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Posted by: Our Reporter on May 20, 2013

Jonathan should ignore IMF’s call to remove fuel subsidy and instead focus on local refining of crude

IT was all so predictable – the International Monetary Fund, IMF’s call for President Goodluck Jonathan to fully remove fuel subsidy, to ensure a so-called fiscal adjustment. On May 9, Williams Scott Rogers, IMF’s senior resident representative/mission chief in Nigeria, told the media Nigeria…

Last week, rumours were rife that President Goodluck Jonathan would declare a state of emergency in either a part or the whole of the Northeast. But presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, responded that no decision had been reached on the matter, even though media reports strongly suggested the decision had all but been reached and was only awaiting the president’s proclamation. Dr Abati was careful not to dismiss the speculations in their entirety. Finally, yesterday, the president…

They” in this piece refers to all the cynics, the pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-appointed activists, the idle and idling, twittering, collective children of anger, the distracted crowd of Facebook addicts, the BBM-pinging soap opera gossips of Nigeria, who seem to be in competition among themselves to pull down President Goodluck Jonathan. This army of sponsored and self-appointed anarchists is so diverse; many of them don’t even know why or how they should attack…

Dr. Babatunde Adejare

House of  Representatives member Dr. Babatunde Adejare (Agege Constituency) spoke with reporters in Lagos on national issues. Deputy Political Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU was there.

Could you…

In this piece,
KUNLE ODEREMI
analyses the controversy triggered by the views of a former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, on the state of the nation.

General Muhammadu Buhari sparingly grants press interviews. It is not a culture or principle he lately acquired. The virtue has been part of him since his first coming as a military head of state in 1983. But his interactions with his supporters on two occasions lately in his capacity as the de…

By Sun News Publishing Friday April 06, 2012

For over one week now, Nigerians have been debating the merits and demerits of the rehabilitation of St. Stephens Anglican Church in President Goodluck Jonathan’s village, Otuoke in Bayelsa State, by a contractor to the Federal Government.

Reports on the recent dedication ceremony of the church quote the president as saying he had complained to the contractor on the aging of his village church, and the company, identified as Gitto…

BY EMMA AGU

NO one who is familiar with the robust nature of the Nigerian Press will be surprised at the criticisms that have trailed the renaming of the Maitama Extension District in Abuja to Jonathan Goodluck District. Nor is there anything new in the argument that public institutions should not be named after serving public functionaries.

Seen from the above perspectives, it becomes easier to understand the controversy over the decision of Federal Capital Territory Minister,…