Nigeria has made history in London as Forever Living Products International celebrated its 2014 Global Rally in the UK capital. Nigeria was ranked 3rd in the world among the 158 countries that Forever Living Products International is presently doing business

The current national debt burden of Nigeria is a cause for serious patriotic concern and the present trend of national debt servicing cost is a clear warning sign of future trouble if not reversed.
Therefore, the Federal Government must immediately evaluate and mitigate our rising national debt to prevent a debt crisis.

During the Second Republic, when visionary Chief Sam Onunaka Mbakwe was Governor of Imo State, he set up a beautiful refuse disposal strategy. Until he was sacked by political adventurists in military garb, Imo remained a reference point on how to keep the environment clean.

Although he is a Provincial Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, and the MD/CEO of Brunnel Nigeria Limited, if a man’s beginning determined his ending, he would have amounted to nothing. According to his personal testimony, the penury to which his widowed mother was thrown after the demise of his Area customary court judge father, left his future hanging in the balance.

Most Rev. Adebayo Akinde, the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos (Anglican Communion), has advised Christians not to compromise their faith in the face of challenges confronting the nation.

France’s foreign minister offered China his country’s help on Sunday in locating 10 workers feared kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, as African leaders joined forces to fight the terrorist group.

At least 40 villagers were killed and several others injured on Saturday evening in Dalwa-Masuba village of Damboa local of Borno state in northeast Nigerian, security sources and witnesses said.

Two Customs officers, Felola Uzezi and Mohammed Sanni, attached to Gbaji Customs checkpoint, are being quizzed by the Police over the alleged rape of a 23-year-old girl.

The 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon have most likely been taken back across the border to the Nigerian Islamist group’s strongholds, a police official said Sunday.

Mali’s Prime Minister Moussa Mara said Sunday the country was “at war” with terrorists in the northern city of Kidal after clashes between separatist militants and the Malian army left 36 dead.

An aide to Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, Mr John Akhigbe, said on Sunday that the governor had not picked a successor to take over from him in 2016.

Akhigbe, a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Protocol, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin.

He was reacting to speculations that the crisis rocking the party was as a result of the governor’s overbearing influence in the running of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

But Akhigbe said the governor was a democrat who believes that the choice of the next governor should be made by the people.

“The governor has consistently maintained that it will not do the state or anybody any good to be discussing what is over two years away.

“So the governor has not anointed anybody because he has not said anything and I don’t think the governor I know will anoint anybody.

“He has told us that the leaders of the party will decide and the leaders have not yet decided.

“He has also said it is not time for 2016 and that people should reason with us that governance is more important to Edo people than the person who will be governor in 2016.

“We have all agreed that the idea of succession should be laid to rest for now,” he stated.

On the alleged over bearing influence of the governor, Akhigbe said: ” How can he be influencing the running of the party?”

“They have also blamed him for being responsible for the misunderstanding in the party because he (Oshiomhole) wants to build his political structure.

“In fact, the governor does not believe that you must build a structure to be able to get a position politically.

“He believes the structure that you should build is building yourself in the heart of the masses.

“The governor cannot be influencing anything in the party because he is not the one running the party but he is a leader in the party.

“Those who are making these allegations are the ones who want certain persons in a particular positions.”

Akhigbe, however, told NAN that efforts were being made to resolve the misunderstanding in the party.

“I can tell you that the governor, being a democrat, has been making moves for the aggrieved to state their grievances.

“If you have a child that is aggrieved in your home, you must call the child to know what is happening.

“If you find out that the child has good reasons, the best you can do is to pacify him or her.

“So the party has made a move and even the governor himself has called them to hear their own side of the story,’’ he said.

NAN recalls that the Edo APC had been embroiled in crisis over the conduct of ward and local government congresses in the state.

The crisis had led to some some key members of the APC led by the South-South Vice chairman of the defunct ACN, Mr Osazie Ize-Iyamu, quitting the party. (NAN)

Some members of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) said on Sunday that the present bicameral legislature operating at the Federal level was strengthening political checks and balances in the system.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, urged Nigerian journalists to be factual in their news reporting and not to be sentimental in their judgment.

The Principal of Government College, Makurdi, Mr Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school had received letter from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school.

The House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights has called for the establishment of National Child Protection and Enforcement Agency to cater for the welfare of children in Nigeria.