(1) If you want to know what is wrong with Nigeria as a nation, look no further than this jet fighter, the Grumman F6F, popularly known as the Hellcat. It was what won the Battle of the Pacific for the US during World War Two
(2) After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941, they dominated the skies in the battle of the Far East as their jet fighter, the Mitsubishi A6M known as the Zero, shot Americans planes out of the sky in a turkey shoot
FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has come under attack from the government for owing foreign staff who worked for his agency Gotel Africa Media months of salary arrears that runs into thousands of dollars.
BAUCHI State's Governor Bala Mohammed has been hospitalised in London for an undisclosed ailment in what has become the latest incidence of a Nigerian public official seeking medical treatment in the UK.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has signed Nigeria's 2020 Finance Bill into law enacting this year's annual budget aimed at getting the economy off to a good start with an emphasis on infrastructural development.
NIGERIAN billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote has pledged to pit in a renewed bid for English Premier League giants Arsenal in 2021 once he has finished the construction of the petroleum refinery he is currently building in Lagos.
CHAIRMAN of Nigeria's Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (Pacac) and close adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari Professor Itse Sagay has thrown his weight behind the establishment of the regional security outfit Operation Amotekun.
[1] Amotekun is not perfect and a lot still needs to be worked out to prevent it becoming an uncontrollable paramilitary force outside the ambit of the law but it is a good idea in principle. Having a regional security that provides intelligence to the police and armed forces is a good thing as local people know the terrain and know where all the criminals are hiding out in their communities
NIGERIAN crude oil production has grown to a four year high of 2.2m barrels a day over the last month as output has been stepped up in defiance of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) directive limiting daily supply to 1.77m barrels.
(1) Today is January 12. On this day in 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Council was founded with Martin Luther King Jr as its leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta
(2) On January 12 1948, Mahatma Gandhi began his final fast in the quest for Indian independence
PAN-Igbo cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has proposed the creation of a security outfit to be codenamed Operation Ogbunigwe for the southeast geo-political zone following the successful launch of a similar body called Operation Amotekun in the southwest.
FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has come under attack from the government for owing foreign staff who worked for his agency Gotel Africa Media months of salary arrears that runs into thousands of dollars.
BAUCHI State's Governor Bala Mohammed has been hospitalised in London for an undisclosed ailment in what has become the latest incidence of a Nigerian public official seeking medical treatment in the UK.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has signed Nigeria's 2020 Finance Bill into law enacting this year's annual budget aimed at getting the economy off to a good start with an emphasis on infrastructural development.
NIGERIAN billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote has pledged to pit in a renewed bid for English Premier League giants Arsenal in 2021 once he has finished the construction of the petroleum refinery he is currently building in Lagos.
CHAIRMAN of Nigeria's Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (Pacac) and close adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari Professor Itse Sagay has thrown his weight behind the establishment of the regional security outfit Operation Amotekun.
NIGERIAN crude oil production has grown to a four year high of 2.2m barrels a day over the last month as output has been stepped up in defiance of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) directive limiting daily supply to 1.77m barrels.
PAN-Igbo cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has proposed the creation of a security outfit to be codenamed Operation Ogbunigwe for the southeast geo-political zone following the successful launch of a similar body called Operation Amotekun in the southwest.
