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Nigeria is considering buying China's newly-certified C919 passenger jet, worth over $99 million or N42 billion.  The Minister of Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika, made the revelation at the United Nations aviation agency's triennial assembly in Montreal, Canada. Adding that the country's fledgling carrier Nigeria Air will have around 30 planes by 2025. Reuters reports that Sirika said the new airline would have a mixture of Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) planes, but added the carrier is also willing to look at the Chinese narrowbody jet, which Chinese regulators certified on Friday. He said;  "We haven't looked at that C919. But if it's as good as the others then why not.  "China and Nigeria (have a) very cordial and friendly relationship with mutual benefits."  Nigeria Air was one of President Muhammadu Buhari's election campaign pledges in 2015, and it now looks like the president will get the airline up and running after several years of plann...

Governor Ikpeazu of Abia state, has advised the federal government to have a dialogue with the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The governor told the Muhammadu Buhari led central government that it cannot win a battle of conscience through the court, Governor Ikpeazu who said he may not be Kanu's fan reiterated that his points about the alleged marginalisation of Igbo should be looked into. In his words,  “The federal government needs to sit down and discuss with Nnamdi Kanu and ask what can we do. We can stay at the table to listen to what he is saying.  "You can’t win a battle of conscience through the court. Do we need Nnamdi Kanu to tell us that there is no Igbo in the hierarchy of service chiefs in Nigeria?  "Do we need Nnamdi Kanu to tell us that Ndigbo is marginalized in Nigeria?  “Do we need Nnamdi Kanu to tell us that rice that was sold for N10k, now goes for N40k?"

- Asks Uzodinma to Account for N241 Billion LGA Funds, Loans  - Urges Buhari Never to Bow to Pressure  to Re-Commission a Complex Built 30 Years Ago By Sam Mbakwe The statement from Collins Opurozor, Imo state people’s Democratic party’s  Publicity Secretary reads, “ The People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State views Senator Hope Uzodinma's obsession with constantly seeking to bring President Mohammadu Buhari to Imo State to commission uncompleted projects or projects that have been in use for three decades as a ploy to always subject Nigeria's helmsman to public scorn. “The party holds that Uzodinma's announcement that the proposed presidential visit on Tuesday is for the purpose of commissioning the Owerri-Okigwe Road, which completion rate is still below 30%, and the Imo State House of Assembly Complex which was built by the iconic Sam Mbakwe in 1983, proves that the far-spent regime of Uzodinma still has nothing to show to Imo people as its achievement. “Our par...

The  President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Saturday said the United Kingdom under the late Queen Elizabeth stood by Nigeria during torrid times. He said the UK during the Civil War between 1967 and 1970 supported the unity of Nigeria, adding that the Queen visited the country twice before her demise. The President spoke during a condolence visit to the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, at her residence in Abuja on Saturday. He was represented by the Secretary to the Government to the Federation, Boss Mustapha. Buhari said, “We have maintained very close ties with the monarchy. She was a very gracious and elegant queen. For the purposes of remembrance, the fact is that 90 per cent of Nigerians do not know any monarch in the UK other than the queen. We welcome the new king and we look forward to a strong working relationship with the UK. “They have been a very strong ally even in the midst of our difficult time during the Biafran war; they stood for...

The right of choice and conscience is a God given right, the removal of History from our curriculum made referendum sound like war to many, whereas it is not alien to the Nigerian soil. The Ambazonian people, the today’s southern Cameroonians where part of the eastern at a time. They had over thirteen elected representatives in the then Eastern Nigerian house of Assembly in Enugu. Subsequently, it was the #Referendum of 1961 that they voted to join Cameron and North Cameron agreed to be part of Nigeria. This is where the PDP and APC political propaganda of Atiku Abubarka coming from Cameron is anchored, in the right sense, referendum made the presidential of Pdp a Nigerian. More Details  to follow.

Mr Ubani, the phenomenal writer and political analyst stressed on the current state of Governance, comparing it with the former, the Goodluck Ebele led government.  Nigeria has in recent times been at the lowest ebb of governance. We have been besetted with a leadership which lacks ideas, vision,  modern administrative reforms and the political will to turn around the economy of Nigeria positively, in continuity of the former Nigerian president, Dr Ebele Goodluck Jonathan administration reforms.  “ According to the International Transparency Index, Nigeria under the watch of Jonathan administration recorded the fastest growing economy in Africa, while in the world global index Nigeria was amongst the first 10th. This information can be verified. “Goodluck Jonathan carefully managed the Nigeria economy irrespective of the insecurity challenges which was politically motivated; it wouldn’t be a surprise if proper underground investigation is carried out and it rebounds to Bu...