The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, has said that the ministry is closely monitoring the development in Ukraine and will evacuate Nigerians in the country if the crisis escalates.

AS 2015 general elections draw closer, an Igbo social group, Supreme Igbo Security Council, SISC, under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Wednesday, had joined others to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election in 2015 general elections and that after Jonathan’s second term, it would be turn of an Igbo man to rule Nigeria as president.

President Goodluck Jonathan has relieved the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi of his job.

An open letter supposedly written by Sadiq Sani Abacha and shared by his sister Gumsu Sani Abacha on her Facebook wall in response to Professor Wole Soyinka’s remarks that it was an insult to share an award with their father Sani Abacha at the just concluded Centenary celebrations.

Sir, I believe brilliance is not perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn’t this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria’s woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a great deal of it unaccounted for.