Leaders of Ikara Community, Ikpoba–Okha Local Government Area, Edo State have expressed concern on the recent news that the Federal Government is planning to collaborate with Host Communities of Nigeria, HOSTCOM, in the screening and engagement of 10,000 Niger-Delta youths for pipeline protection/surveillance jobs.

President Muhammadu Buhari devoted part of the 57th Independence anniversary speech to remind campaigners for the dismemberment of Nigeria of the horrendous experience  of Nigeria’s civil war between 1967 and 1970.

Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Hon. Minister of Budget and National Planning, outlines the plan of the Buhari administration to create a sustainable national econmy
I remember the independence celebrations in 1960. Even as a six-year old, I felt the significance of that momentous event. We were living in Aba at the time but my parents travelled to Lagos to witness the hoisting of the new Nigerian flag at the Race Course.

Fairness and professional obligation demands that we hear the other party in a situation of conflict and disagreement, and so I intend to do precisely that this week, in response to the developing scenarios between the Buhari administration and the Biafran separatist agitators, the IPOB, which it has labelled a “terrorist organization.”

Dr Usman Bugaje, an intellectual, served as Political Adviser in the Presidency under the Obasanjo administration. In this piece, Bugaje, also a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), diagnoses Nigeria at 57 and points the way forward.