Attempts by some “hawks in the presidency” to use the immediate past national coordinator on counter-terrorism, Ambassador Zakari Ibrahim, as a scapegoat amidst insecurity in the country may have backfired. A national daily had reported tha...
Modern technology and latest security gadgets are to be used in the war on terror. This was one of the decisions taken at an emergency Council of State meeting convened by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, yesterda...
Now that the clouds are clear, we know to which direction those who have been handed our economy want to take us. At least, we now know they are pursuing serious fiscal discipline that focuses on reducing wastage that our bloated government is synonymo...
Yesterday, September 6, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan turned 100 days in office. As usual, Nigerians are ventilating their views on his performance so far with majority of them expressing disappointment with his scorecard. Group Political Editor, F...
Alhaji Abubakar Tsav is former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State. In this encounter with SOLOMON AYADO, the fiery social crusader condemns the spate of bombing in the country and evaluates the 100 days in office of President Goodluck Jonathan. Pres...
The nation’s foreign exchange reserves fell to $32.3 billion by September 2, the same level they were on June 24, and down from a 6-month high in August, the central bank’s latest figures showed yesterday. The nation’s foreign reserve...
The nation’s banking industry ratings could be upgraded as capital ratios are expected to rise to 20 per cent next year, from their current 14 per cent, the country’s oldest ratings agency told Reuters yesterday. A senior Agusto & Co. o...
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the construction of 765KV super-grid transmission network to address the nation’s power challenge, Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has disclosed. The minister made the disclosure yesterday at a speci...
For the purpose of economic growth and development, job opportunity and generation of wealth, the federal government is proposing to carry out a comprehensive restructuring of the Free Trade Zones (FTZs) in the country. FTZs are special industrial and ...
Since President Goodluck Jonathan revealed the idea of a single term six-year tenure for the president and state governors, a lot has been written, ridiculing him for his astonishing misplacement of priorities. There have also been a few voices in his ...
Since the conduct of the re-scheduled National Assembly polls in April 2011, the good people of Anambra North Senatorial zone have not been represented in the upper legislative chamber partly because of the series of legal challenges mounted by differe...
People do things for different reasons. Most of the time, we daily go about our business without ever stopping to give a thought to why school-age children are on the streets hawking instead of in school. The need to earn a living is why 21-year-old Fo...
We all know who the paper boy is. He’s the newspaper vendor who brings the dailies to your office, or sells to you along the streets or at traffic junctions. But who are the ‘paper girls’? CHRISTIANA ESEBONU writes that in a bid to su...
Osa Okhomina, Yenagoa Correspondent uncovers Governor Sylva’s many battles for his re-election bid in 2012. When hundreds of disabled persons converged at the Isaac Boro Peace Park to offer prayers for the re-election of the Bayelsa State Governo...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hinted that the new policies governing imports currently being prepared by the Economic Management Team would have a five-year tenure. This, the president, said would enable the government, its agencies and other s...