Many delegates to the on-going National Conference were taken aback yesterday when His Royal Highness Lamido Adamawa Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha said that oil-bearing states should be allowed to receive 100 per cent revenue accruing from their resources. Mustapha also said that states that do not have oil should be allowed to receive 100 per cent…
Following continued air and land strikes on Boko Haram terrorists in the hills and forests of the North-East, an officer of the Nigerian Army and four soldiers have been killed in an ambush by the terrorists, while scores of the sect members were killed in the shootout that ensued. The death of the soldiers came…
Members of the House of Representatives, yesterday ,mandated its committee on security to invite the National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, rtd, the Minister of Defence, General Aliyu Gusau, rtd, and the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to appear before the House and explain what led to last week’s killings of Nigerians in Zamfara…
ON Saturday, April 5th, South Africa was Africa’s largest economy. The IMF put its GDP at $354 billion last year, well ahead of its closest rival for the crown, Nigeria. By Sunday afternoon that had changed. Nigeria’s statistician-general announced that his country’s GDP for 2013 had been revised from 42.4 trillion naira to 80.2 trillion…
The President and his Finance experts were under attack yesterday over the “necessary” but “unrealistic” rebasing of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The rebasing makes the country Africa’s largest economy. To Labour, a good GDP without jobs is meaningless. A governor advised President Goodluck Jonathan to face the reality in the land – hunger, unemployment…
The ongoing National Conference is a lesson in ironies and incongruities. We have on our hands a situation in which many old men are at the confab to fashion out for the country a future that they will likely not be a part of. Please, don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that some…
Like other Nigerians, I came across the above titled advert which was published in almost all the newspapers in the country.
Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State and wife, Unoma (2nd left); Lady Valerie Ebe, Deputy Governor Akwa Ibom State (1st left); Hon. Udo Kirian Akpan, Deputy Speaker Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly; Mr. Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, Secretary to the State Government and wife,Martha (1st right) at the Memorial Service in Honour of Biafrans…
WITH clear unanimity, delegates, yesterday, decried the increasing rate of insecurity and corruption in the country, noting that unless these two problems were adequately tackled, the country’s search for peace might remain elusive. Almost all the delegates who spoke at the first session of the resumed debate on President Goodluck Jonathan’s inaugural speech toed this…
NKECHI was full of life and in high spirits. She was nine months pregnant and was already feeling the contractions of labour at well-spaced intervals. She had no expectation of problems and was hopeful of a normal delivery. She woke very early on the D-Day, dressed up and packed her bags. The hospital was over…