things, it is becoming difficult to doubt the assertion.

Senator Ben Ndi Obi, an Anambra high chief, was vice presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the 2007 presidential election won by Alhaji Umar Musa Yar’Adua. He was later appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan as his Special Adviser on Inter-Party Affairs upon assumption of office. Since his appointment, Obi has preached the need for politicians to eschew party politics, especially after elections, and embrace national-interest politics, in order for the leader in power to successfully move the nation forward.

There has never been a more opportune time for the Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi and the newly appointed Director-General, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye to clarify the vision and mission of the National Sports Commission (NSC) as sports federation boards settle to develop a comprehensive development plan and source for funding.

Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba says there is nowhere in the Constitution that the democratically elected structures should be dissolved under emergency rule, pointing out that the dissolution in past dispensation was unconstitutional. Excerpts of interview:

Expectedly the President’s declaration of emergency has provoked harsh criticism from the usual opposition groups – particularly the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. As someone born and bred in progressive politics, I had spent all my life in the same camp as the progressives – even if, lately, the Awoists and progressives have started to resemble, increasingly, like the conservatives they want to replace at the centre.

By Gbenga Ariyibi Ado Ekiti Parents and guardians of about 150 students of  the School of Nursing ,Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Ido Ekiti, who were made to forfeit their admission status by the authorities of the school, have petitioned the Federal Ministry of Health and the  Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, alleging sharp […]

Addis Ababa, about 48hours ago: At about the time Asishana Okauru, Director General, DG, of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, was announcing Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi as the elected Chairman of the body, one of the aides to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan whispered to the President that Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State had been elected as Chairman of the same body. Minutes later, Jonathan, who also held a secret meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Addis Ababa (ostensibly over the multifarious political challenges besetting the former), was made to understand that the earlier information he got was not true in every material particular.

Indigenous Nigerian cultures, Christianity, and Islam recommend marriage for everyone. For instance, Christianity teaches that he who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour from God (assuming that such a being exists). Because The Holy Bible appears to have been written from a fundamentally masculine perspective, there is no mention of a wife finding a good thing if she gets a husband. Islam also encourages marriage, while according to native customs and traditions, an unmarried state for both men and women is an abomination.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation announced yesterday that training camp for Afrobasket men will open in Abuja today, May 26th through Thursday May 30th where 12 players from the home league will sweat it out for inclusion in subsequent camps, invitational tournaments and ultimately in the team to Abidjan in August.

WORRIED by the unending agitation and harassment of oil companies by some communities in Ondo State, the state government has inaugurated a committee to liaise between the companies and the communities.