Tanker drivers threaten strike over state of roads

                  

THE Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG,  has threatened to withdraw its service if the Eleme Junction Road leading to the Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers State, was not repaired.

Speaking in Lagos yesterday, National President of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, Mr Salimon Oladiti, said that some members of the group had suffered various degrees of injuries as a result of accidents caused by the bad road.

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D’banj proposes to girlfriend

The founder of DB Records and top entertainer, Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj seems to have proposed to Adama, his rumoured girlfriend and daughter of billionaire oil magnate, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi.

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Boko Haram slaugthering males in Bama –Borno senator

                           

The Senator representing Borno Central in the National Assembly, Ahmed Zannah, on Wednesday raised the alarm that Boko Haram had started massacring teenage and adult males in its drive to expand its caliphate in the North –East.
Zannah, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, also insisted that the insurgents had taken over Bama, a town less than 78 kilomitres from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

“I will sue the Australian negotiator who accused me of sponsoring Boko Haram” – Alimodu Sheriff

                        


Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davis, who was negotiating with Boko Haram on behalf of the Nigerian government, to free the over 200 abducted Chibok school girls, has made numerous allegations about who is sponsoring Boko Haram and how the terrorist group is being funded.
Last week, it was revealed that Davis accused prominent Nigerian politicians, including former Borno State governor, Alimodu Sheriff, of being primary Boko Haram sponsors. He also alleged that the insurgents are being funded through CBN.

Nathan Sogo: Why Are We So Poor?

                       




There can be no argument about the topic which implies that the Nigerian economy is not working for majority of Nigerians. The economy is not working for the poor, students, and people residing in the rural communities, the physically challenged, and the old ones also worse for the unemployed, In Nigeria, there is the issue of youth and employment. 70 per cent of the 80 million youths in Nigeria are either unemployed or underemployed by the statistics given by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Although the recent World Bank report that Nigeria’s poverty level has dropped by 2.1 per cent, this doesn’t change the fact that most Nigerians are poor. Little wonder we pray for peace and security without any answers, in a nation in which there are one hundred million people living in poverty? It is highly unlikely. It is impossible for Nigeria to enjoy sustainable peace or law and order until we address the unbalanced economic growth that creates billionaires in few and poverty and unemployment in hundreds of millions.

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