All Nigerians who have for long been baffled by how public servants including Presidents, Vice Presidents, Governors, Ministers and Special Advisers, Senators and Representatives, have been fleecing us need look no further than the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, which is charged with determining the remuneration packages of public officials. One of the first ruinous measures taken by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 1999, and until now, was to select what in retrospect now appears to be conscienceless people to be in charge of RMAFC. Since any amount recommended by RMAFC becomes legal and binding on the Federal Government and States to pay, everybody can go home with a bundle claiming it was legitimate. On account of the recommendations of RMAFC, since 1999, Nigeria’s public officials have become the highest paid in Africa at least and in most of the world.

Liverpool must reluctantly subject themselves to the after-glow of Chelsea’s Premier League title triumph on Sunday as they attempt to keep their paper-thin hopes of Champions League qualification alive.

South Africa’s annual season of labour strikes often turns violent, but a recent wave of deadly xenophobic attacks has heightened fears that this year’s protests could fuel further aggression towards migrant workers.

The Commanding Officer of Nigerian Airforce,Ilorin base,Commodore Yekeen Ishola has said that Nigerian Police Force alone cannot not effectively tackle the rising cases of insecurity in the country and therefore called for effective collaboration of other security agencies of government in order to successfully fight crimes.

Britain and Germany’s temporarily grounded their Airbus A400M until an investigation determines the cause of the crash of a plane of the same type in Spain, military spokesmen said Sunday.

A FIVE man robbery gang over the weekend at Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, shot the pastor and founder of an Ughelli based prayer group while attempting to steal his Jeep.

Members of South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance voted Sunday at a congress expected to elect the party’s first black leader in what has been billed as a watershed moment for the mostly white party.

Key European governments are fiercely resisting an EU plan that would force the bloc’s 28 member states to share the burden of hosting refugees in the wake of the migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean.

Here are key dates in the current Ebola epidemic, the worst ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever which first surfaced in 1976 in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Two police officers were shot and killed Saturday in Mississippi and police are looking for one of two suspects, according to local media.

A Malaysia Airlines flight to Colombo had to turn back to Kuala Lumpur due to a drunk passenger, the national carrier said on Sunday.

The release of the full report of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) forensic audit, as well as possible removal of the subsidy on petroleum products have been a major talking point in the country.

Mr Joseph Iyoke, a 200-level student of the Open University of Nigeria, says his trekking from Aba to Nsukka is to honour the Enugu State Governor-elect, Mr Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Media mogul and Chairman of the Silverbird Group Ben Murray-Bruce, who was elected as a senator during the general elections, has pledged to lead the struggle for a cut in salaries of public servants. He also said the country can do a way with the president fleet.

’How S-East will benefit under incoming govt’ By Olayinka Ajayi Contrary to the claim that Ndigbo put all their eggs in one basket by voting for President Goodluck  Jonathan en masse in the just concluded presidential election, the Okwadike Ndi’gbo, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, a former governor of Anambra State, and a delegate at the 2014  National Conference, in […]