President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday rewarded members of the under seventeen World Golden Eaglets that won the maiden edition of the youth soccer championship in China in 1985. Members of the squad were given monetary rewards along side the winners of last year’s FIFA organized U 17 Championship in Chile.

WE are deeply disturbed by what appears as the renewal of conflict in the Niger Delta between the so-called militants and the armed forces after over seven years of peace and calm in our oil-rich region.

It has been an annual ritual for January 15, of every year to be remembered in special ways by various political interest groups, including the Nigerian Armed Forces. The reason for this is not farfetched. Apart from the day Nigeria was amalgamated in 1914 and the day she got her Independence from the British colonialists, January 15, 1966 was the day that the destiny of Nigeria was totally and painfully redefined. It was the day a bloody coup that ended the First Republic and brought in the military also triggered a counter-coup that plunged Nigeria into its historic civil war.

Nigeria  must watch the  new frontier of conflict which is developing between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran with keen interest and grave concern. These influential and powerful Muslim countries in the perennially conflict-riddled Middle East  took their simmering animosities to active mode when Saudi  Arabia  executed radical Shiite cleric, […]

THE revelation that the 2016 budget of the Federal Government got missing or had been faked is the latest political fascination to have enraptured the polity.