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  Popularly known as  Naija Pastor  and one of the most loved voices on radio, Award winning On-Air Personality  Sabina is on to something new and innovative! She is currently working on a project she tagged THE RE-EMERGENCE. Read all about it below: “I am a Nigerian, I possess the Nigerian Spirit and to mark the 100 years of the amalgamation in 2014, which coincides with my 10 years on stage musically, I am teaming up with every Nigerian possessing the same SPIRIT including you to join up on THE RE - EMERGENCE. THE RE - EMERGENCE is not your regular show or event; it is a lot of things blended together to pass across the message of national conscientiousness, honour, and pride. For decades, pre colonial, colonial and post colonial we have seen Nigeria in variety of colours. Nigerians have drawn diverse conclusions owing to the different forms of government, leadership, and eras as it were . It is a catalogue of emotions when y...

The Ministry of Aviation has set up an “unofficial probe team” to get the identities of those who leaked information on the purchase of two BMW 760 Li HSS cars by Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, Stillonstill.blogspot.com has learnt. The search, it was gathered, has been narrowed down to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). However, staff of other agencies, including the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), will also be questioned for any possible link. Since the news broke out, several individuals and groups have called for the sack of Ms. Oduah for choosing to stifle an agency which insiders say is cash strapped. But rather than take a stand on what action it intends to take, the presidency has given conflicting reactions. On one hand, it claims the story would be probed, even as it also maintains that such details should not have been allowed to get into the media in the first place. An offic...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, said the army had commenced massive recruitment to tackle the security challenge in the country. Ihejirika said this while opening a five-day seminar organised by the army’s Department of Civil-Military Affairs at the 2 Div. Odogbo, Ibadan on Monday. “I have commenced the recruitment of 9,000 persons in our various training institutions’’, Ihejirika said. The COAS, represented by Maj. Gen. John Ewansiha, said the objective of the seminar was to foster better working relations with civil society organisations toward winning hearts and minds. Ihejirika reiterated the intention of the army to train and retrain its officers in order to meet the security challenge of the country. “Indeed, the Nigerian army is currently occupied with domestic challenges in several parts of the country, especially in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States’’, he said. The Chief of Civil-Military A...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday said Nigerians needed qualitative education to secure a better future for the country. Obasanjo spoke at the first graduation of the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) where he was conferred with honorary doctorate degrees with three others. He said the country’s youths needed to be well groomed in the areas of sound education as well as unassailable character to hold the position of future leaders. The former president described education as “the most potent instrument to fight poverty as well as best instrument to protect democracy”. Obasanjo expressed delight in the contributions of Babalola to the growth of education in the country, and urged other citizens to emulate him. He also asked Babalola to go into full time politics to be able to contribute more to the development of the country. “If a single man like Afe Babalola can single handedly make his impact kno...

A socio-political group, the Rivers Peoples Forum, has accused the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike and the State’s Chairman of the Peoples Democratic, PDP, Felix Obuah of playing politics with the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan. The group in a statement signed by its President, Charles Bekwele alleged that Obuah has made himself a servant to Wike. According to him, “Again, on Saturday October 19, 2013, one ‘Bro Felix Obuah’, who pompously, albeit delusionary parades himself as a factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State continued on his grossly thoughtless, ill-mannered and horrid, though fruitless mission of denigrating and disparaging the person and office of the Governor of Rivers State and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, CON. “It is important to note that this Obuah character is a lackey and domestic servant of Minister of State for Educ...

Frontline Activist and Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has added his voice to the crisis currently rocking the aviation sector. The ace legal practitioner called on the embattled Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to within seven days release information on the acquisition of the two BMW bulletproof cars it bought for the Minister of Aviation, Ms;. Stella Oduah. Falana further asked that the Managing Director of NCAA, Mr. Fola Akinkuotu to as matter of urgency release the requested information by the virtue of the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Falana in the letter urged the aviation industry to supply “all the documents relating to the purchase of the cars, including budgetary approval and due process for the entire transaction”. The letter dated October 21, 2013, was written on behalf of the activist by one Mr. Adedotun Isola-Osobu, one of his lawyers. The letter reads, “In your press conference at Abuj...

The former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, on Monday called for the devolution of powers between the federal, state and local governments in the spirit of true federalism. Babangida made the call when the Chairman of Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Chief Elias Mbam, paid him a visit at his residence in Minna. The former president said that besides proper devolution of powers, there was need for a review of revenue sharing formula in favour of the states and the local government councils. He said that a greater percentage of revenue should go to the state and local governments because their closeness to the masses. The former military president also canvassed for diversification of the economy from the current mono-source – oil, to other revenue alternatives. Babangida commended the commission for carrying out its assignment diligently in spite of the challenges. Earlier, Mbam said the visit wa...