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Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has struck again; this time President Muhammad u Buhari is his target. One may be tempted to ask: “Is he already regretting the support he has given to the president since before the presidential elections? Or is he already feeling the bite of being out of the present scheme of things?” Speaking at the Conference of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy, ISGPP, Ibadan, the former military leader took a swipe at the Buhari-led administration for its lack of ability to guarantee the change Nigerians need. He subtly cast a vote of no confidence on the Buhari administration with less than approving remarks; “The problem today is that it is doubtful if the current administrative system is imbued with right mix of skills and values to successfully implement a well-articulated programme of change.” This would be a sharp twist in opinion that is easily typical of Obasanjo. In not too distant past, especially before the president

The 2nd leg of the Glo Premier League Super Four Competition kicks off today, February 1, 2016 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, the Nest of Champions. Akwa United will take on Warri Wolves while Nassarawa United will challenge Enyimba FC later on the same day. Contrary to a information posted on the NFF website before the first fixtures, that announced the games for 2pm and 7pm, it has been confirmed that the games will hold by 5pm and 7pm. The League Management Company (LMC) organise a mini-tournament for the top four teams of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) and another for the Nigeria National League (NNL). This is the Super Four tournament. The NPFL is the highest professional football league in Nigeria, that was once called NFF. It was ranked Number 1 in Africa in 2012, and 24th in the World - ahead of the Scottish Football league. It is fed by the immediate lower league, the Nigeria National League (NNL). According to www.thenff.com, "

The Nigerian army had promised to keep the public abreast with information updates on the progress of their campaign to defeat Boko Haram in the Operation Lafiya dole. In a press conference recently, the command released pictures and a statement to show 'Work done recently' even as the Nigerian president Muhamadu Buhari insists that his administration has technically defeated Boko Haram. The Statement: 1. As part of the promise of the Theatre Command to keep the public informed of our activities, this Press Conference has been organised to brief on the activities of the troops in the past few days. Accordingly, in furtherance of the ongoing offensive operations to clear Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) in the Northeast, on 17 January troops conducted a clearance operation at Shentimari general area and cleared Boko Haram enclaves and recovered 78 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition. 2. Similarly, on 18 January at Chukun Gudu, troops encountered and destroyed terrorist’s camp

According to an article by global business researching publishers The Economist, it appears Nigerians and Brazilians dominate the fastest growing subset of Christianity known as Charismatic Christianity. The article titled Ecstasy and Exodus names churches like Winners Chapel (Living Faith), Redeemed Christian Church of God; and Pastors like Sunday Adelaja and Teju Hassan. It also recognizes that Charismatic Christianity evangelism has broken through into previously impervious regions like the UAE, predicting that by 2025, 9.8% of the world will be speaking in tongues, and that presently, the charismatic Christians are carrying out what it calls 'Reverse Missionary' work, taking the gospel to places that first brought them the message of Christianity. Take a read: TEJU HASSAN has come far, and so have most of his flock. Born near Lagos 50 years ago, he converted to Christianity as a young man and now ministers in the far north of Ireland to a multinational congregatio

The Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has waded into the on-going media onslaught between PR managers of the APC gubernatorial candidate, Umana Okon Umana and that of the governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel. The State Chairman of NUJ, Elder Patrick Albert stated this when members of the Coalition of Online Publishers in Akwa Ibom State (COOPA) paid a courtesy call on him in his office on Monday. Elder Patrick said the level of total falsehood, mudslinging, abuse and personal attacks emanating from both camps are alarming, and may degenerate into some bigger if there is no ceasefire. The number one journalist in the state said he has invited media managers of the governor and the APC guber candidate to a roundtable to discuss on better ways of handling PR and media publicity for their principals. Earlier, the Chancellor of Online Publishers in the state, Ifreke Nseowo had decried the rate at which blatant lies is being propagated in the social media i

The fall in the prices of stocks at the Nigerian Stock Exchange has hit an all-time Nigerian low, necessitating the activation of the Index Circuit breaker by the NSE. This implies that on Monday 18th January, the Stock exchange did not trade.  Approved since May 19, 2014 by the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission, the Circuit Breaker has never before been applied in Nigeria. And that is because the economy of the nation had never before fallen this low. The Nigerian stock market lost a fearsome amount of N1.8 trillion in capitalisation within two weeks, an d N1.4 trillion in 10 days.  The market capitalisation has also depressed from N9.86 trillion at the beginning of 2016 to N8.09 trillion as at Friday 15th January. The Stock market lost 17.4% in 2015, but there has been a dip by 17.9% in January 2016. This failure situation at the Nigerian stock market has been caused by the mass exodus of foreign investors away from Nigeria, due to a well documented u