Tension is mounting at the Presidency and the core North over the court case challenging the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election.

The President of the Christian  Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, says insurgency persists in some parts of the country due to pretence by some Nigerians and refusal to speak the truth.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has condemned last week’s terrorist attacks in Kano and Jos.

“Once again, those who seek to influence our way of life, modify our faith and our most sacred core values, have struck, leaving in their wake lives brutally cut short, limbs badly broken and dreams forced to fade away”, Buhari said in a statement, last night.

THE Warri Study Group (WSG) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel a Federal Government contract awarded to Global West Vessel Service to secure Nigerian coastline, citing the contracts content and the company’s link to an ex-militant leader as threat to national security.

Black Friday, cyber Monday and don’t know about you but if the last couple of days has been nothing to go by, then last Thursday is definitely a super Thursday. Well, for our politicians and those who have a stake in their progress or lack of? To be honest, it was predictive; a two horse race. There was a lot of horse-trading, double dealing, political musical chairs and defections. Threats, legal wrangling, and innuendos, bargaining, pleading, begging and blaming.

16-year-old Jolade (surname withheld) didn’t know she had been dating a suspected cult member until the unexpected happened to her.

THE end might not be heard yet of the purported suspension of a district overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church for allegedly shunning a leadership conference organised by the church headquarters. Addressing newsmen in his church office in Ikorodu, Lagos, Rev. Isaac Adeyemi of Livingspring Tabernacle, Ikorodu, described the letter of suspension allegedly published in national dailies and the various allegations heaped on him as “outright lies, maliciously concocted and baseless.”

The Psalms, in which David was lamenting the deaths of Saul, the king of Israel, and his son, Jonathan, made this headline popular. But the headline also applies to the gubernatorial primaries of the two dominant political parties – PDP and APC – across the states which saw anointed aspirants losing the tickets for the 2015 polls. For instance, in Ebonyi State, the candidate of Governor Martins Elechi, a former Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, lost the PDP ticket. Adamawa State Governor James Bala Ngilari lost the ticket to a former EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu, while in Lagos State, a former minister, Musiliu Obanikoro, was floored by Mr Jimi Agbaje. Sokoto State deputy governor, Mukhtar Shagari, was denied the ticket.

The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Mr. Benjamin Dikki says Nigeria requires fresh injection of about $113 billion in six years for the development of three critical sectors of the nation’s economy, namely Oil and Gas, Power and Transport.

Thursday, December 11, 2014 is another day residents of Jos, Plateau State capital will not forget in a hurry as twin blasts rocked the city.