`What we want is a president that can be accessible, be our friend’
Ahead of the 2015 polls, the presidential candidates of the PDP and APC, President Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari were on Saturday urged to base their campaigns on issues.
Buhari or bust
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.
`How cultist arranged gang raping of girlfriend’
16-year-old Jolade (surname withheld) didn’t know she had been dating a suspected cult member until the unexpected happened to her.
Crisis looms in Foursquare
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.”
Controversial Primaries: How are the mighty fallen!
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.
Nigeria requires $113bn to revamp 3 critical sectors of economy – BPE boss
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.
