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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ben Ogbemudia, Media Officer, Insurance FC of Benin, says the club has recruited five new players to fortify the team ahead of the Nigeria National League (NNL) second stanza. Ogbemudia said this in Benin on Monday that the players were three strikers and two midfielders. He said the aim was to provide options to the coaching crew and boost the chances of the club playing in the elite division next season. The media officer said Insurance, which currently occupies the 7th position with 24 points, would approach the second stanza with a fresh vigour. “We are not leaving anything to chance which is why we have engaged more players to boost the squad. “Aside the fact that we have been getting the needed support from the government, we are also working to ensure the club is promoted to the elite league. “We have gotten a matching order from the state Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, who has been very supportive with his presence in our home matches, to ensure we ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Sen. Bola Tinubu, says without the uncompromising resistance to military rule engendered by the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, there would probably not have been a 4th Republic today. Tinubu said this in a message on Sunday night entitled ‘What June 12 Taught Us’, to mark the 24th anniversary of the annulled presidential election, believed to have been won by Chief Moshood Abiola. Abiola, who insisted on his mandate after the annulment by the then military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, was later arrested and died in detention on July 7, 1998 on the verge of being released. Tinubu said: ”The annulment was a bitter pill to swallow, especially for the millions of people who expended so much time, energy and material resources to help ensure victory for Chief MKO Abiola. ”The annulment was meant to halt the unstoppable and irresistible march to deeper democratic practice in Nigeria. That objective failed wo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J My brain has got cracking again!  All things being equal, I should be a happy Nigerian because my country, Nigeria is in a joyous mood, celebrating about 18 years of unobstructed democracy. It is the longest period ever in our beleaguered political history, as a nation, since independence in 1960 that civilians would hold democratic power uninterrupted for this long. Many things are wrong with my country. I mean, so many issues in our public life aren’t just the normal; but the absurd. Like other patriotic Nigerians, I feared for my country; I constantly besieged God Almighty in prayers to free us from this internal servitude anchored by our own masters and show us the way to prosperity as a nation and a people. At last, God answered, not just my prayers, but that of millions of Nigerians, when in 2015, by divine  providence he allowed Nigerians take their destiny into their hands, by unanimously voting  “change,” as encapsulated by the 2015 APC ca...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Tonnie Iredia With the coming of this year’s workers’ day, the media have been replete with reports on discussions between government and workers concerning the nation’s transparently poor working conditions.  It has indeed become an annual routine of protests and demands from workers and promises by government on how the problems would be redressed soonest. This year, different labour leaders across the nation on or about May Day as usual organized rallies to sensitize government and the nation on their plight. In Edo State, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) drew attention to the failure of former Governor Adams Oshiomhole to honour his promise to pay a minimum wage of N25, 000.   On its part, the leadership of the Abuja chapter of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) warned that workers were running out of patience with government over the delay in the negotiation of a new minimum wage while Bayelsa State, teachers issued a strike threat in Yenogoa ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Dele Sobowale “One, the lingering doubts about his health, while the other was a very pervasive allegation that he had a manipulative wife who had too much influence on him.” Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in Segun Adeniyi’s book, AGAINST THE RUN OF PLAY, pp 133-134. Last month, in my column advising former President Jonathan and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, not to write any rejoinder to the statements credited to them, the confession was made that the book had not been fully read. I also vowed to obtain a copy – “beg, borrow or steal” – and to read the entire book. I did not have to beg, borrow or steal. Segun Adeniyi came to the rescue by sending me a free copy. This is my open appreciation for the generosity – even if undeserved. It took me exactly two days to finish it and there was red ink on virtually every page – right from the Acknowledgements. I start reading every book with a red biro in my hand for underlining and question marks. Any book is discard...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Funmi Komolafe Brethren, we are gradually moving to the end of the fifth month of the year, the month of Grace.  In a few days, God sparing our lives, we shall be   stepping into the sixth month; June.   Indeed the beginning of the  second half of the year. For many of us, the last five months produced amazing testimonies. For others, their major testimony is about to manifest.  Whichever is your situation, you need not stop praying.The point being made here is that at all times, we need God’s guidance. For a man out there, your case is that you are fed up with your job.   The job isn’t giving you desired satisfaction.  You feel like walking out but you are held back by the thoughts of how to feed your family.  So, what is to be done? Walking out isn’t the solution as you may walk into poverty. As a Christian, what to do is to commit that challenge to God Almighty in prayer and ask him for the way forwa...