TODAY 10.5 MILLION NIGERIANS WILL NOT GO TO SCHOOL.

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An Al-Qaeda-linked group on Sunday claimed a dozen car bombings in Shiite neighbourhoods in Baghdad which killed 50 people last week, part of a nationwide surge in unrest.

Witnesses said Egyptian military helicopters launched a second day of air raids on Sunday in Sinai in what the army described as “the largest military operation” to uproot Islamist militants.

Miss World began in Indonesia Sunday amid tight security after days of Muslim hardline protests that forced authorities to order the whole beauty pageant be held on the Hindu-majority island of Bali.

Kenya has offered its 46 newly-discovered oil blocs for interested Nigerian investors in the oil and gas industry to develop.

Nwankwo Kanu, former Eagles Captain, and some players of the senior national team, are upbeat that Nigeria will qualify for Brazil 2014 World Cup.

Former British Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown will tomorrow attend an education summit in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday the Japanese capital city of Tokyo has been picked as the host city of the 2020 Olympic Games.

Egypt’s state prosecutor said Sunday that Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie would stand trial in a second case over clashes in which several demonstrators were killed, judicial sources said.

Dr. Samuel Ortom, Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, in this interview, shares his views on the happenings in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He says the crisis in the PDP is not strange and that the party will come out of it stronger, adding that the newly registered parties are no threat to the ruling party.

UNKNOWN gunmen in Rivers State, on Friday night, abducted Archbishop Ignatius Kattey, the Dean of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria and Archbishop, Niger Delta North Diocese. The victim was said to have been whisked away with his wife, Beatrice, by the kidnappers around Aleto Bridge, Eleme at about 10.30pm while on his way to Port Harcourt.

LAGOS State branch of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has hailed the last two administrations in the state since 1999 but insists that the successor of Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola who should take over the mantle of leadership in the state should be a Christian in the interest of justice and equity.

A lawyer from Cameroon, Mrs Ngala Norgu Julia, has been arrested by men of the Cross River State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, for allegedly being in possession of a one- week -old baby girl which she claimed she was delivered of by a herbalist at Okitiputa, Ondo State.

The Baraje faction, aka New PDP, yesterday, described the siege by the police to its office as a flagrant violation of a court order that stopped the Alhaji Bamangar Tukur-led PDP from interfering with its affairs.

It faulted the police action which it said was executed on the grounds of a non-existent court injunction which the Tukur-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP claimed to have obtained on Friday.

The Lord asked me a loaded question.  All the Lord’s questions are loaded.  When the Creator asks the created a question, he should not be in a hurry to answer.