Abia State: Gov Orji Signs 2014 budget into law
Abia Governor, chief Theodore Orji has signed the 2014 budget of 115.3 billion naira into law. The Abia state chief executive had on the 30th of December 2013 presented a...
Can NATO Contain Russian Advances?
Following its controversial annexation of Crimea, Russia has claimed that it is now withdrawing troops from its border with Ukraine, but NATO officials have expressed doubts that the military power...
Bayelsa experiences 40 oil spills monthly
The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has revealed that Bayelsa State, records about 40 spill cases in a month. The Director General, Dr. Peter Idabor, who disclosed...
Defection: Nigeria Court asks APC lawmakers to resign
ABUJA—A Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, asked all members of the House of Representatives, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to...
2014 Budget War: House queries Okonjo-Iweala over N7.1trillion debt
The House of Representatives, yesterday, faulted the efforts of the Finance Minister and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to present the state of the economy...
Gov. Okorocha And 84 Katsina Youths Deportation: The Matters Arising
On a more serious note and still on the gov Okorocha’s deportation of 84 youths of Hausa origin, Katsina state from our state, Imo as reported by Vanguard Newspaper of...
Nigeria: Expensive leaders, poor economy
The hope of better life for Nigerians after long era of terrible military rule, which culminated eventually into democracy in 1999, seemed dashed with emergence of profligate politicians and flamboyant...
Uduaghan: Bringing forth Delta State
The seed of transformation planted by Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in Delta State did not appear at first dawn. Like a woman in pregnancy, Uduaghan’s manifestation started with some queasiness, the...
2015: Jonathan can’t deny one-term pact with North —Nyako
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, yesterday, concurred with his Niger State counterpart, Muazu Aliyu Babangida, that President Goodluck Jonathan actually signed an agreement with them to serve for a...
My plans for this year for Nigeria— Jonathan
ABUJA—PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday promised Nigerian youths more jobs this year and improved well-being for the citizenry through focused implementation of the Transformation Agenda. In a six-page, 2896-word New Year...