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The founder and General Overseer of Salvation Ministry, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has declared that anyone that has reached the age of 35 and is still unmarried is irresponsible. Pastor Ibiyeomie spoke when he addressed his congregants yesterday at the church headquarters in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The cleric admonished single men and women to look out for responsible men and women to be their partners, adding that it was not right to get old before getting married. He said, “If you are still single at 35, you are an irresponsible person,” adding that is it not the will God. He also charged young men and women to pray fervently before going into marriage relationship.

Former Edo State Governor, Adam Oshiomhole has called on the Federal government to allow each state control their resources in a bid to experience healthy competitions in the country. Speaking during an event at the colloquium organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Wednesday in Abuja, Oshiomhole spoke on the theme: “The Labour Movement and the Future of United Nigeria: What Role for Restructuring? He noted that there is no harm in encouraging state resources control. “If resources are transferred to each of the 36 states of the federation, those who want to grow can continue to grow, those who want to sleep and go slowly, let them do so. “Those who want to run as fast as lion should be allowed to run, that could lead to the competition that we should have,” he said.

South-South leaders on Thursday hit back at critics of President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, decrying what they called deliberate falsehoods, insinuations and outright distortions of facts by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their agents. At a meeting to assess the country’s democracy in Asaba, the leaders advanced arguments to counter accusations of non-performance. They said when the ruling party took over in 2015; Nigeria was about to be declared a failed state with its economy on the verge of collapse. “Once you are not part of the solution after 16 years, you will invariably become part of the problem.” Listing inflation, corruption, ethnic and religious intolerance, political brigandage, absence of electricity, politically motivated murders in the country, human trafficking and the drift towards dictatorship as the low points of the PDP government in 16 years, the le...

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a statement signed by its State Chairman, Chief (Dr.) Davies Ibiamu Ikanya and circulated by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze his Media Chief on Thursday expressed gladness and thanks to God Almighty for the victories of her candidates in their various cases in the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja that upheld the verdict of the electorates in Rivers State that voted overwhelmingly for our candidates by declaring Senator Andrew Uchendu of the All Progressive Congress(APC) as the rightful winner of the 2016 National Assembly Rerun for Rivers East Senatorial District. “With Uchendu’s victory who is a proven lawmaker, we are convinced that he will kick start the formal sack of Governor Nyesom Wike from the Brick House come 2019” Ikanya said. The party also appreciated the victories of Senator Magnus Abe representing the South East Senatorial District and all our members in the State House of Assembly and House of Repre...

The Forum members expressed their disagreement at a media briefing in Lagos, criticizing President Buhari’s speech, and insisting that Nigerian unity ought to be open to discussion and reformation. Members of the Southern Leaders Forum (SLF), a political group led by Afenifere Chieftain, Ayo Adebanjo, a former head of Nigeria’s Secret Service, Albert Horsfall, and former Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Joe Irukwu, have strongly disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari’s assertion that the unity of Nigeria has been settled. The Forum members expressed their disagreement at a media briefing in Lagos, criticizing President Buhari’s speech, and insisting that Nigerian unity ought to be open to discussion and reformation. Reacting to Mr. Buhari’s national broadcast on his return from a prolonged medical leave in Britain, the SLF described Nigeria as an unsettled country, which explained why numerous groups were agitating for independence. SLF also stated that the division exis...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and the Chairman of Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development, Senator Barnabas Gemade, on Thursday differed on contract mobilization fee for project implementation in the housing sector. Fashola had said during the 6th national council meeting on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, canvassed for an increase in mobilization fee to about 50 per cent. He said this became imperative to support small contractors and ensure Nigerians really experience genuine development in the sector. The minister said he had directed the legal department in the ministry to commence legal processes and recommendations to the National Assembly in order to meet up with the new demand. Fashola disclosed that the Federal Government mass housing project has commenced in 33 states to deliver 2,736 housing units. He noted that apart from the artisans, 653 contractors were engaged in the pilot scheme and a total of 54,680 p...

Financial experts have diagnosed plausible reasons for the steady depreciation of the nation’s currency in spite of series of interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria in the foreign exchange market. The experts said, in separate interviews on Wednesday in Lagos, that a single market rate, among others, was required to reverse the depreciating trend of the naira. The President, Association of Bureaux de Change Operators of Nigeria, Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, said an apparent devaluation of the interbank market rate was having a negative impact on the Naira. Gwadabe noted that investors were uncomfortable with the prevailing multiple rates in the market, adding that multiplicity of rates could engender currency speculation and round tripping. The expert also said that the demand for foreign exchange by pilgrims was putting the naira in difficulty. The ABCON chief urged the regulatory authorities to work towards achieving a single market rate. A financial expert and a ...