THE Coordinating Minister for the economy and Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo –Iweala, yesterday disclosed that with the country’s election looming, the 2015 would be a tough and brutal year in maintaining a strong macroeconomic performance the country has recorded in recent times.

YOUTHS under the aegis of the Association of Nigerian Graduates Against Unemployment have expressed displeasure on their non-representation in the proposed national conference.

Lagos State government yesterday said the dwindling federal allocation to the state was having adverse effect on the state accruable revenue, saying; “Today, Lagos State is struggling to ensure that the effect is minimal.”

In what appears to be total dominance of Borno State, Boko Haram terrorists, Monday night, invaded Jakana village in Konduga council area of the state, killing no fewer than 40 people including two policemen.

NO fewer than 3500 pioneer staff of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, from the five South Eastern states, who were not absorbed into the system after working for years as volunteers, have threatened a showdown with the Federal Government.

THE Federal Government’s mediation committee, looking into the leadership conflict in Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, has directed the Nigerian Navy in the area to stem continued acts of lawlessness in the community

As the mobile segment of the communication industry continues to diversify, the emerging technologies have continued to put up a robust dominance over the traditional technologies with great impact on quality of services.

PUBLIC Services International, PSI, West African region, has said that the reform programme in the African continent; especially the West African sub-region is killing jobs and compounding poverty.

The Head of Architecture and Enterprises, CISCO Emerging Market, Mr. Den Sullivan who recently visited Nigeria, has predicted that improvement in Technology will drive Africa’s economic growth in the near future.

NIGERIAN governments are known by the many wars they fight. Each Nigerian government is a kind of war council that chooses its own kind of war.