By Jim Pressman, Freelance Gender Reporter (with Agency report) Finance Minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Labour Minister Barrister Emeka Wogu have been re-drafted alongside other topnotchers of the President Jonathan administration, in the wake of the added NUPENG oil to the labour fire raging in the land. Fourteen months down the road, Nigerians are still waiting for Power to see and sleep in comfort a ...

No president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has gotten away with so much glib talks and platitudes like President Goodluck Jonathan.Even the military   rulers like   Generals  Ibrahim Babangida and late Sani Abacha did not have anything on a platter of gold.Nigerians ensured that their regimes were under constant scrutiny and pressure   with  protests  and agitations for a return to democracy .In spite ...

On August 8, 2012, the second International Youth Day (IYD) lecture, an annual event organised by the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, AFRICMIL, held in Abuja, amid a telling spectacle of displeasure from a generation of young minds who see their lives being shamelessly turned upside down by an enduring chain of Nigeria’s reprobate leadership. AFRICMIL, a youth-focused, irrepressible civil ...

After the needless drama at the Lagos airport when the SSS tried to truncate his trip abroad, Mallam Nasir el Rufai was greeted at his destination with evidence of further misguided action by the Jonathan government. That was the spectacle of the recycled Dr. Doyin Okupe providing a specious political thesis that confirms the crisis of thoughtlessness in government. Dr. Okupe asked that critics of the gover ...

RAMADAN LECTURE BY ABDULHAMID AL-GAZALI DELIVERED TO HILAL ISLAMIC CRESCENT ON 21ND OF RAMADAN, 1433A.H, 10TH AUGUST 2012 INTRODUCTION: Assalamu Alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh, Thanks and glory be to Almighty Allah—the Benevolent and the Merciful—for sparing our lives all to this blessed day of Ramadan. May His peace and blessings be upon His prophet, his household, companions and those who follow their ...

Vox Pop :Since the publication of Elder Stateman Ahmed Joda’s proposal on  the state of the nation by Newsdiaryonline.com, several Nigerians have commented on the issues raised.These comments were sourced  from  internet groups and list –serves.We  serve you some of the views . Prof Bolaji Akinyemi's Ammendments To Ahmed Joda's Yola's Proposal A very thoughtful and comprehensive proposal. My amendment will ...

Informed Nigerians are still wondering why Mrs Mariam Ali,wife of former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party PDP ,Dr Ahmadu Ali  recently got herself involved by  standing  surety  for a man said to be Sierra Leonean on trial in Nigeria over fuel subsidy fraud. Mrs Ali is not only the wife of a former PDP chairman,she is also a special assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Intergovernmental Relations ...

Both President Goodluck Jonathan and Edo state Governor Comrade lay claim to a passion to see everyone mouthing their common slogan “One Man One Vote, One Woman One Vote and One Youth One Vote,” really walk the talk and entrench this fledgling democracy. Jonathan’sAide on Political Matters, Barrister Gulak also called the Press to remind them how serious his principal and party were about no rigging, no thu ...

* Sectarian conflict has social and economic roots * Christian-Muslim violence is worst since Bosnian war * Islamist groups exploit tensions to drive religious agenda By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS, July 11 (Reuters) - Poverty, inequality and injustice are threatening to trigger a broad sectarian conflict in Nigeria, an international Christian-Muslim task force said on Wednesday. Clashes between Nig ...

Governor Wamakko in 2007 declared “what we lacked all these years is the presence of a well coordinated, balanced, goal driven and mutually inclusive approach to questions of leadership and societal development across relevant sectors of our economy and society.”  It was a declaration of intent to open up all sectors as development strategy that would transform total lives of the people of Sokoto State. For ...