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 I have grown and watched you criticize  regime  after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn’t this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria’s woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a  great deal  of it unaccounted for. If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three. 1. The law of identity 2. The law of excluded middle 3. The law of non contradiction. Now let’s look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice. 1. The law of identity The law of identity means  that things  are what they are, which at first doesn’t seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are

Gen. Aliyu Gusau (Zamfara) -  Minister  of Defense Senator Musilliu Obanikiro (Lagos) - Minister of State Defense Mohammed Wakil (Borno) - Minister of State Power Abduljelili Adesiyan (Osun) - Minister of  Police  Affairs Amb. Aminu Wali (Kano) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Mrs. Akon Eyakenyi (Akwa Ibom) - Minister of Lands/Housing Lawrencia Laraba  Mala  (Kaduna) - Minister of Environment Dr. Tamuno Dangogo ( Rivers ) - Minister of Sports Hajjia Asabe Ahmed (Niger) - Minister of State Agriculture Boni  Haruna  (Adamawa) - Minister of Youth Development Dr. Khaliru Alhassan (Sokoto) - Minister of State Health

A meeting of governors of the  South East  geo-political zone of the country ended yesterday in a deadlock as the chief executives could not produce a successor to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state as chairman of their Forum. Governor  Rochas Okorocha  of Imo State, the only All Progressives Congress (APC) governor in the zone did not attend the meeting which sources said was primarily called to select a successor to Governor Obi who would be completing his second term as governor of Anambra State on March 17. The Governors present , left the venue of the meeting in Enugu after protracted closed door deliberations without taking  a  group photograph  or addressing newsmen as had been their practice, fuelling speculations that they could not agree on the choice of Governor of Abia state, Chief Theodore Orji, who before the meeting the odds favoured. Those who attended the crucial summit were Governor Obi, the host, Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu state who made a surprise a

The  Nigerian Petroleum  Development Company Limited (NPDC) has  said  $6billion was remitted to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC/NPDC account which warehouses all of NPDC’s revenue earnings from its operations.  The Managing Director of NPDC,  Mr. Victor Briggs,  who stated this yesterday in a statement, said the reports quoting the company as denying receiving the sum of $6 billion from its  parent company , NNPC, being proceeds from NPDC’s oil and gas operations, “are misleading and do not reflect the contents of what was submitted to the Senate Committee on Finance”  This is as the NNPC yesterday denied entering into any form of oil business with two Swiss oil  trading companies , Vitol and Trafigura, to defraud Nigerians  of billions of  United States dollars . Mr. Briggs in the statement said: “For the avoidance of doubt, NPDC in its submission stated that the funding relationship between NNPC and NPDC provides for proceeds from Hydrocarbon sales to be pa

THE Acting Minister of  Foreign Affairs , Prof.  Viola Onwuliri, has said that the ministry is closely monitoring the development in Ukraine and will evacuate Nigerians in the country if the crisis escalates. Onwuliri made the plan known to reporters during a dinner for workers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja on Tuesday. ``The  Nigerian Embassy  in Ukraine is in touch with our nationals in Ukraine and if the situation demands, we may have to evacuate,’’ she said. According to the minister, there are about 7,000 Nigerians in Ukraine. On the presence of Russian forces in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, Onwuliri said Nigeria was a ``non-aligned nation’’ and would not support any party in the ongoing dispute in Ukraine. ``We will always study situations before we draw conclusions. That is what we are doing at this time,’’ she said.

• Marketers push for rise in pump price AS the fuel scarcity continues to cripple economic activities nationwide, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has attributed the shortfall in supply to non-renewal of contracts of some independent marketers to import the product.    Meanwhile, the current fuel scarcity in some parts of the country is principally caused by marketers’ subterranean ploy to stampede government into increasing the pump price, The Guardian has gathered.    But the government is seeking ways of ending the artificial scarcity without bowing to pressure from marketers to increase the pump price.    In a related development,  Trade Union Congress (TUC) has called for an end to the fuel scarcity.   The DPR, which disclosed this yesterday at its budget defence before the  Senate Committee  on Petroleum (Upstream), also alleged that non-payment of subsidy fund to the marketers by government had hindered the importation of the product, resulting in shortage in

Coach  Stephen Keshi has dropped skipper, Joseph Yobo from Nigeria’s preparation for the World. He has been replaced with unknown Fortuna  Dusseldorf   defender   Leon  Balogun for the international friendly against Mexico on Wednesday after injury to captain Joseph Yobo. The team’s media officer Ben Alaiya confirmedl that Yobo picked up an  injury . “Yobo is out of this friendly against Mexico for injury reasons and has been replaced by Fortuna Dusseldorf’s Leon Balogun. “He is already here with us in Atlanta,” Alaiya said. Dusseldorf confirmed through their  official website  that Balogun has been invited for the friendly. ”For the first time defender Leon Balogun was invited by the Nigerian  Football Federation  for the national team. On Wednesday, 5 March he will take part in a friendly match against Mexico. The match will be played in Atlanta, America,” read the statement.

Aliko Dangote foremost Nigerian industrialist and philanthropist has endowed Dangote Foundation with N200 billion. Speaking in Lagos, Mr. Dangote noted that, “Dangote foundation is now 20 years old. This initial endowment will assure that Dangote Foundation has secure and steady funding to carry out its mission as we significantly scale up our work. The reconstituted  board of trustees  includes, Aliko Dangote, Sani Dangote, Halima Aliko Dangote, Olakunle Alake, A B Mahmoud (SAN), Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Angela Adebayo, Hajara Adeola and Yvonne Ike. And last year we appointed Adhiambo Odaga,  Managing Director  to grow the Dangote Foundation team. The stage is set now for the next stage of our institutional growth.” Mr. Dangote further stated that, “Going forward- from the  second quarter of this year, we will lay greater emphasis on youth and women empowerment through large scale efforts that cultivate meaningful change in their lives.”

Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has charged northern leaders to   negotiate   with Boko Haram just as their compatriots from the Niger Delta region did to militants some few years ago. He noted that the belated condemnation by the northern leaders of attacks by the Boko Haram Islamic group was not enough. “Once political,   religious leaders   and the elites in the north go into negotiation with the   terrorist group , the end to insurgency will come,” Ndoma-Egba stated in an interview in Calabar on Monday. He also appealed to the insurgents to lay down their arms and go into dialogue with the authorities. The Senate Leader noted that those who have taken up arms against the state were not ghosts hence their kinsmen should call them to a dialogue to ascertain their grievances and what should be done.

Today, over a billion   Catholics   around the world are celebrating  Ash Wednesday, the official beginning of   Lent   in the faith, without any idea of the history or meaning behind the celebration. While Catholicism seems to be the religion that most people identify Lent and Ash Wednesday with, the truth of the matter is that many other Christian religions celebrate these as well, including Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians. Many may have an idea what Lent is all about, but few know its origins and true purpose. While the true origin of the practice is not known, there are many writings from the third and fourth centuries that speak of a period of fasting leading up to the celebration of the death and resurrection of   Jesus Christ . The early practice of the custom seemed to be centered around the baptizing of persons on Easter. Christians would fast for the forty days leading up to Easter, as a preparation for being baptized. Fasting, in this manner, was see