Impeccable sources from Umuahia, Abia State capital can confirm the embattled and desperate Governor TA Orji has hurriedly dissolved the State Executive Council with immediate effect to checkamate a planned embarrassment and mass resignation of the cabinet .

He fired all the commissioners on monday the 28th of june, retaining only the commissioners for works, who happens to be his cousin and the Attorney General and commissioner for justice from Ohafia.

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is again troubled by the apparent lack of nationalism on the part of our political leadership by choosing to hold a two-day conference on Nigeria’s 50th Independence anniversary holding in London from today, Monday, June 28 to June 29, 2010.

Great /Nigerians and friends of Nigeria: The Federal Government has earmarked N10 billion for the 50th Independence day celebrations. As part of this profligate waste of funds there is currently a 2 day jamboree at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, in Park Lane, London, W1K 7TN. There has been no press release on the purpose of this conference, or why it is being held in one of the most expensive hotels in one of the most expensive cities, 6000km from our nation’s capital

In the 12 years since Nigeria's corrupt dictator General Sani Abacha died in office, investigators have struggled to find out what happened to the estimated £2.2bn he siphoned out of his country's coffers during his brutal five-year rule.

Though at least $700m (£470m) has been returned to Nigeria, only a handful of people have ever been put on trial for their role in the brazen kleptocracy.

But in a historic move, a court in Jersey has sentenced one of Abacha's business associates to six years in the island's only jail, after he deposited in a St Helier bank account tens of millions of pounds from a deal to provide overpriced trucks to the Nigerian army.

Dear Rev. Father, the question still lingers, why have we lost this communality? Catholicism and Pentecostalism exalt in flamboyancy and derides the Puritan type of Christianity, otherwise called, Puritanism. To be frank with you, “oath taking” may be good, but the people can only be secured and redeemed, when they have earnestly come to embrace the true nature of life and death

Recently 150 men who reside predominantly in the north of Nigeria held a meeting in Abuja to accomplish an unusual objective, to wit: How to prevent Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2011 Presidential Primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, thus paving the way for someone from their ranks to emerge as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in May 2011.

This a fable about the - Legendary Nigerian Northerner and Southerner - The next paragraph is the body of a story conveyed me, by a friend about his recent and first visit to the North. I had gone over to his place...to hand him an information pamphlet about the upcoming 2011 ELECTIONS. I was seated on an unsteady bench covered with sharp splinters, in his backyard, when he proceeded to tell me about his interesting trip to the North.