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May this first in the history CONFAB be a success! The apex body for Islamic organisations in the North, the Jama’atul Nasril Islam, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of having a hidden agenda with the convocation of the National Conference. The JNI, led by the Sultan  of Sokoto, Alhaji  Sa’ad Abubakar,  said despite the concerns expressed by well-meaning  Nigerians, the President had gone ahead to inaugurate the conference, in Abuja on Monday. It also said that Moslems were short-changed in the selection of delegates to the conference. The JNI’s Secretary-General, Dr. Khalid Aliyu, at a news conference on Wednesday in Kaduna, said no amount of conferences would solve the myriad of problems confronting Nigeria, except “when our leaders lead with justice and equity in the country.” He said the process of selecting delegates to the conference negated  the spirit of democracy as majority of delegates to the conference were Christians. According t...

FG, today, announced the cancellation of the recruitment exercise that  killed over 20 applicants at job screening centers across Nigeria. Minister of information, Labaran Maku who told reporters after  the weekly Federal Executive Council that a panel has been set up to conduct another recruitment exercise.  However, the minister did not say if anyone will be punished for the criminal conduct that led to the death of innocent jobseekers last Saturday.

Fuel scarcity, at least five vehicles were burnt this morning after fire gutted Mobil petrol station on Oba Akran Avenue/Akilo Road, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Eyewitnesses said fire engulfed the petrol station after an oil tanker trying to discharge fuel spilled its content and it caught fire. The incident paralysed traffic for several hours around Ogba, Agege and Ikeja. Huge balls of fire were seen while thick smoke billowed into the atmosphere for over three hours as fire fighters battled to put out the fire to no avail. The station was completely burnt. •Scene of the fire at Mobile filling station on Oba Akran Avenue/Akilo Road, Ikeja area of Lagos State this morning •Scene of the fire at Mobile filling station on Oba Akran Avenue/Akilo Road, Ikeja area of Lagos State this morning The incident happened hours after another fire disaster occurred at the Generator House of the Christ Embassy Church, Oregun area of the state. The fire at Mobil filling station started aro...

Asian military officials may be staging a mass cover-up over missing flight MH370, because they do not want to expose gaping holes within their countries' air defences, a leading aviation expert has suggested. The Malaysian Airlines jet went missing 1.30am on Sunday, March 9. But it was not until the following Tuesday that the Malaysian Air Force reported they had spotted the aircraft on radar over the Strait of Malacca at 2.15am. Now Thailand's military say they detected a plane at 1.28am, eight minutes after MH370's communications went down, heading towards the Strait but did not share the information because they were not asked for it. Intensive background checks on everyone aboard had turned up no-one else with a political or criminal motive to crash or hijack the plane. Writing on his blog, Aviation expert David Learmount said: 'Maybe these states’ air defences, like Malaysia’s, are not what they are cracked up to be. And maybe they wouldn’t want the res...

The long awaited conference has just been inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan at 5.06 p.m today the conference which has 492 delegates in attendance to deliberate on the future of Nigeria has formally kicked off. The conference holding at the National Judicial Institute in Abuja, will gulp N7billion. It comes up in the wake of the first century of the amalgamation of the southern and northern parts of the country by British colonialists and almost nine years after another conference was organised by the old regime, of Olusegun Obasanjo. more details soon,,,,,,

National confab: inauguration kicks off today, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has deployed emergency ambulances to the venue of the National Conference in Abuja. Mallam Sani Datti, Senior Information Officer of the agency, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the National Contingency Plan for Nigeria (NCP) instituted by NEMA would attend to any emergency at the conference. He said the plan was drawn from stakeholders in disaster management. Datti listed the stakeholders to include the Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigeria Red Cross Society, Federal Road Safety Commission, the police and other security agencies. According to Datti, the contingency plan was developed by NEMA to enable it to respond promptly and effectively to disasters. He said the plan was to enable NEMA to respond to disasters through a standard guideline for minimum response. Mean while, FG has reiterate its restriction on delegates deliber...

The rate of unemployment in this country is alarming, the number of people gathered for immigration exams today in Abuja calls for effort from the government to reduce unemployment. Not less than 7 people were killed and dozens injured in Nigeria’s capital after thousands of panicked job-seekers stampeded during a government recruitment drive in the national stadium on Saturday. I was told the exam questions also linked. One witness said the stampede broke out as applicants surged towards a central stage. They said only one entrance to the 60,000-capacity stadium was open. It wasn’t clear how many people were inside at the time of the crush. “The immigration service was having a recruitment exercise at the stadium … there was a stampede and they brought the victims to the national hospital,” said hospital spokesman Tayo Haastrup. Many injured people could not be admitted to hospital due to lack of capacity. What a country?