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Nigerians May Starve To Death By 2050 The Federal Government is making a security arrangement whereby farmers in the country will pay fees for protection from kidnappers while in their farms.The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, dropped the hint yesterday in Abuja while speaking with State House correspondents after the Federal […]

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter With  the Imo State rerun elections for the Okigwe senatorial seat and three Local Government Areas coming up on Saturday, the All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party to rig the polls. The Imo State Chairman of the APC, Dr. […]

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has called for peace within the state’s political class, stressing the need to practice politics driven by development. The governor explained that friendship in politics, irrespective of political party affiliations, would help to grow the nation’s democracy and engender development. Speaking in Port Harcourt […]

Submitted by Judith Bergmann via The Gatestone Institute, “All the bullying happens in Arabic… The hierarchy of the Arab boys creates a very violent environment. … I have filmed the particularly vile bullying of a Somali boy. You can see the tears in his eyes. They are destroying him; it is very violent. “ — […]

“It’s unclear why this hasn’t been a significant driver of markets across the board… maybe we just haven’t hit the threshold,” exhorts $234 billion bond fund Invesco’s Ray Yu. The head of the firm’s macro research told Bloomberg that a general theme of political risks increasing or political risk premium has been prevailing for the […]Read More

By Danielle DiMartino-Booth Having spent a chunk of his youth “shopping” them, Jim Croce came to know a thing or two about junkyards. In those youthful days, should his clunker de jour be missing some vital part or parts, a trolling expedition through South Philly’s scrap heaps was always the enterprising Croce’s preferred method of […]Read More

Update 3: Chris Christie unloaded on Cruz… (as Politico reports) Chris Christie did not mince words for Ted Cruz after the Texas senator refused to endorse Donald Trump on the prime-time convention stage Wednesday night. “It was an awful, selfish speech by someone who tonight, through the words he said on that stage, showed everybody […]

News Recall Sacked Workers, FG Tells Oil Firms The Federal Government has asked oil majors, which recently sacked some of their workers, to recall the affected employees. In order to retain jobs in the oil and gas sector, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, also asked the firms to reduce the salaries […]

Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin  has  been forced resign as the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation. His resignation is a fallout of the 2016 budget appropriation. In a press briefing Wednesday, the lawmaker said he resigned after extensive consultations with his family members. In the wake of the passage of the 2016 budget, Jibrin […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent to the Senate, a letter nominating former Deputy Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Mr. Nsima Ekere and former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, as the Managing Director and the Chairman respectively of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).  The nomination letter sent to Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday Wednesday, may […]

Submitted by Nick Colas of Convergex Viva Las Vegas – The Gambler’s Fallacy The Dow has closed at a record high for nine days in a row, so it (and U.S. equities generally) MUST be ready for a pullback, right?  Not so fast.  Thinking that reversion to the mean happens swiftly and reliably is something […]Read More

Submitted by Craig Boudreau via The Daily Caller, A group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice. The Polar Ocean Challenge is taking a two month journey that will see them […]