Global rating agency, Moody’s, yesterday, warned of a further contraction of the Nigeria, while it disclosed that the declining value of the naira would engender a marginal increase in Nigeria’s external debt to 5.2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP, by end of 2016 from 3.3 per cent in 2015.

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has directed the immediate deployment of 10,000 Personnel for the forthcoming Edo Gubernatorial Poll of the September 9, 2016.

THE South South chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on President Muhammedu Buhari, to take a critical look at the curriculum of secondary education with a view to reintroducing history into the nation’s education system.

THE Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIPOB, and Renegade Indigenous People of Biafra, RENIPOB, a breakaway faction from the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOP, have merged

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) govern-orship candidate in the September 10 election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has asked foreign missions and agencies in Nigeria to send observers and monitors to ensure that plans by any party to rig the elections are nipped in the bud.

Well, I am not surprised, and I believe strongly that it is only the court that can resolve this matter. He came into the chairmanship of the party through the wrong process, and the court has since said so. To now continue to lay claim over the chairmanship of the party when all the organs of the party are not with him, the Governors’ Forum is not with him, the NEC of the party is not with him, the BOT is not with him, so who is he leading in the party? Because he has some rabble rousers around him, he thinks he owns the party. The court has since vindicated us, and we are prepared to move the party forward.

The Emir of Kano and immediate past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Muhammadu Sanusi II, last week took a swipe at the government that he believed was subsidizing foreign exchange and creating billionaires in the country. He said businessmen obtain dollars at official rates of N197 and resell at a higher rate of N300 at the parallel market.

You would think that an EFCC that has just come out of slumber would be helped to stay awake and alert. That its new found vigour would gladden even hearts worried about neutrality and due process lapses. Because some lofty aspirations are only desirable as superstructures on a foundation of firm deterrence. Only an agency inflicting some determined damage on impunity has the chance of being polished beyond vindictiveness and de-wormed of political bias. The EFCC has sloughed off lukewarmness.

Last week, I had to buy dollar and I had to pay N400 for one dollar and you can imagine, if you want to spend $10,000 to import farming equipment, that means I’m looking for N4 million. And only some years ago, my N2.00 was equivalent to $3.00. Two naira in 1986 when I was Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University was equivalent to three dollars but today, my two naira cannot buy even one cent. We have really destroyed the economy buy adopting policies that are injurious to the economy of Nigeria and some of these policies were imposed on us by the IMF and the World Bank and it is the IMF and the World Bank policies that we are still operating.

The decision of the Brazilian Senate to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office has been largely clouded in controversy. All around the world, many people who had been hooked by the romantic progress of the one-time political activist through her years of class struggle to her dramatic ascension to the presidency would have been stupefied.

Unidentified gunmen on Thursday kidnapped one Miss Amarachi Okereke at Rumuji community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the state government will continue to support all security agencies in the state to ensure that they are better equipped to fight crime.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, has stated that Nigeria would stop the importation of rice by 2018.
Chief Ogbe said his Ministry was working hard to ensure the realisation of the target which would help the government conserve scarce foreign exchange.

I’m in a steady relationship with a guy who tends to love me as much as I love him. It is true that every relationship has its ups and downs and in my own case, my guy suffers from occasional distrust. I have never cheated on him but he feels that I am doing so. He gets upset that sometimes my vagina is looser than other times. He thinks I’m cheating, but I’m not. I don’t know about my vagina being looser at certain times but I’m sure I have never cheated on him. What’s going on?

Fourteen Oil workers were kidnapped yesterday afternoon around Omoku-Elele link road.