Chairman of Mobilisation and Organisation Committee of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in South West, Prince Buruji Kashamu has faulted the governorship ambition of former Speaker of House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, saying he is not qualified to be next governor of the state.

BY BEN AGANDE Abuja—President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that the Federal Government has earmarked one billion U.S Dollars for the implementation of a comprehensive programme to check crude oil theft, the vandalism of oil and gas infrastructure, and the apprehension and prosecution of crude oil thieves. He made this disclosure when he met with the […]

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, Sunday, said Pope Francis has promised to visit Nigeria. A statement from the president’s office, however, did not give any timing for the proposed visit.

The Registrar of a Magistrate’s Court in Enugu State has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for demanding bribe in the course of discharging his official duty.
Anikwu Ifesinachi was convicted and sentenced by Justice A. A. Nwobodo of Enugu High Court without an option of fine.

FOR going ahead with the competency test for secondary and primary schools in the state, despite a court order stopping same, counsel to Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASSUS, Mr. Olayiwola Afolabi, is to file contempt proceeding against Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Henry Idahagbon.

As a student, I still have the fear of tomorrow after graduation if one could get a job or die while searching for non-existing vacancy.

In fact, as many have lately observed, we are now sitting on a time-bomb when millions are unemployed. A 2012 survey by the National Bureau of Statistics put Nigeria’s youth unemployment figure at 54 percent. This means one out of every two young people who should be gainfully employed is unemployed. That’s frustrating and scary.

Lagos State government is set to introduce new building regulations that will ensure that engineers and architects put their seal on their drawings and give letters of indemnity on buildings they handle.

The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has said that consumer’s right is not observed in the country.

The embattled CBN Governor, Mr Lamido Sanusi has never cut a popular figure in the socio-economic/political environment of the nation’s polity. He has in the past pitted himself against unnecessary narcissist indulgences ranging from meddling in issues of national security regarding Boko Haram, to attacks on high profile and respectable Nigerian Christian leaders like Pastor Enoch Adeboye. As enraged as I was with his attack against Adeboye, I must put away sentiments and personal loyalty and my dislike for the CBN governor in considering a burning national issue of great international dimensions to our nation and its citizens. This is not about Sanusi, this is about an alleged missing $20b (twenty billion US dollars) from the nation’s account.

President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived Amsterdam, Netherlands, ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) scheduled to hold in The Hague on Monday.