Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sworn in as Algeria’s president for a fourth term Monday, in a televised ceremony after his re-election in a campaign he was too sick to participate in.

AT basic economic classes, we were taught to assume that all other things will remain the same before certain economic conclusions can be reached. In the real world, this is hardly possible and thus makes postulations on the economy subject to different interpretations.

President Barack Obama said Monday the United States was poised to unveil fresh sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, as pro-Kremlin gunmen seized another town in the east.

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has registered to stand in next month’s presidential election, which he is widely expected to win, parliament speaker Mohammed al-Lahham said on Monday.

The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has condoled with Vice President Namadi Sambo over the death of his younger brother, Capt. Yusuf Sambo.

A group under the aegis, Save Adamawa State Movement, SASM, yesterday took a swipe at Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa asking him to as a matter of urgency resign for writing a letter to the Northern Governors Forum, accusing the Federal Government of embarking on what he termed a full-fledged genocide in the North.

THE House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts will today meet over the alleged N10billion scam on chartered private jets by the Minister of Petroleum Resources,Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Angered by the atrocities being committed by the Boko Haram insurgents in parts of the North, the Yoruba Unity Forum, YUF, has made a strong case for President Goodluck Jonathan to step on powerful toes in a bid to defeat the terrorists and save Nigeria from the brink.

The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Jonah Otunla, has said that about N25 billion was spent on salaries of Federal Government workers in April.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday perform the ground breaking ceremony for the N960 billion housing scheme that would be made affordable for Nigerian workers to reduce homelessness some of them face after a meritorious service to their father land.

OUR governments adopt the easiest approaches to the malaria scourge – talk about it, prescribe more use of mosquito nets. Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced in 2012 that more than 90 per cent of Nigeria’s population – about 150.3 million people – is at risk of malaria infection.

Ogun State Property Investment Corporation, OPIC, is targeting to generate a total of N20 billion into the coffers of Ogun State government through its activities.

The Julius Berger-Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, consortium, the contractors handling the 2nd Niger Bridge, has promised to complete the project on schedule.

Asaba—DELTA State governor, Mr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has challenged leaders not to be afraid of allowing independent assessors to take critical look at their activities while in office, saying that same was why he took what he described as a “bold step” by inviting the United Nations, UN, to assess his administration.

There is now a high sense of uncertainty over the fate of the remaining electricity workers inherited from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, by successor companies, as their six months contracts expire this week.