"Alarm bells are ringing...Shale Gas, the product of advanced technology is gradually eroding the anticipated prospects of natural gas as a major income stream of the Federal Government. We are running out of years of abundance..." In the Bible and the Qur’an, Joseph/Yusuf, the great interpreter of dreams, warns the King of Egypt of seven years of abundance, which would be followed by seven dreadful lean ye ...

The ECOWAS Commission has on the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Police appointed DCP Subair Olusola Kamar as the Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of the African-led International Assistance Mission to Mali (AFISMA). Until his appointment, DCP Kamar was the DCP Administration in the Department of Training at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. A graduate of the University of Paris VIII, in St Deni ...

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has warned cattle rearers whose animals destroy farm crops to desist from such acts or face dire consequences. Dr Uduaghan who gave this warning at the 20th Annual session of the Delta State Baptist Conference in Oghara while reacting to complaints from farmers of the massive destruction of their crops by cattle said the land owners who rent their lands to Fulani ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the nation’s security agencies to take all necessary action to locate and rescue the foreign construction workers who were abducted from their camp by terrorists yesterday in Bauchi State. A statement by Presidential Spokesman ,Reuben Abati said President Jonathan  commiserates with the family of the guard who was reportedly killed in the attack on Jamaáre, Bauchi Sta ...

The Alhaji Sadeeq Masalla faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has formally rejected the election of Chief Maxi Okwu and Alhaji Sani Shinkafi as interim National Chairman and Secretary respectively for the party. Masalla at a press conference in Abuja described the announcement by Chief Tim Menakaya, after the party’s National Caucus as “not only laughable but equally negates the constitution o ...

By Osaretin Ekiadolor President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC has over the last 25 years of its creation sustained road safety consciousness among Nigerian road users. The President also directed the FRSC to produce an action plan that would address the unfriendly road usage by tanker drivers who block parts of the highways as they park on interstate roads causing cons ...

Since 2010, the integrity of the highest level of political leadership in Benue State has been challenged in the media, in the public, in the courts and before election Tribunals for reasons of certificate forgery. Previously; allegations of Certificate Forgery were made against the person of the Executive Governor of Benue State; Rt. Hon. Dr. Gabriel Torwua Suswam; first by one Chidozie Ukpabi in the Septe ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has congratulated First Lady Patience Jonathan for her miraculous return from the dead, while slamming the presidency for losing whatever is left of its credibility over its handling of the First Lady's illness saga. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the revelation by the First Lady on the ex ...

Many politicians have pushed Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, former Governor of Abia State erroneously thinking that he would become weak, but he has always turned the supposedly weakness into strength. Kalu never doubts himself. And this is why he sees clearly into anything around him. Hardly does he judge people, even though there seem to be judges everywhere. Conversely, Kalu has always risen above other contrary ju ...

Reports emanating from the  Presidential Villa said Wife of Nigeria’s  President ,Patience Jonathan on Sunday held a special thanksgiving service at the Aso Rock Chapel during which she confirmed that she had actually taken ill  and ‘passed out for more than a week’.The service was to mark  her return from medical trip overseas. Patience reportedly  said: “It was not an easy experience for me. “I actually d ...