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POVERTY ! Can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is?  I really doubt it. How can anyone who enjoy three square meals a day explain what poverty means? Indeed,can someone who has two full meal a day claim to know poverty? Perhaps,one struggles really hard to have one miserable meal in twenty-four hours. Poverty and hunger are cousins. The former always dragging along the latter wherever he chooses to go. If you are wearing a suit,or a complete traditional attire,and you look naturally rotund in your apparel, you cannot understand what poverty entails. Nor can you have a true feel of poverty if you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers, never mind rhat all these are casual wear. Indeed,if you can change from one dress into another and these are all you can boast of,you are not really poor. A person begin to have a true feel of what poverty means when,apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he doesn't have any other,not even a calico sheet to keep away...

The military authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew in Maiduguri,the Borno state Capital,following Boko Haram attack on the city. The Defence Hq said in a tweet on its twitter handle on Sunday that the curfew was imposed to enable troops pursue fleeing Boko Haram fighters' who attacked the town. "Curfew is imposed on maiduguri with immediate effect till further notice as pursuit of retreating terrorists begin" The tweet read. It was stated in an earlier tweet on Sunday morning that troops were repelling simultaneous attacks on Maiduguri and Mongonu by the insurgents. It was added that the military had launched a co-ordinated  aerial and ground operation against the insurgents. "Troops are repelling a simultaneous attack on Monguno and Maiduguri by Terrorists" . It added that " co-ordinated Air and Land OPs being conducted now". The attack is coming barely 48 hours after military sources hinted of a major operation to flush out the Boko Har...

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof.Attahiru Jega,has assured Nigerians' that its database is well fortified and cannot be hacked as alleged recently. The INEC chairman made the adsertion on Friday evening during a Town Hall meeting hosted by BBC media action's 'Talk Your Own radio' programme,held at protea Hotel,Asokoro,Abuja. Bulletin released by the commission on Saturday said that the INEC Chairman who answered various questions from participants said, 'I can tell you from our own integrity test and from our own knowledge of the security features that we put in place,it is virtually impossible to hack into our system. It does not stop people from trying but we believe they will not succeed. Hacking is possible if your data is online; our data is not online' When asked on the possibility of a staff compromising the data,Prof Jega was quoted to have replied that, 'we have taken stringent measures to ensure our data cannot...

Prime Time News Nigeria: PDP Youths' set APC office ablaze

Youths' suspected to be supporters of the People Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday set ablaze the campaign office of  All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Barr. Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar in retaliation of the attack on President Goodluck Jonathan and vandalization of PDP billboards and posters in Bauchi

The Defence Headquarters website has been  hacked. The site defenceinfo.mil.ng was hacked into in the early hours of Friday. However,the Defence Headquarters' said its information blog site has been restored. According to a statement signed by Major Gen. Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence information, "The site was defaced at the front end. However,the hackers could not infiltrate the database of the site" "Preliminary investigation shows that the attack was from the end of the site's host. One Ima Sadiq who posed as the hacker has been knocked off and normal activities on the channel has resumed." "Apparently,the blog site was targeted because of its role as a major channel for disseminating information on military and security activities in the nation's counter-terrorism campaign",he said.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday made a surprise visit to the troubled northeast,which is in the grip of escalating Boko Haram violence that threatens next month's election. An AFP reporter in the Borno State capital,Maiduguri,said the president arrived in the city shortly before 3:00 pm(1400 GMT) and was met at the airport by the state governor Kashim Shettima. He was accompanied by the chief of defence staff,Air Marshal Alex Badeh,military top brass and the national security advisor as well as about 200 soldies. The visit-Jonathan's first to Maiduguri since March 2013-was shrouded in secrecy and came after a previous trip to the restive region in May last year was cancelled. Jonathan had planned to visit the remote town of Chibok,also in Borno,after Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from their school in a crime that shocked the world. The cancellation,reportedly for security reasons,dealt Jonathan a further blow in his perceived woeful handling of the kid...

Often have we heard the terms 'the common people', 'the man in the street',and 'people at the grassroots'. These terms are so commonly used nowadays that one is not exactly sure what the various speakers' mean in the different instances. What do these terms mean? Who is the common man? Let us approach the issue from this standpoint: if there are 'common people',then there should be others who are not common. If we take this logic a little further,we can reason that 'uncommon people' are not found in the street,and are not 'in the grassroots'. This line of reasoning would be difficult to sustain because we all use the streets; even those who regularly travel by air do walk along the streets. And,of course,no one ever lives at the level of 'grassroots'. The more rewarding approach is to consider the word 'common' as a term implying the generality of the people. This line of approach would suggest ...

2015 Glo CAF Awards: Toure floors Enyeama. •Buhari takes campaign to Jonathan's home base. •Jonathan dismisses MEND's endorsement of Buhari. •We never endorsed Buhari-ex-MEND Commanders. Deploy soldiers against B'Haram,not for elections- Buhari. I'm ready to die for Nigeria - Obasanjo Boko Haram torches houses in Baga

The United States Government has said there are no signs that Nigeria will disintegrate before,during or after the February general elections. While explaining that Nigeria is facing 'big challenges' the US Ambassador to Nigeria,Mr James Entwistle,stated that the promble at stake were surmountable. According to the American envoy,Nigerians should 'throw out of the window' the idea from 'some think-tank or somebody outside the (US) government' stating that Nigeria would fall apart in 2015. Entwistle spoke in Lagos on Thursday during an interactive session with journalists on the recent donation of a US naval ship,christened NNS Okpabana,to the Nigerian Navy. The US diplomat said,'I have been plagued by the question (on Nigeria's possible disintegration in 2015) and I have gone back to look and I can't find any government report that said Nigeria would disintegrate in 2015. Maybe some think-tank or somebody outside the government said it; I don't...

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Dear Great People of our nation, 1. I greet and felicitate with you all ad we enter the New Year today. As we mark the beginning of this New Year,2015, a new nation is being born. A new nation is beinb born because of the foundations we have all laid,working together for the good and progress of our dear fatherland. 2. I join you all in thanking God Almighty who has brought us this far,for continually Bestowing his Grace upon us and for guiding our great nation safety through all the challenges of the past year. 3. This year,as in the year past, I reaffirm my commitment to work to ensure a secure future for our dear country and the generations yet unborn. 4. Last year,we celebrated our hundredth year of nationhood. The year brought us further progress,challenges and fresh opportunities. 5. We have contended with the normal challenges of nation-building and the unusual challenges of terrorism. 6. But we have continued to vigorously confront those who seek to destroy the bonds of ...

All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential candidate Gen Muhammdu Buhari yesterday asked Nigerians not to lose hope because change is imminent in the country. He said 2015 is a year of change for the nation,which the forthcomi g elections would bring. Gen. Buhari listed a five-point change agenda which he would implent-if elected president. He pledged to change the nation's debilitating dependence on crude oil to earn revenue. Gen. Buhari,who explained the change he has envisioned for the nation in a New Year message,pledged to provide mass employment,adequate security,fight corruption,improve infrascptructure and good health care. A statement by Director of Communications Buhari Campaign Organisation,Mr. Dele Alake,said : "I have unshakeable faith that 2015 will be the year of change. Now some of you have asked me: what exactly does 'change' mean? "I have taken time to explain this at different opportunities,but on this special day, let me remind you in f...