When the “greatest democ racy on earth” appears to hesitate in a choice between a demagogue and a competent woman, one knows that signs of a bigger problem have long been ignored.

An aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, who is facing corruption trial, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of mounting pressure on him to incriminate former first lady, Patience Jonathan.

Algeria’s World Cup dreams are over no thanks to the Eagles who will continue to punish the North Africans for ‘killing’ Nigeria’s Mundial ambitions on home soil in 1981. This is the submission of Pillar of Sports, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.

When former Super Eagles captain and coach Sunday Oliseh sought to cap Carl Ikeme the original plan was for him to be back up to AFCON winner Vincent Enyeama.

AGGRIEVED indigenes of Ogidigben, Ajudaibo and Mandagho, Itsekiri riverine communities in Warri South West Local Government Area, Delta State, protesting alleged abandonment by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, have shut operations at the Shell Flow Station in Ogidigben.

Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has commended the Federal Government over its decision to suspend the Financial Reporting Council, FRCN’s recently released Code of Corporate Governance.

In a bid to offer solutions to the problems facing the dairy sector in West Africa and develop a sustainable business model for the dairy industry in the sub-region, European and West African dairy farmers had a two-day multi-stakeholder roundtable conference to discuss new business models with the aim of creating employment and profit for the local dairy farmers in West Africa on Wednesday in Abuja.

Nigeria’s foreign exchange market may have taken a new turn as a rare movement in exchange rate happened between Monday and yesterday with massive swing in the value of Naira in the interbank official market against relative stability in the parallel market.

Dangote Group said its 650,000 barrels per day capacity refinery currently under construction in Lagos would come on stream by the end of 2018.

FOLLOWING from comments made here last week about how some members of the Buhari administration have been shifting the goal post in terms of when Nigerians can expect to begin to see the gains of a Buhari presidency , I wish to underline some points. Leaders have both to be focused and inspirational. That to me is the whole point of last week’s piece.

The death of Lt Col. Muhammed Abu Ali and six other troops cast a pall on the nation, opening the month of November on a sad note. Those deaths were preceded in September and October by some other casualties in the war theatre. Before them other gallant soldiers had paid the supreme price in the war to rid Nigeria of Boko Haram terrorists. And before that there have been thousand others that died securing the fatherland.

THE Senate said it would soon begin moves to amend the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, Act No. 81 of 1992.

Our presence in the system has contributed so much towards eradication of the malpractices

As voting continues in the U.S presidential election, Donald Trump of the Republican party takes the state of West Virginia in addition to Indiana and Kentucky to be on the lead while his rival, Democratic Hillary Clinton cliched one state to trail behind.

STRONG indications emerged yesterday that a fresh war between the Senate and the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB may have reared its head as the upper chambers has begun probe into alleged abandoned N8 billion office project by the bureau.