At the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center on Tuesday, January 30, problems currently besetting the Nigerian state would be the topic of a panel discussion put together by the Atlantic Council.

Although the nation’s economy got considerable relief from the end of the nationwide strike occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy, the down side of it is the  dislocation that will affect  the 2012 budget implementation.

At the daily media briefing of the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C., Nigeria was on the front burner last week with Victoria Nuland, spokes person saying that Boko Haram is trying to rip the country apart.

With two Mormons in the Republican presidential race and one of them leading the pack, Mormons in the United States are fast bracing up to have their man in the White House.

Nigeria has lost substantial money from on-going nationwide strike in protest of the removal of fuel subsidy. BusinessWorld investigations show that seminars, meetings, training programmes that were hitherto scheduled to hold in various parts of the country were either taken to London, Ghana or South Africa depending on the interest of the organizers.

Nigeria has withdrawn as much as $2 billion in 2011 from its crude oil savings for various projects as well as devalues the naira to help support growth.

Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell as described democracy in Nigeria as a nominal democracy, existing only in name.

As the battle for presidential ticket gathers momentum in the Republican Party, a  well-funded group backing Mitt Romney accidentally posted a campaign ad that harshly attacks Newt Gingrich.