Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and his main opponent from the PDP in the August 9 governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore yesterday felicitated with Muslim faithful on the occasion of Eid-el Fitri celebration.

Last week, Thursday to be precise, the demolition process commenced.
Alhaji Aminu Maigari was booted out by his own board. Before now, all arguments that this board was perhaps the most successful in the history of Nigerian football fell on deaf ears. The simplistic answer was that “…..what goes round must come round.”

The National Council on Privatisation (NCP)’s Fact-Finding Committee on Aluminum Smelting Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), has said that the allegation of asset stripping against UC Rusal–owners of the company was untrue as ALSCON’s machines and structures were intact.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Sylvester Okonkwo, said weekend, in Awka that Nigeria’s greatest impediment to achieving national objectives was the ‘Our turn syndrome,’ which was dragging the country backward.

EDE—Former governor of Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, has said there would be no problem if military is brought in for the forthcoming Osun State governorship election to maintain peace.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday swore in and deployed the former Corp Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr Osita Chidoka as the new Minister of Aviation. It will be recalled that the Aviation ministry has been without a substantive minister since February when the former minister, Princess Stella Oduah was removed. A supervising minister, Dr Samuel Ortom has been overseeing the ministry.

Ahead of the emergency congress of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) slated to take place this Thursday in Abuja, there are very clear indications that the camp of the impeached president of the federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has started an intensive lobbying of the delegates to the congress with a view to getting them quash the impeachment.

OBY Ezekwesili and her gang have shouted themselves hoarse, yet have been unable to get anywhere near President Goodluck Jonathan. However, a Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan visited and, within 48 hours, met with the most powerful president in Black Africa. Why should the President ignore the former director of the World Bank, Mrs. Ezekwesili, and meet a teenager from a country in the middle of nowhere but terrorism?

“For this reason, I seek the concurrence of the National Assembly for external borrowing of not more than $1 billion..” President Jonathan in the letter to the Senate President, David Mark on July 15, 2014.

Ancient city of Kano witnessed fresh bomb attacks, yesterday, as twin explosions targeted at worshippers at Saint Charles Catholic Church, Sabon Gari, and a police check point in Kano killed six persons. The dead included a soldier, two women, a man, a child and a female suicide bomber.

Keystone Bank Limited has concluded plans to divest its subsidiaries before the sale of the bank to core investor, even as it returns to profitability.

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee last week approved the sum of over N755bn for sharing among the three tiers of government. Ordinarily, the distribution of this relatively sizable revenue would elicit hope that the economy will become positively impacted, as the various tiers of government would be funded to achieve their budget expectations.

African portfolio investors’ patronage of shares of multinational companies trading on African Exchanges has over time aided in driving their share prices to an undeserving high, said Mr. Jude Fejokwu, Principal analyst at Thaddeus African Research.

Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, has signed a $200 million (about N32 billion) pact with Pan African housing finance institution, Shelter Afrique, for development of housing units in Nigeria within the next five years.

Imagine this scenario: Boko Haram grows more sophisticated; more daring, recruits wider, establishes better training facilities, acquires deadlier arms and more potent military capacity, enough to subdue and carve out a wide swath of Nigeria from the Chad basin, to the Adamawa hills. It secures swaths of land from parts of Chad, parts of Cameroon, and parts of the Central African Republic, and it creates an effective new country in the very heart of Central West Africa. This scenario is not too far-fetched, and ought to worry Nigeria’s security analysts, because it seems to me that we have a new scale of a vast and unthinkable problem shaping from this insurgency.